Best VCs for It

$1M-$100M+ (from $2.5B+ American Dynamism fund)

#2Katherine Boyle

General Partner, American Dynamism

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Leads a16z's American Dynamism practice — a $2.5B+ fund (expanded from $600M in 2023) backing companies that support national interests. Believes the most important companies of the next decade will b

$1M-$100M+ (multi-stage, also invests personally and through Thiel Capital)

#3Peter Thiel

Co-Founder & Partner

Founders Fund

The original contrarian VC. 'We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.' Seeks companies that can become category-defining monopolies in markets others ignore. First principles thinking is

$1M-$100M+ (leads a16z's $1.25B+ infrastructure fund)

#4Martin Casado

General Partner

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Leads a16z's infrastructure practice and is one of Silicon Valley's most technically credible VCs, having built VMware NSX and pioneered software-defined networking. Invests 'from markets in' rather t

#5Sharif Hossain

Founder

Kryptos (Bangladesh)

Building blockchain education and investment infrastructure in Bangladesh, focused on developing the local crypto ecosystem and developer community.

#6Mike Dudas

Angel / Writer

Crypto media veteran turned investor and advisor. Deep understanding of crypto narratives, community building, and go-to-market strategies.

#7Sarah Tavel

Venture Partner

Benchmark

Sarah's investing worldview is built on a few interlocking beliefs: (1) The best consumer companies create compounding engagement loops where users do MORE over time, not less. She formalized this int

$5M-$15M

Series ASeries B

#8Matt Shakhovskoy

Director, Ventures

Mercy Corps Ventures (Web3)

Investing in blockchain and digital finance for emerging markets development at Mercy Corps Ventures. Focused on crypto solutions for financial inclusion and humanitarian applications.

#9Shailesh Shakya

President

Nepal Blockchain Association

Developing blockchain infrastructure and community in Nepal, focused on education and awareness as foundations for future blockchain adoption.

#10Nikhil Hira

Managing Director

Pacific Blockchain Fund

Investing in blockchain projects across the Pacific Islands and Oceania region, focused on financial inclusion and digital infrastructure for island nations.

GrantSeedGovernment Partnership

#11Stacy Herbert

Director

El Salvador Bitcoin Office

Focused on Bitcoin-centric economic development in El Salvador, working on the country's Bitcoin adoption and Bitcoin-backed financial infrastructure.

#12Karim Badr

MENA Lead

HBAR Foundation (MENA)

Building the Hedera ecosystem in the MENA region through HBAR Foundation grants and investments. Focused on enterprise blockchain adoption in the Arab world.

GrantPre-seedSeed

#13Dirk Klee

CEO Bitcoin Suisse

Bitcoin Suisse Ventures

Leading digital asset investment and custody services at Bitcoin Suisse Ventures, focused on the Swiss and European crypto ecosystem.

$1M-$100M+ (multi-stage, BVP has $3.6B+ under management)

#14William Chan

Managing Director

CMBI (CMB International)

Investing in digital assets and blockchain projects at CMBI (CMB International), focused on bridging Chinese institutional capital with global crypto opportunities.

Series ASeries BGrowth

#15Byron Deeter

Partner

Bessemer Venture Partners

The cloud computing investor. His annual 'State of the Cloud' report is the definitive industry reference for cloud/SaaS metrics. Bessemer's 'Cloud Atlas' benchmarking tool is used by thousands of Saa

#16Noyes Harrigan

Principal

Framework Ventures

Investing in DeFi and crypto infrastructure at Framework Ventures. Focuses on protocols that expand the design space of decentralized finance.

No personal check-size range is published. The official profile's aggregate fund-raising figure and public financing announcements describe firm resources and transactions, not Chris's individual authority or a reliable minimum/maximum check.

#17Chris Dixon

Founder, Managing Partner

a16z crypto

Chris invests behind blockchains as a new computing and ownership primitive for the internet. His core thesis is that token-enabled networks can align builders, users, and owners; bootstrap network ef

SeedEarly StageGrowth

#18Andrus Aaslaid

Managing Partner

Tera Ventures

Investing in early-stage tech and blockchain startups in the Baltics through Tera Ventures, leveraging Estonia's leading digital governance expertise.

#19Torbjørn Bull Jenssen

CEO

Arcane Crypto

Investing in Bitcoin-focused and crypto infrastructure projects in the Nordics. Strong conviction in Bitcoin as the foundational crypto asset.

#20Alexander Nazarov

Co-founder

Hash CIB

Investing in crypto infrastructure and digital assets through Hash CIB, one of Russia/CIS's most established crypto financial firms.

#21Cristian Gil

Head of Investments

GSR Markets

Leading crypto market making and trading operations at GSR Markets, with a strategic investment arm backing infrastructure and DeFi projects.

SeedSeries AFund Investment

#22Areije Al Shakar

Director

Al Waha Fund of Funds

Investing in regional funds and startups through Al Waha Fund of Funds, supporting the Bahrain fintech and blockchain ecosystem as a gateway to the Gulf.

#23Dhammika Seneviratne

Co-founder

Lanka Blockchain Fund

Investing in blockchain and digital finance in Sri Lanka, focused on leveraging blockchain for economic development and financial infrastructure modernization.

No current ALPS check size is publicly disclosed. Laura's September 2026 criteria specify Pre-Seed to Seed companies valued below $30M; that is a valuation ceiling and stage filter, not a stated check range.

#24Laura K. Inamedinova

General Partner

ALPS Capital

Laura currently backs institution-grade financial-market infrastructure for digital assets and AI as TradFi moves onchain. Her stated targets include payments, stablecoins, clearing and settlement, tr

No current personal angel check range is public. Historical Northzone deals ranged from pre-seed through growth, but firm-level third-party range estimates do not establish Deepka's present allocation. Founders should ask directly about current angel activity and should use Northzone's live team for fund pitches.

#25Deepka Rana

Former Principal, Northzone; Angel Investor

Northzone (Web3)

At Northzone, Deepka focused on product-led consumer and B2B software, with a particularly developed Future of Work thesis. She argued that structurally scarce frontline labor and obsolete tools creat

Current occasional angel investingHistorical pre-seedHistorical seed and Series A

#26Lukas Kristen

General Partner

Plutos Capital

Lukas backs deeply technical founders building sovereign, privacy-enabling infrastructure across blockchain, AI and dual-use systems. His central claim is that institutions need the openness, neutral

$250K–$500K stated first-check range in a current @FryCookVC public post, with 'no matter how early' guidance. Plutos describes investing from pre-seed through Series A across equity and token rounds. Confirm currency, ownership, reserves and whether the range applies to the Genesis Fund before relying on it.

No reliable personal check range or current Blockchain Capital authority is public. Third-party ranges are stale and were excluded. Historical work included consumer-crypto diligence and portfolio support; founders must contact a currently listed Blockchain Capital investor for live check size and sponsorship.

#27Sterling Campbell

Former Investor, Blockchain Capital (off current roster)

Blockchain Capital

In his Blockchain Capital work, Sterling focused on the intersection of consumers and crypto. He saw gaming as a mass-onboarding path because persistent games, interoperable assets and player-owned ec

Historical seed and venture investingConsumer-crypto diligencePortfolio support

#28Guy Wuollet

General Partner

a16z crypto

Guy invests across the crypto stack with a technical focus on infrastructure, DeFi, and decentralized physical infrastructure. He looks for blockchains to coordinate markets that centralized intermedi

No personal check-size range is published. Public seed, Series A, and later financing amounts are company-level transaction sizes and are not a defensible proxy for Guy's individual range or allocation authority.

$500K-$50M+ (across seed fund and main fund)

#29Vinod Khosla

Founder

Khosla Ventures

Explicitly optimizes for ~70% failure rates to back 'black swan' outcomes. Actively seeks opportunities that appear 'crazy' to most of the market. Capital-intensive, science-heavy bets. Believes fusio

First Round's published firm-wide initial checks are typically $1M–$7M, averaging about $3.5M; it has participated in rounds from $100K to $20M. No personal range is published for Todd.

#30Todd Jackson

Partner

First Round Capital

Todd backs technical founders who can turn complex technology into an elegant power tool and is unusually focused on the mechanics of reaching product-market fit. His disclosed portfolio—fal, Parallel

No personal check-size or allocation authority is published. Spartan Capital manages liquid, DeFi, gaming/metaverse, and market-neutral funds; the firm's $500M stated AUM and portfolio activity are not a personal check range for José.

#31Jose Sanchez

Head of research, Investment Associate

The Spartan Group

José researches and evaluates liquid and protocol opportunities for Spartan Capital. His work focuses on crypto becoming financial infrastructure: stablecoin adoption, yield markets, institutional use

Public TokensLiquid MarketsProtocol Investments

#32Ryan Connor

Research Partner

RockawayX

Ryan looks for crypto investments where differentiated, alpha-generative research reveals something the consensus has missed and where tokens or equities can be underwritten with traction and fundamen

No Ryan-specific venture check range is public. For RockawayX's Catapult program, the firm says it writes first checks into RWA-yield founders and can add anchor TVL, liquidity, DeFi integrations and mentorship; founders should ask directly about round-specific sizing.

Pre-seedSeedEarly Stage

#33Chris Perkins

Head of Franklin Crypto

Franklin Templeton

Chris bridges crypto-native markets and traditional institutional finance. As Head of Franklin Crypto, he leads active digital-asset strategies across tokens, protocols, and fintech opportunities. His

Franklin Crypto offers actively managed cryptocurrency strategies to institutional investors; it does not publish a personal venture check range for Chris. His current remit spans liquid digital-asset portfolio management rather than a disclosed startup check mandate, so past CoinFund round sizes are not used as a proxy.

Liquid TokensPublic MarketsInstitutional Asset Management

#34Stewart Eichner

Partner, Chief Legal Officer & Chief Compliance Officer

CoinFund

Stewart's legal lens separates a digital asset from the facts and method of its distribution. His Ripple analysis emphasizes that the same token may receive different securities treatment depending on

No Stewart-specific check size or allocation authority is public. His mandate covers CoinFund's legal, regulatory and compliance affairs. Founders should send project materials through CoinFund's projects channel and engage counsel on token, offering and compliance structure rather than assuming Stewart is the investment sponsor.

Fund formation and complianceToken and financing structure reviewRegulatory engagement

#35Pranav Singhvi

Managing Director

General Catalyst

Pranav invests through a capital-allocation lens: separate the predictable customer-acquisition engine of a product-market-fit company from its higher-risk product and operating company, then finance

No personal equity check-size range is published. Customer Value financings are bespoke, performance-linked capital structures and disclosed company packages should not be generalized into a personal minimum or maximum.

GrowthLate StageEndurance

#36John Buttrick

Venture Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

John's published investments apply a lawyer-investor lens to regulated markets where analog, repetitive infrastructure blocks access. His work favors portable financial identity, user-controlled crede

USV's published firm range is $1 million to $30 million from earliest stage through follow-ons. No personal range is attributed to John, and the firm's investment decision is a collective discussion rather than an individual vote.

No personal check size or investment allocation authority is published for Alyssa. Her route for founders is AppWorks' accelerator and its corporate accelerator programs; applicants should verify each current program's funding, equity and eligibility terms rather than assuming the firm's fund parameters apply.

#37Alyssa Chen

Accelerator Director

AppWorks

Alyssa's operating thesis is that an accelerator should be a practical lab where founders repeatedly test, learn and build with peers, mentors and corporate partners. She leads AppWorks Accelerator pl

Pre-accelerator and acceleratorFounder developmentAlumni and mentor community

#38Zoe Weinberg

Investment Team

ex/ante

Zoe Weinberg invests or supports investments through ex/ante's published strategy: Back agentic technologies that preserve human agency and rights in a digital world, spanning privacy, security, ident

ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.

$150K-$300K checks, as published by Trust Fund.

#39Sophia Amoruso

Founder and Managing Partner

Trust Fund

Sophia Amoruso invests or supports investments through Trust Fund's published strategy: Back tech-enabled products that help people start and build businesses, especially marketplaces, commerce infras

Pre-SeedSeed

#40Philipp Emig

Partner

Leitmotif

Philipp Emig invests or supports investments through Leitmotif's published strategy: Bridge US and European industrial ecosystems to help hard-technology companies move from demonstration to commercia

Leitmotif does not publish a standard investment range; its first fund is anchored by a $300M commitment.

Maki targets first rounds below EUR 5 million and supports consequent rounds; this is a firm round criterion, not Pirkka's personal check range. Active new investments come from Fund III.

#41Pirkka Palomäki

Founding Partner

Maki.vc (Web3)

Pirkka backs ambitious Nordic teams at their first rounds, combining an operator's technology and scaling perspective with Maki's sector-agnostic, non-consensus approach. His attributed investments fa

Pre-SeedSeedFirst Round

#42Alex Rohregger

Partner

Leitmotif

Alex Rohregger invests or supports investments through Leitmotif's published strategy: Bridge US and European industrial ecosystems to help hard-technology companies move from demonstration to commerc

Leitmotif does not publish a standard investment range; its first fund is anchored by a $300M commitment.

No personal check-size range is published. Greenfield's venture mandate spans pre-seed through later stages; financing amounts in Felix's investment essays are company-round totals, not personal limits.

#43Felix Machart

Research Partner

Greenfield Capital

Felix uses research and market data to identify durable crypto infrastructure and distinguish fundamental adoption from speculation. His work favors protocols with measurable usage, revenue or value a

ResilienceVC does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its official site; its debut fund is $56M.

#44Tahira Dosani

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

ResilienceVC

Tahira Dosani invests or supports investments through ResilienceVC's published strategy: Invest in technology and business models that improve financial resilience for underserved consumers and small

Pre-SeedSeed

#45Matt Trevithick

Managing Partner

Leitmotif

Matt Trevithick invests or supports investments through Leitmotif's published strategy: Bridge US and European industrial ecosystems to help hard-technology companies move from demonstration to commer

Leitmotif does not publish a standard investment range; its first fund is anchored by a $300M commitment.

Not disclosed and not inferable. Peyman is listed as a Research Partner, so founders should treat him as a domain expert and technical thesis contributor unless Hack VC confirms participation in a specific investment decision.

#46Peyman Momeni

Research Partner

Hack VC

Peyman treats confidentiality as market infrastructure rather than an abstract right. His research uses identity-based encryption and distributed decryption to prevent front-running with dramatically

Technical ResearchProtocol DesignPre-Seed

#47Jens Wiese

Managing Partner

Leitmotif

Jens Wiese invests or supports investments through Leitmotif's published strategy: Bridge US and European industrial ecosystems to help hard-technology companies move from demonstration to commercial

Leitmotif does not publish a standard investment range; its first fund is anchored by a $300M commitment.

ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.

#48Anastasia Uglova

Ecosystem

ex/ante

Anastasia Uglova is listed in a Ecosystem capacity at ex/ante. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role distinction and use

No personal or standard Collider check-size range is published. A disclosed $6.7M seed round was the total financing for one company and must not be treated as Avishay's personal or firm-wide check range.

#49Avishay Ovadia

Founding Partner

Collider Ventures

Avishay is a founder-first, contrarian crypto investor who treats decentralized systems as political and economic networks, not just software. He looks for leaders who can align the four constituencie

Supply Change Capital does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current site.

#50Shayna Harris

Co-Founder and General Partner

Supply Change Capital

Shayna Harris invests or supports investments through Supply Change Capital's published strategy: Back founders using technology to transform food, agriculture and technical supply chains, applying op

Neither Kleiner Perkins nor Ted publishes a personal check range on the cited pages. His Kleiner record spans early-stage and growth companies, but portfolio round sizes and Ballistic's fund sizes do not establish his individual Kleiner check authority.

#51Ted Schlein

Partner and Advisor

Kleiner Perkins

Ted is an operator-investor focused on cybersecurity and technology infrastructure across company formation, early-stage investment, scaling, and public-sector adoption. His Kleiner portfolio spans ap

Supply Change Capital does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current site.

#52Noramay Cadena

Co-Founder and General Partner

Supply Change Capital

Noramay Cadena invests or supports investments through Supply Change Capital's published strategy: Back founders using technology to transform food, agriculture and technical supply chains, applying o

ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.

#53Michael Mosier

Investment Team

ex/ante

Michael Mosier invests or supports investments through ex/ante's published strategy: Back agentic technologies that preserve human agency and rights in a digital world, spanning privacy, security, ide

ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.

#54Matt Hawes

Investment Team

ex/ante

Matt Hawes invests or supports investments through ex/ante's published strategy: Back agentic technologies that preserve human agency and rights in a digital world, spanning privacy, security, identit

No personal check-size range is published. His record includes seed investments and large later financings, but disclosed round totals belong to company financings and are not a personal range.

#55Neeraj Arora

CEO India, MENA & Managing Director

General Catalyst

Neeraj backs ambitious founders building category-defining businesses in India, MENA, and the corridors linking those regions with global markets. His approach combines Venture Highway's earliest-stag

Paradigm says it backs founders at every stage from first check through public markets, but it does not publish Alpin's personal check range or decision authority. A 2024 firm filing described vehicle investments from $1M to $100M or more; that historical firm range is not treated as his current personal range.

#56Alpin Yukseloglu

Partner, Investing & Research

Paradigm

Alpin partners with crypto founders and researchers who have strong instincts about the future and the courage to follow them. His work centers on protocol, market, and mechanism design—especially sys

No personal check-size range is published. Greenfield invests across pre-seed through later stages, while Christian's stated responsibility is implementing investment decisions rather than owning a public personal allocation range.

#57Christian Zimmermann

Partner and Chief Operating Officer

Greenfield Capital

Christian applies transaction, regulatory, and policy expertise to executing Greenfield's crypto investments. His work argues for clear decentralization standards, practical token tax treatment, open

Paradigm backs companies from first check through public markets, but neither the firm nor Ricardo publishes his personal check range or decision authority. Portfolio round totals and a historical firm-wide range are not treated as personal allocation evidence.

#58Ricardo de Arruda

Partner, Investing & Research

Paradigm

Ricardo uses large-scale onchain data to distinguish real crypto adoption from activity manufactured by incentives or sybils. He focuses on new ecosystems, user acquisition and retention, token distri

Leitmotif does not publish a standard investment range; its first fund is anchored by a $300M commitment.

#59Ryan Bayliss

Partner

Leitmotif

Ryan Bayliss invests or supports investments through Leitmotif's published strategy: Bridge US and European industrial ecosystems to help hard-technology companies move from demonstration to commercia

USV states that the firm writes $1 million to $30 million checks from the earliest stages onward. It does not publish Brad's personal range or authority; investments are discussed by the full partnership and decided collectively without a vote.

#60Brad Burnham

Co-Founder and Venture Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Brad's published investing work centers on preserving the internet's permissionless, generative character. He has backed open communications and data infrastructure, decentralized protocols with incen

ResilienceVC does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its official site; its debut fund is $56M.

#61Vikas Raj

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

ResilienceVC

Vikas Raj invests or supports investments through ResilienceVC's published strategy: Invest in technology and business models that improve financial resilience for underserved consumers and small busi

Pre-SeedSeed

#62Jeannette zu Fürstenberg

President & Managing Director

General Catalyst

Jeannette is a founder-led generalist investing to strengthen European prosperity and resilience through technology. She backs ambitious companies from ideation onward across AI, defense, energy, indu

No personal check-size range is published. Her public record spans seed investments through large follow-on rounds, but total financing sizes and General Catalyst's assets are not personal check parameters.

ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.

#63Farhan Abrol

Investment Team

ex/ante

Farhan Abrol invests or supports investments through ex/ante's published strategy: Back agentic technologies that preserve human agency and rights in a digital world, spanning privacy, security, ident

No personal check range is disclosed. Shorooq's equity platform covers the full journey from pre-seed to late-stage growth; Tina's current Venture Partner/adviser listing does not establish independent check authority, so founders should confirm the relevant vehicle and decision process.

#64Tina Daher

Venture Partner

Shorooq Partners

Tina looks for high-caliber founders applying differentiated technology to consequential emerging-market problems. Her attributable investment material emphasizes technically credible climate and indu

Big Pi publishes a firm-wide equity-ticket range of €0.5M–€30M across its early-stage and growth funds; its early-stage Fund II described €1M–€3M lead investments. These are firm parameters, not Vassilis's personal allocation range.

#65Vassilis Tziokas

Venture Partner

Big Pi Ventures

Vassilis brings a blockchain ecosystem and go-to-market lens to Big Pi's technology investing. His public work emphasizes the transition from crypto trading toward usable infrastructure: privacy-prese

SeedEarly StageSeries A

#66Brett Berson

Partner

First Round Capital

Brett studies how thousands of small choices compound into an exceptional company. He backs very early builders with contrarian insight and an outlier capability, then works at the decision level rath

First Round's published firm-wide initial checks are typically $1M–$7M, averaging about $3.5M; it has participated in rounds from $100K to $20M. No personal range is published for Brett.

Colosseum's published accelerator investment is $250K pre-seed for accepted teams; it is a program-level standard, not Michael's personal discretionary check. Current materials say hackathon winners are interviewed and considered, with accepted teams receiving capital, mentorship and network access. Earlier official content described 7% terms; founders must verify the current instrument, percentage and token/equity structure.

#67Michael Rinko

Associate

Colosseum

Michael's lens combines markets research with Colosseum's tournament-style venture funnel: use global hackathons and four-week build sprints to observe which founders ship, learn and attract users bef

Pre-seedHackathon to acceleratorInitial product sprint

#68Bill Trenchard

Partner

First Round Capital

Bill looks for pre-product-market-fit founders who reason from first principles: they decompose a complicated system to its atomic unit, find hidden leverage in overlooked mechanics, and build an unco

First Round's published firm-wide initial checks are typically $1M–$7M, averaging about $3.5M; it has participated in rounds from $100K to $20M. No personal range is published for Bill.

No portfolio-company check range was disclosed. The announced 2023 YGG Ventures Fund I targeted $75M and a $500K minimum LP commitment, but the latter is an LP subscription minimum—not a startup check size—and current fund deployment status is not publicly confirmed.

#69Beryl Li

Director / Investment Committee

YGG Ventures

Beryl's investment role was framed around early-stage token and equity investments in Web3 game studios and the infrastructure needed for the sector to grow. Her broader operating thesis begins with c

Pre-seedSeedEarly Stage

#70Jon Levy

Managing Director, Partnerships

Y Combinator

Jon's public work focuses on reducing legal and financing friction for startups and supporting YC companies after the batch. He advocates standardized formation and fundraising documents, founder unde

YC invests through standardized program terms; no Jon-specific startup check size or independent allocation authority is public. Apply through YC's official process. Partnership, post-batch and financing-support questions should be framed for his documented remit.

Post-batch company supportStrategic partnershipsCompany formation and financing

#71Lucas Vogelsang

VENTURE PARTNER

Blockchain Capital

Lucas specializes in rebuilding credit and capital markets on shared blockchain infrastructure. His operating record points to tokenized funds, real-world assets, institutional DeFi, and end-to-end le

No personal or venture-partner check range is published. Blockchain Capital's announced financing rounds and Tare's seed round are transaction sizes, not a reliable proxy for Lucas's individual authority.

SeedEarly StageProtocol Networks

#72Jehan Chu

Founder & Managing Partner

Kenetic Capital

Jehan treats blockchain as the next internet and backs the data, infrastructure, enterprise, trading and financial systems that can anchor a natively digital economy. He underwrites the founders first

No reliable public standard ticket or Jehan-specific approval range was found. Kenetic invests its family-office capital in direct blockchain companies, tokens and other crypto funds, and its published site emphasizes Series A/B equity; historical and interview evidence also shows seed, token and incubation activity. Ask directly rather than inferring a check from round size.

No person-specific check size is publicly disclosed. Pantera's published venture approach typically invests from Seed through Series B and aims to lead or co-lead; founders should confirm fit rather than infer a check from third-party databases.

#73Mason Nystrom

Partner

Pantera Capital

Mason is an application-layer investor looking for products that use crypto coordination and ownership to change how large groups of people interact. His work emphasizes stablecoins as global payment

No Felipe-specific check size or investment authority is public. UTXO allocates across venture, liquid, public-market and structured-credit strategies; company founders and allocators should confirm the relevant vehicle and current sizing through the firm's contact channel.

#74Felipe Demartini

Associate

UTXO Management

Felipe specializes in Bitcoin-native assets and publicly listed Bitcoin treasury companies, combining fundamental research with short-, medium- and long-horizon trading. His work sits inside UTXO's vi

Public MarketsLiquidVenture

#75Sebastian Blum

Founding Partner

Greenfield Capital

Sebastian backs open, decentralized infrastructure that removes single points of failure and gives users and institutions resilient alternatives to concentrated cloud, communications, identity, and fi

No personal check-size range is published. Greenfield's venture strategy invests from pre-seed through later rounds; its EUR 135 million Fund III size and portfolio financing totals are not Sebastian's personal check parameters.

No Melissa-specific Blockchain Capital check size or allocation authority is public. Her documented work is executive talent, leadership and board development for NEA portfolio companies. Crypto founders should use Blockchain Capital's investors; NEA portfolio leaders can engage her on talent and leadership.

#76Melissa Taunton

Advisor; Partner, Talent at NEA

Blockchain Capital

Melissa's operating thesis is that exceptional companies require leaders who can scale themselves along with the organization. She works with founders and CEOs to build, develop, compensate and retain

Executive-team designLeadership developmentBoard building

#77Lukas Etter

Co-CIO & General Partner

CV VC

Lukas backs early frontier-technology companies building a decentralized and tokenized economy, with a current emphasis on traditional businesses moving onto blockchain rails and the convergence of bl

CV VC's published early-stage program invests up to $500,000 in qualifying pre-seed and seed companies with an MVP and initial traction. This is a firm program limit, not Lukas's personal allocation range; other vehicles and follow-ons may differ.

Pre-SeedSeedAccelerator

#78Banafsheh Fathieh

General Partner

Lightspeed Faction

Banafsheh backs early blockchain companies and token networks that create fundamental utility. Her public discussions emphasize the infrastructure or 'plumbing' of crypto, globally relevant financial

No personal check-size range is published. Faction invests at Seed and Series A through both equity and tokens; the firm's reported fund size and company round totals are not Banafsheh's personal range.

SeedSeries AToken Networks

#79Georgios Konstantopoulos

General Partner & CTO

Paradigm

Systems engineering, Ethereum infrastructure, developer tooling. Key contributor to Ethereum Rust ecosystem.

#80Stanko Nedic

Partner

V3V Ventures

Stanko invests in early-stage software, digital infrastructure and emerging technology, with a strong Web3 focus and an engineer's bias toward difficult, foundational systems. His current public filte

No Stanko-specific check range is public. A current third-party V3V profile reports a firm-level typical range of $100K–$1M at pre-seed/seed, while public round databases describe the larger rounds V3V joins rather than its own checks. Treat $100K–$1M as directional and confirm instrument, allocation and follow-on capacity directly.

Pre-seedSeedSelective later follow-on

#81Samir Kerbage

Chief Investment Officer

Hashdex

Samir views crypto as a long-horizon technology and asset-class allocation rather than a short-term trade. His framework has two complementary pillars: bitcoin maturing as a scarce store of value and

Samir is a public/liquid-markets asset manager rather than a disclosed venture check writer. Hashdex publishes fund and index methodologies, not a personal startup check range; pitches should concern investable assets, indexes, products, research, or institutional partnerships rather than assume venture capital authority.

Liquid AssetsPublic MarketsETFs

#82Abdul Al Ali

Venture Investor

Decasonic

Abdul invests at the application and interface layers where Web3 provides programmable trust, ownership or economic coordination for AI systems. His current work emphasizes physical AI and robotics da

No Abdul-specific check range is public. Decasonic's current team page calls him Venture Investor and says founder Paul Hsu is the firm's sole general partner, so this profile does not imply unilateral allocation authority. Confirm current vehicle, instrument, lead appetite and check size directly.

No personal check range or signing authority is published. Nadia's current portfolio includes early and growth investments; individual company round sizes are not a personal range.

#83Nadia Cochinwala

Principal

Kleiner Perkins

Nadia invests across enterprise applications and infrastructure, from AI compute and networking to vertical AI in healthcare, finance, sales, coding, and productivity. Her official portfolio spans bot

GTK is primarily a corporate advisory firm and does not publish an Ali-specific venture check range. Ali has disclosed individual technology investments, but those do not establish a repeatable allocation mandate. Companies should clarify whether they seek advisory work, financing support or an investment.

#84Ali Tabibian

Founder and Partner

GTK Partners

Ali works where technical systems, strategic finance and corporate transactions meet. GTK's work spans private growth companies, corporations and financial sponsors, with particular expertise in softw

Growth-company advisoryMergers and acquisitionsCapital formation

#85Sophie Chiu

Investment Director

AppWorks

Sophie backs Asian founders applying AI to transformative products and organizational models. Her current work spans personalized AI, gaming, agentic systems, and AI-enabled work; her broader investme

Firm-level: AppWorks publishes a US$200K to US$15M per-deal range across Seed through Series C, with capacity to lead or follow and reserve capital for follow-ons. This is not Sophie's personal allocation range.

No personal check range is publicly disclosed. Shorooq's official equity strategy spans pre-seed through late-stage growth; the Presight–Shorooq AI Fund is a $100M global platform. Treat vehicle size and stage coverage as firm-level context, not Bilal's personal authorization or a promised check size.

#86Dr. Bilal Baloch

Partner

Shorooq Partners

Bilal backs globally relevant AI companies where technical capability can be translated into real deployment. His operator and value-creation lens emphasizes more than capital: access to compute, data

Norrsken VC publicly states €1M–€10M early-stage and growth tickets. This is a firm-level range, not proof of Alexander's personal or unilateral approval authority.

#87Alexander Danielsson

General Partner

Norrsken Impact Fund

Alexander backs scalable software and AI that modernize economically important, under-digitized industries while creating measurable environmental or social impact. His recent work around Terra Labs,

Not publicly disclosed for Beacon Funds commitments. AppWorks' direct-company strategy publishes US$200K to US$15M per deal from Seed through Series C; that range should not be applied to Jun's venture-fund investments.

#88Jun Wakabayashi

Venture Principal

AppWorks

Jun uses fund investments as ecosystem infrastructure: back locally connected or specialist managers, exchange market intelligence and diligence, create co-investment and follow-on capital paths, and

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#89Matt Manley

Senior Finance Associate

CoinFund

Matt's operating lens joins audit discipline with crypto-native middle-office experience: substantiate data completeness and accuracy, turn raw records into understandable reporting, automate repeatab

Not applicable to Matt's finance-operations role. He has no published personal investment authority or check size. Founder materials should be sent to CoinFund's projects address, while finance, administration or investor requests should follow the relevant official channel.

Fund finance operationsMiddle-office reportingProcess automation

#90Claude Donzé

Principal

Greenfield Capital

Claude leads Greenfield's consumer investing and backs crypto products that turn mature onchain rails into understandable, trusted consumer experiences. His published work focuses on mobile-native DeF

No verified personal check-size range is published. Greenfield invests across private, public, and liquid crypto assets from pre-seed through later stages; disclosed Claude-led financings include Rebind's €1.6M pre-seed, Greenfield's co-lead in Layer3's $15M Series A, and Greenfield's lead in Self's $9M seed. Those round sizes are not Claude's personal allocation authority.

No personal check-size range is published. Craft invests from angel/seed through venture and growth; amounts in Bryan's investment announcements are total company rounds, not his personal or standard Craft checks.

#91Bryan Rosenblatt

Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

Bryan applies a growth, revenue, and marketplace lens shaped by building Reddit's New York revenue organization and Twitter's startup advertising business. His investments favor products that remove e

No verified personal check range or standard firm-wide range is published. Her official portfolio spans early and growth investments; disclosed company rounds are not personal allocation limits.

#92Leigh Marie Braswell

Partner

Kleiner Perkins

Leigh Marie backs AI infrastructure and applications, with a particular eye for the systems that close the gap between frontier-model capability and reliable, mission-critical use. Her portfolio inclu

Not applicable as a personal founder check. Raye is a digital-assets research associate supporting ARK's managed investment strategies; the cited sources do not establish personal venture check-writing authority or a standard startup ticket.

#93Raye Hadi

Research Associate, Digital Assets

ARK Invest

Raye analyzes how cryptoassets can disrupt legacy financial systems, with particular depth in stablecoin architecture and DeFi application economics. He evaluates networks and tokens through reserves,

Liquid CryptoassetsPublic MarketsThematic Research

#94Alex Morgan

Partner

Khosla Ventures

Alex invests where computation, biology, and healthcare converge. His scientific and clinical background supports a systems view of biomarker discovery, therapeutics, diagnostics, personalized medicin

No personal check range is published. Khosla's Seed Fund supports science and business-model experiments, historically often with roughly $1M–$2M according to a 2020 firm interview, while its Main Fund covers early through later stages. These are firm-level references, not Alex's authority.

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#95David Sacks

Co-Founder & Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

Pioneered 'Bottom-Up SaaS' — the strategy of applying consumer growth tactics to B2B products. At PayPal he learned viral distribution; at Yammer he proved it could work in the enterprise, growing fro

$1M-$50M

No current personal check range or new-investment authority is published. Richard's official Board Partner role focuses on coaching existing First Round companies; firm-wide check ranges should not be attributed to him personally.

#96Richard Alfonsi

Board Partner

First Round Capital

Richard applies experience from building startups and running global revenue organizations to help First Round companies navigate go-to-market. His stated scope spans GTM strategy, customer segmentati

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#97Samir Kaul

Founding Partner & Managing Director

Khosla Ventures

Samir prefers large, known markets where a radical technical risk can produce a 10x-better product. He treats small seed checks as option-value experiments: identify a potential billion-dollar outcome

In a 2020 first-person interview, Samir described a typical Khosla Seed Fund investment as roughly $1M–$2M, used as option-value capital to remove key risks before a larger Series A/B decision. Khosla's current Main Fund covers early through later stages, including total financings above $10M. These are historical/firm-level guideposts, not a guaranteed current personal range.

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#98Jerry Chen

General Partner

Greylock Partners

Coined the 'Systems of Intelligence' framework in his landmark 2017 blog post 'The New Moats' — the idea that AI and data create competitive advantages by sitting between systems of record (databases)

$500K-$200M (sweet spot ~$25M)

No personal check-size range is published. USV invests at the earliest stages and supports companies throughout their journey; investment decisions are made collaboratively by discussion rather than individual vote.

#99Nick Grossman

Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Nick's work connects open, decentralized systems with the infrastructure needed for the next computing cycle. His current 'Rebel Alliance' thesis argues that agentic AI will favor a modular ecosystem