# Pantera Capital

> Pantera Capital is a VC fund backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 341 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 341
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 48%
- Last fund: Mar 2025
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/pantera-capital
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/PanteraCapital
- Website: http://panteracapital.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/panteracapital/

Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$19M |
| Series A | $5.5M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 124 | 36% |
| Cryptocurrency | 72 | 21% |
| Financial Services | 56 | 16% |
| FinTech | 40 | 12% |
| Software | 38 | 11% |

143 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 99 | 29% |
| Series A | 73 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 32 | 9% |
| Series B | 22 | 6% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 13 | 4% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 106 | 31% |
| Singapore | 12 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 11 | 3% |
| Hong Kong | 6 | 2% |
| South Korea | 5 | 1% |

32 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cosmo Jiang | General Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cosmo-jiang |
| Harsehaj Singh | Investment Associate | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harsehaj-singh-fc6a |
| Brody West | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brody-west |
| Chia Jeng Yang | Investor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chia-jeng-yang |
| Dan Morehead | Founder , Co-Chief Investment Officer & CEO | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-morehead |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| World Foundation | World Foundation is a memberless, non-profit foundation that stewards the World Network and its proof-of-personhood infrastructure. It focuses on advancing digital equity and decentralized internet trust by supporting privacy-preserving identity, blockchain, and financial protocols. The foundation administers community grant programs, allocatesresources to third-party developers, and manages key intellectual property for the World ecosystem. Through affiliated entities, it helps coordinate deployment of the World Chain blockchain and the distribution mechanics of the WLD token. World Foundation also works with technical contributors such as Tools for Humanity to support biometric verification via the Orb and related services. Over time, it is tasked with guiding protocol governance, token mechanisms, and community processes toward more decentralized, community-led control. | $52.5M |  | Jul 25, 2026 |  |
| Orthogonal | Orthogonal develops medical device software enabling connected healthcare solutions and improved patient outcomes. | $4.3M | Seed | Jun 22, 2026 |  |
| TurboFlow | TurboFlow is an on-chain trading ecosystem that combines perpetual contracts and prediction markets into one retail-friendly platform. It positions itself as making sophisticated trading simple, fair, and accessible. | $6M | Seed | Jun 22, 2026 |  |
| Four Pillars | Four Pillars offers facilities for creating web3 with cutting-edge web3 trends. |  | Series A | Apr 27, 2026 |  |
| OpenFX | OpenFX is redefining the future of global money movement. We enable money to flow across borders as effortlessly as data, unbound by time zones, legacy systems, or banking hours. Our FX infrastructure transforms how finance teams operate, delivering cross-border transfers with industry-leading spreads, real-time settlement and 24/7availability. We are a team of serial entrepreneurs from Affirm, BofA, Charles Schwab, Goldman Sachs, Intuit, JPM, Kraken, Microsoft, Meta, PayPal, and Slack. | $94M | Series A | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| Nitra | Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products. | $50M | Series B | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Based | Payment protocol for Web 3.0 | $11.5M | Series A | Feb 22, 2026 |  |
| Novig | Novig is a sports prediction platform where users participate in peer-to-peer wagering on sporting events using dual currencies. It enables participants to propose or accept odds directly with one another, access real-time market data, and engage in prediction markets rather than betting against a traditional house model. Users interact through itsmobile app, making selections with free-to-play tokens or staking redeemable tokens for chances to earn cash prizes under a sweepstakes framework. The platform also offers transparent order books and tools for managing wagers, and it supports customer assistance through in-app help and support channels. | $75M | Series B | Feb 18, 2026 |  |
| Doppler | Doppler is a blockchain protocol enabling developers to launch token markets with built-in price discovery and liquidity tools. | $9M | Seed | Jan 29, 2026 |  |
| Whetstone Research | Whetstone Research is dedicated to the design and development of innovative protocols that facilitate the advancement of on-chain markets. | $9M | Seed | Jan 28, 2026 |  |

10 of 341 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 51 deals together
- [Digital Currency Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-currency-group) — VC Fund, 43 deals together
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- [The Spartan Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-spartan-group-4202) — VC Fund, 24 deals together
- [Alameda Research](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alameda-research) — VC Fund, 22 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Pantera Capital invest in?

Pantera Capital invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 341 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 Pantera Capital's check size?

Pantera Capital typically joins rounds of $2M–$19M at Seed and $5.5M–$50M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Pantera Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Pantera Capital?

Public channels for Pantera Capital 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 Pantera Capital?

The team at Pantera Capital includes Cosmo Jiang (General Partner), Harsehaj Singh (Investment Associate) and Brody West (Principal), among 19 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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