Best VCs for Trading Infrastructure

11 venture capitalists actively investing in Trading Infrastructure.

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Investment Partner

a16z crypto

Jay backs consumer and application-layer crypto products that make onchain systems useful to mainstream users. His recent work centers on financial applications as crypto's adoption wedge: wallets bec

No verified personal check-size range is publicly attributed to Jay. His disclosed work includes a16z crypto leading Kairos's $2.5M seed round; that round size is company financing, not Jay's individual allocation authority.

SeedSeries AEarly Stage

#2Lucas Raymond (LTR)

Venture Associate

Kosmos Ventures

Lucas looks for early, non-consensus crypto opportunities through an active-user and market-structure lens. He believes decentralized markets can democratize finance and that money increasingly follow

No Lucas-specific check range is public. A current OpenVC search profile lists Kosmos at $100K–$1M, while Kosmos's own live material confirms Seed/Pre-Seed as its co-building focus but publishes no check size. Treat $100K–$1M as third-party firm guidance only; confirm allocation, instrument, ownership and decision-maker directly with Lucas and the team.

Pre-seedSeedEarly Stage

#3Joey Shin

Junior Partner

Pantera Capital

Joey treats blockchain as a permissionless, composable technology stack for programming value and human behavior—not merely a digital copy of traditional finance. He is looking for institutional DeFi

No person-specific check size is publicly disclosed. Pantera's published venture strategy typically spans Seed through Series B and aims to lead or co-lead; Joey's own mandate is DeFi and infrastructure rather than a stated ticket size.

SeedSeries AGrowth

#4Arjun Balaji

General Partner

Paradigm

Crypto market structure, infrastructure, TradFi-DeFi intersection.

#5Darius Sit

Angel Investor & QCP Founder

Darius views crypto as a frontier market progressing toward institutional maturity rather than as a purely speculative trade. His macro, derivatives and quantitative background supports opportunities

No reliable personal angel range is published. QCP is an institutional digital-asset trading and asset-management group, not a conventional open venture fund, so founders should distinguish Darius's personal investment activity from QCP proprietary positions, partnerships and commercial services.

SeedSeries AGrowth

#6Spencer Applebaum

General Partner, Co-Head of Venture

Multicoin Capital

Solana ecosystem, DeFi, DePIN. High-performance blockchain applications.

SeedSeries AVenture

#7Jan-Dirk Lueders

Co-Founder

CMT Digital

Jan-Dirk views blockchain and distributed-ledger technology as a multi-decade shift that can make valuable information as easy to transfer as smartphones made ordinary information. His operating philo

$100K-$5M, with a reported $1.5M sweet spot, according to an external investor directory; confirm current sizing directly with CMT Digital.

SeedSeries AEarly Stage

#8Joshua Ho

Co-founder

QCP Capital

SeedSeries AStrategic

#9Evelyn Nguyen

Investment Analyst

Proxima Investments

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

#10Kain Warwick

Angel Investor & Founder