# Top 50 Web3 Startup Investors in Asia in October 2023 ## Hashed - Type: VC Fund - Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea - Relevant deals: 21 - 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. ## Kenetic - Type: VC Fund - Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 18 - 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. ## Fenbushi Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China - Relevant deals: 17 - 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. ## Node Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Beijing, Beijing, China - Relevant deals: 17 - Stages: Initial Coin Offering, Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Internet, Information Technology Node Capital is a venture capital company focusing on blockchain industry. It is also one of the world’s earliest professional investment institutions of blockchain industry layouts. Node Capital aims to connection every node of blockchain industry by project investment and cooperation, thus building industry ecosystem, and promote healthy andstable development of blockchain industry. So far, Node Capital has invested many projects of blockchain industry, such as news information, digital asset transactions, storage, technology development and application. Including enterprises such as Huobi, Coldlar, Bocheninc, fengwo, Jinse Finance , Lianshang Technology, Yulian, Qukuai Leida. ## LD Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China - Relevant deals: 15 - 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. ## AlphaCoin Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet AlphaCoin Fund is a venture capital focused on investing blockchain technology and tokens. Since 2017, AlphaCoin has invested in over 80 leading blockchain technology projects both home and abroad, with a total investment amount in exceed of 90 million USD. Our investment team consists of professionals from backgrounds covering traditional andcrypto venture capital investing, blockchain technology and crypto exchange operations. AlphaCoin Fund has founded strategic partnerships with both top-tier venture capital institutions such as Zhen Fund, Sequoia Capital, Danhua Capital, etc and service providers . With its connections in the blockchain industry, AlphaCoin Fund has been long dedicated to building an orbicular industry chain with its partners, so as to provide value-added services such as technology assistance, business development advising, marketing, partnership building and exchange listing consulting. ## Animoca Brands - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 14 - 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. ## Alameda Research - Type: VC Fund - Location: Central and Western, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 13 - 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. ## FBG Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Beijing, Beijing, China - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services FBG Capital is a digital asset management firm in blockchain-based capital market. ## Coinbase Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 13 - 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. ## AU21 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space ## ZBS CAPITAL - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services ZBS Capital - distinguished crypto venture fund, backed by major media resources including CryptoDiffer. ## Infinity Ventures Crypto - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency Who we are We are investors and entrepreneurs helping define the next generation of Blockchain startups. Our Focus Passionate founders. Disruptive models. Borderless markets. Exponential effects. Our Geography Starting from... ## 8 Decimal Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services 8 Decimal Capital is a multi-strategy investment firm focused on both token and equity investment. We currently have more than 30 portfolio companies, and an AUM of 60M USD. Our investment team consists of more than 10 venture capital veterans, researchers, and trading professionals. We thematically invest in core infrastructure layer projects thataddress security, scalability, and privacy, provide a full suite of post-investment value-add to our portfolio companies. ## The Spartan Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services We advise, invest and build with the best entrepreneurs in Web3. ## Signum Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 11 - 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. ## HashKey Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology HashKey Capital is an investment firm. ## LuneX Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology LuneX Ventures is a spin-out from Singapore based VC firm Golden Gate Ventures. LuneX has a global mandate to invest exclusively in high-growth blockchain companies and cryptocurrency assets. Founded by Golden Gate’s former Head of Growth, Kenrick Drijkoningen. ## SNZ Holding - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology SNZ Holding was founded by a group of engineers, blockchain evangelists. ## Multicoin Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Austin, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 10 - 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. ## Morningstar Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 10 - 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. ## Hashkey - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 10 - 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. ## Genblock Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance. ## DHVC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 10 - 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. ## Sky9 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology Sky9 Capital is a leading venture capital fund dedicated to supporting disruptive technologies and outstanding innovators to drive change and create positive impact for society, the environment and individual lives. Sky9 Capital team includes senior experts, entrepreneurs, and experienced investors from diverse backgrounds. Since 2011, the team hasmanaged a number of USD and RMB funds, whose total assets under management of nearly USD 2 billion. ## Pantera Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 9 - 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. ## SevenX Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology SevenX Ventures is a Research-driven Crypto Venture Capital founded in 2020. ## Mechanism Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 9 - 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. ## Sandeep Nailwal - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 9 - 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. ## Frees Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Beijing, Beijing, China - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Health Care By adopting revolutionary mechanisms, FREES FUND is devoted to change the long-established rules in the venture capital. By leveraging the cutting-edge technologies and resources, FREES FUND aims at investing in great startups and helping them grow into great enterprises that are valuable to our society. We mainly invest in early-stagestartups, and hope to become their first-round institutional investor. Our primary interested areas are broad-sense TMT (Technology, Media, Telecom), B2B and deep technology. ## Youbi Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Grand Cayman, Midland, Cayman Islands - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software We invest in world-class solutions designed to create a sustainable and inclusive web3 infrastructure ## Mirana Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming We invest in projects and funds. Our Partners have built multiple organizations including: Windranger Labs, BitDAO, Dekrypt Capital... ## ArkStream Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Grand Cayman, Midland, Cayman Islands - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology Read writing from ArkStream Capital on Medium. Crypto-native web3 venture fund. Accelerate the decentralization on ARK. Every day, ArkStream Capital and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium. ## Shima Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - 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. ## Block Dream Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Financial Services OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high quality projects. This fund will invest in blockchain basic infrastructure, layer 2, Polkadot ecosystem, Defi, Filecoin ecosystem etc. ## Fundamental Labs - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Information Technology, Software A Web3 specialized VC fund, investing in the fundamental innovations that reshape the economy and the society. ## Spark Digital Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Established in 2017, Spark Digital Capital is an NY based family office that invests in Blockchain-enabled companies. They firmly believe in a future where blockchain not only plays a significant role in the world but also creates unlimited efficiencies and opportunities to the society and people’s lives. With their teams' strong finance andtechnology background they aim to bring blockchain into prosperity. ## Ceyuan Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile Ceyuan Ventures is a Beijing-based early stage venture capital firm focused on IT and emerging growth companies. They emphasize backing great teams, technology and business innovation. Their mission is to assist entrepreneurs in creating and building world-class businesses. ## Kosmos Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology Enabling multi-chain future with core infrastructure and innovative dapps ## Global Founders Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel. ## QF Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software QF Capital is a fund management company that focuses on private equity investments. ## Incuba Alpha - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency Incuba Alpha is a crypto fund derived from Japan with focus on early entrepreneurs in Decentralized Finance (Defi), DAO, and Web3. ## Waterdrip Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology Waterdrip capital invests in blockchain industries. ## Rarestone Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Software Accelerating the acceptance and adoption of decentralized technologies that will create a positive societal impact. ## Mask Network - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Your Portal To The New, Open Internet. ## CMT Digital Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - 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 ## Balaji Srinivasan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - 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. ## LedgerPrime - Type: VC Fund - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - 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. ## Primitive Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Primitive Ventures is a global venture investment firm with a focus on blockchain and related technologies. At Primitive, we're proudly thesis-free, and instead spend all of their waking hours finding and supporting the people building truly valuable things. ## Digital Currency Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stamford, Connecticut, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - 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. # 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