# Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in May 2026 ## Coinbase Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 84 - 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. ## Polychain - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 63 - 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. ## Digital Currency Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stamford, Connecticut, United States - Relevant deals: 55 - 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. ## Shima Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 47 - 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. ## Pantera Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 46 - 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. ## Animoca Brands - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 44 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency Animoca Brands, a Deloitte Tech Fast winner and ranked in the Financial Times list of High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021, is a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification that is working to advance digital property rights and contribute to the establishment of an open metaverse. The company develops and publishes a broadportfolio of products including the REVV token and SAND token; original games including The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes; and products utilizing popular intellectual properties including Disney, WWE, Snoop Dogg, The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Formula E. It has multiple subsidiaries, including The Sandbox, Blowfish Studios, Quidd, GAMEE, nWay, Pixowl, Forj, Lympo, Grease Monkey Games, Eden Games, Darewise Entertainment, Notre Game, and TinyTap. Animoca Brands has a growing portfolio of more than 340 investments, including Colossal, Axie Infinity, OpenSea, Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot), Yield Guild Games, Harmony, Alien Worlds, Star Atlas, and others. For more information visit www.animocabrands.com. ## Dragonfly - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 42 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services A cross-border cryptoasset investment firm. Global from day one. ## Balaji Srinivasan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 42 - 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. ## Andreessen Horowitz - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 42 - 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. ## Electric Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 39 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Building the future of Web3. We invest in the next generation of iconic founders. ## Alameda Research - Type: VC Fund - Location: Central and Western, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 38 - 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. ## Fenbushi Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China - Relevant deals: 37 - 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. ## The Spartan Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 37 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services We advise, invest and build with the best entrepreneurs in Web3. ## Orange DAO - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 36 - 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 ## Paradigm - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 36 - 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. ## GSR - Type: VC Fund - Location: Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 36 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services GSR is the global leader in crypto trading and market-making. We specialize in providing liquidity, trading and risk management solutions. ## Multicoin Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Austin, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 36 - 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. ## Blockchain Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 35 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Partners to crypto builders since 2013. ## Lemniscap - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 34 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Lemniscap is an early stage investment firm specializing in investments in emerging crypto assets. ## Hashed - Type: VC Fund - Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea - Relevant deals: 33 - 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. ## LD Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China - Relevant deals: 29 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming LD Capital is one of Asia's earliest organizations focusing on value investing in blockchain field. Owing to industrial resource advantages and professional investment research teams, LD Capital has successively discovered and invested in projects such as Qtum, Vechain and Eos which all achieved over 100 times return.Their teams spread overChina, the United States, Europe, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, and have accumulated rich experience in areas of traditional internet, Fintech, and advanced blockchain technology. They are committed to the globalization of blockchain and quality investment in the entire industry.LD Capital focuses on blockchain innovation projects within finance, games, content publishing, Internet of Things and other circuits, and we have been propelling broad layout of blockchain technology and infrastructure construction to facilitate the comprehensive development of the global blockchain ecosystem. ## Galaxy Digital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 29 - 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. ## CMT Digital Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 28 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech An exciting new iteration of our website is coming soon. 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 ## Kenetic - Type: VC Fund - Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 28 - 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. ## LedgerPrime - Type: VC Fund - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 28 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services LedgerPrime is a quantitative and systematic investment firm in the Digital Asset space. With a data centric approach and a commitment to rapid innovation and technology, LedgerPrime seeks to become a global leader in generating sustained and superior risk-adjusted returns. ## Framework Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 27 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software A crypto venture firm that builds with our founders. ## Robot Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 27 - 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. ## 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. ## ParaFi Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Greenwich, Connecticut, United States - Relevant deals: 26 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech ParaFi Capital is an alternative investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance markets. ## Signum Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 26 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology They are a Singapore-based firm that exclusively consults in Blockchain-enabled companies. Their mission is to realize the future of Blockchain economy by consulting in game changing projects and companies. They participate in Pre-sale stages of Token Generation Events and Equity investments. ## CMS Holdings - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 26 - 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. ## Wintermute - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 26 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Custom meta description ## FBG Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Beijing, Beijing, China - Relevant deals: 25 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services FBG Capital is a digital asset management firm in blockchain-based capital market. ## Blockchain Founders Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 25 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications. ## Sandeep Nailwal - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 25 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering. ## Hashkey - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 24 - 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. ## ZBS CAPITAL - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 24 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services ZBS Capital - distinguished crypto venture fund, backed by major media resources including CryptoDiffer. ## Big Brain Holdings - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 23 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming Big Brain Holdings is Focused on Investing in Solana projects that have strong potential. ## Arrington XRP Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 23 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Arrington Capital is a thesis-driven firm investing in digital assets and Web3 since 2017 ## Lightspeed Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 23 - 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. ## Castle Island Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 23 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech Castle Island Ventures is a Cambridge, MA based early stage venture firm investing in startups building in the public blockchain industry. ## Mirana Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 23 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Gaming We invest in projects and funds. Our Partners have built multiple organizations including: Windranger Labs, BitDAO, Dekrypt Capital... ## Fabric Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 23 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Fabric backs the founders of the Open Economy. Investing in builders, businesses, and networks from inception to scaling since 2012. ## HashKey Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 23 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology HashKey Capital is an investment firm. ## 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. Our experience spans from helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe scale. Over the last 30 years of early-stage investing, our core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with our founder-first approachhave driven our strategy. We are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. We support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging our network to help them propel their businesses forward. ## gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC) - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 22 - 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. ## Hack VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 22 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Hack VC is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the cryptocurrency, fintech, and marketplaces sectors. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. ## 1kx - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 22 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech 1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth. ## Morningstar Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 22 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming We are a proprietary investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology, primarily focused on the Elrond Ecosystem. ## Digital Finance Group (DFG) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 21 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech Digital Finance Group (DFG) is a global blockchain and cryptocurrency investment firm. DFG was founded in 2015 and has assets under management of over $1 billion. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co