# NYDIG

> NYDIG is a VC fund in New York backing Bitcoin and Blockchain. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 45%
- Fund size: $50M
- Last fund: Nov 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nydig/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/NYDIG_BTC
- Website: https://nydig.com/

NYDIG is a technology and financial services firm dedicated to Bitcoin for institutions, private clients, and banks. The firm offers asset management, derivatives, financing, custody, and execution services. NYDIG's platform satisfies the highest regulatory, audit, and governance standards.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for NYDIG. Shizune tracks 14 team members at NYDIG. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/nydig?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $4M–$15M |
| Series A | $2.5M–$25M |
| Post-IPO Debt | $17M–$108M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bitcoin | 8 | 36% |
| Blockchain | 8 | 36% |
| Cryptocurrency | 7 | 32% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 32% |
| FinTech | 5 | 23% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 32% |
| Series A | 4 | 18% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 4 | 18% |
| Series B | 3 | 14% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 41% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 14% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Austria | 1 | 5% |
| Australia | 1 | 5% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Langel | Chief Technology Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-langel |
| Charles Ridley | Software Engineer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-ridley |
| Greg Cipolaro | Global Head of Research | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-cipolaro |
| Jon Gaskell | Director Business Development - Financial Services | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jon-gaskell |
| Lauren Minches | Platform Solutions | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lauren-minches |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rightbrain | Rightbrain enables B2B agencies, recruiters, and professional services firms to deploy AI agents instantly without undergoing expensive digital transformations. Rightbrain is a software bridge that embeds AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google directly into your existing tools like CRMs or Google Workspace, allowing teams to use AI withoutchanging their workflows. | $4M | Seed | May 19, 2026 |  |
| Unblock | Unblock is a climate technology company that offers a solution to mitigate emissions. | $13.5M | Seed | Jul 08, 2025 |  |
| JAN3 | JAN3's mission is to accelerate hyperbitcoinization. Bitcoin will fix the world. | $5M | Seed | Jan 03, 2025 |  |
| Unchained | Bitcoin cold storage and financial services that put you in control of your keys. Our suite of financial services include multisig vaults, a trading desk, bitcoin-backed loans, and bitcoin IRAs. No matter your experience with bitcoin, our team of bitcoin experts will help you get set up with confidence. | $60M | Series B | Apr 18, 2023 |  |
| Vulcan Infrastructure | Greenidge is a 106MW natural gas power plant and blockchain mining facility. Greenidge Generation has been transformed into a power plant for the twenty-first century. In January 2020, Greenidge launched the first phase of a data center for blockchain mining. Greenidge was established in 1937 and is based in Dresden, New York, United States. | $74M | Post-IPO Debt | Dec 20, 2022 |  |
| Argo Blockchain | Argo is a publicly-traded blockchain technology company focused on large-scale cryptocurrency mining. It specializes in the use of renewable sources of power to support the growth and development of blockchain technologies. | $71M | Post-IPO Debt | May 04, 2022 |  |
| Impervious.ai | Developer of Bitcoin’s third programmatic layer, Impervious.ai enables applications to utilize peer-to-peer streaming technology to circumvent intermediaries and harness censorship-resistant data transmission channels within their technology stacks.The company provides an API that allows any developer to build on the Bitcoin Lightning Network.The company's Dynamic VPN allows parties to securely send and receive information from behind hostile networks and denied access areas. |  | Seed | Apr 14, 2022 |  |
| Coinpanion | Coinpanion makes investing in digital assets such as cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and DeFi products as easy as investing in stocks with ETFs. | $4M | Seed | Apr 12, 2022 |  |
| Lightning Labs | Lightning Labs is building the next generation of decentralized, resilient financial infrastructure. We believe systems based on cryptography, blockchains, and smart contracts will enhance financial cooperation around the world in unprecedented ways at scales both large and small. We have developed Lightning Network Daemon (lnd) the most advancedand most developer-friendly implementation of the Lightning Network protocol. Along with Neutrino, an open platform that enables users with mobile devices to conduct blockchain and Lightning Network transactions quickly and easily. We’re hiring. See our open positions: http://lightning.engineering/careers.html Get involved: http://dev.lightning.community/ | $70M | Series B | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| IREN | IREN is a Bitcoin mining company that builds, owns, and operates data center infrastructure with a focus on entry into regions where it can access abundant and/or under-utilized renewable energy to power its operations. Iris Energy strives to support local communities, as well as the decarbonization of energy markets and the global Bitcoinnetwork. | $71M | Post-IPO Debt | Mar 28, 2022 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [TVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trammell-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Ecliptic Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ecliptic-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Kingsway Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kingsway-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Starting Line](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/starting-line) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Stronghold Resource Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stronghold-resource-partners-6387) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ten31](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ten31) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does NYDIG invest in?

NYDIG invests primarily in Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is NYDIG's check size?

NYDIG typically joins rounds of $4M–$15M at Seed, $2.5M–$25M at Series A and $17M–$108M at Post-IPO Debt. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds NYDIG participates in.

### How do I contact NYDIG?

Public channels for NYDIG include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at NYDIG?

The team at NYDIG includes Brian Langel (Chief Technology Officer), Charles Ridley (Software Engineer) and Greg Cipolaro (Global Head of Research), among 14 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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