# Top 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in United States in May 2026

## Coinbase Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 55
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

## Digital Currency Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stamford, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 52
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

## Polychain
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 48
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

The emergence of bitcoin and subsequent blockchain technologies has generated a new digital asset class in which scarcity is based on mathematical properties. Through cryptographic verification and game-theoretic equilibrium, blockchain-based digital assets can be created, issued, and transmitted using the software. Polychain Capital is committedto exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.

## Blockchain Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 47
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Partners to crypto builders since 2013.

## Pantera Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 44
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

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.

## Multicoin Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 32
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets. 

## Electric Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 29
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Building the future of Web3. We invest in the next generation of iconic founders.

## Arrington XRP Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 29
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Arrington Capital is a thesis-driven firm investing in digital assets and Web3 since 2017

## Fenbushi Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 29
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

Fenbushi Capital is the first and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firm in Asia. Founded in Shanghai in 2015 by veterans across both blockchain and traditional financial industries, it has to date supported over 80 leading projects across 4 continents leveraging blockchain technology to reshape myriad industries such as finance,healthcare, supply chain, and consumer goods. Fenbushi’s mission is to drive healthy and sustainable growth in the global blockchain ecosystem, and actively works as a long-term strategic partner to its portfolio projects.

## CoinFund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 27
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

CoinFund is where web3 capable meets web3 capital: cryptonative technologists who invest in the future before it's a trend.

## Animoca Brands
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

## Hashed
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.

## Shima Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting cutting-edge blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

## Galaxy Digital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and individuals shape a changing economy.

## SVA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven ourstrategy. They are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

## Paradigm
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech

Paradigm is an investment firm focused on supporting the great crypto/Web3 companies and protocols of tomorrow. Our approach is flexible, long term, multi-stage, and global. We often get involved at the earliest stages of formation and support our portfolio with additional capital over time.

## Lemniscap
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Lemniscap is an early stage investment firm specializing in investments in emerging crypto assets.

## Framework Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

A crypto venture firm that builds with our founders.

## CMT Digital Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

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CMT Digital is a blockchain and digital assets focused subsidiary of the CMT Group, a 24 year-old trading and investments firm. The CMT Group has operated as a valued partner to entrepreneurs, traders, and technologists

## Alameda Research
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Central and Western, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong.

## Hashkey
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Hashkey they offers investment opportunities and solutions to institutions, family offices, funds, and professional accredited investors across the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem.

## Kenetic
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Kenetic is a proprietary trading and VC investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain related companies. They have developed technology to facilitate their quantitative trading strategies and offer various digital asset related structured products to counterparts.

## Dragonfly
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

A cross-border cryptoasset investment firm. Global from day one.

## Robot Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Robot Ventures is a (pre-)seed investor in fintech / crypto companies with big ambitions and contrarian worldviews.

## Distributed Global
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Distributed Global is an investment firm focusing on the blockchain and digital asset ecosystem. The venture capital invests on cryptocurrencies and blockchain based companies.

## CMS Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

CMS is a principal investment company that focuses on investing in the crypto-asset ecosystem. The firm plans to invest in both liquid and illiquid crypto tokens, as well as equity interests in select businesses.

## The Spartan Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

We advise, invest and build with the best entrepreneurs in Web3.

## DHVC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Information Technology

DHVC is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, that invests in Enterprise, Consumer, FinTech, and Healthcare companies. 

## Solana Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Solana, Misamis Oriental, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 19
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Solana Ventures' mission is to accelerate the growth of the Solana blockchain and adjacent ecosystems by providing capital to the most promising teams building in the crypto ecosystem.

## Dapper Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.

## ParaFi Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

ParaFi Capital is an alternative investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance markets.

## Alumni Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

## Polygon
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Polygon is the most proven way to build and scale your decentralized application and projects on Ethereum, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem.

## Collab+Currency
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Eugene, Oregon, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Collab+Currency is a crypto-focused venture fund that backs early-stage projects developing the next generation of financial infrastructure, culture, and human organization.

## 6th Man Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

6th Man Ventures is an early stage crypto VC firm investing in web3 applications & infrastructure6MV was born from a love of web3 in practice and principle, founded and run by a group who both see the potential and actively work to bring projects to life every day. That makes us incredible partners to have on your journey.6th Man Ventureswas established in March 2021 in New York, United States.

## Slow Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care

Slow Ventures is a community built on the collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.

## Mechanism Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Gaming

Mechanism Capital is an investment firm that invests in the cryptocurrency industry with a focus on decentralized finance or DeFi.

## MetaStable Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Dragonfly backs your favorite crypto projects. Global from day one.

## Naval Ravikant
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Blockchain

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.

## 1confirmation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Supporting teams fueling the decentralization of the web and society

## Draper Associates
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.

## Kosmos Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

Enabling multi-chain future with core infrastructure and innovative dapps

## gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

gCC (gumi Cryptos Capital) is a blockchain and cryptographic asset fund that invests in the crypto native stack from L1 to the application layer, as well as in traditional businesses supporting the ecosystem.

## Hypersphere Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Hypersphere Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in and develops blockchain technology. A Hypersphere is an investment group leveraging on-chain treasuries, decentralized organizations, and governance to increase the utility of the blockchain networks in which we invest.

## Orange DAO
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Private Equity
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

## Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies.Lightspeed Venture Partners invests invarious sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social. It mainly invests in countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India.

## Kindred Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Supporting world-changing startups and the kindred spirits who create them.

## Galaxy Interactive
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games

Play the Future. Galaxy Interactive is a leading sector-focused VC investing in interactive entertainment, at the intersection of content, social, finance and technology.

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