Financial Infrastructure

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.

Varrock VC

Check: $600K–$900K at pre-seed and seed, published on Varrock's live website. The fund targets a small, concentrated portfolio, commonly 0–1 new investment per quarter, to maintain ownership and hands-on capacity rather than spray and pray.

Richard backs concentrated, contrarian pre-seed and seed bets in the future of finance. For crypto-native products, he looks for category creation, missionary founders, power-user retention and continuous zero-to-one product innovation. For crypto-adjacent companies, crypto should be an enabling feature inside a much larger industry, led by commercially strong domain experts with superior distribution and unit economics rather than recent crypto pivots.

Vesey Ventures

Check: $1.5M-$3M initial checks were disclosed at launch; no person-specific range is public.

Dana Eli-Lorch invests or supports investments through Vesey Ventures's published strategy: Back early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies where partnerships with financial incumbents can accelerate commercialization, pairing term sheets with tailored strategy sheets.

Vesey Ventures

Check: $1.5M-$3M initial checks were disclosed at launch; no person-specific range is public.

Julia Huang invests or supports investments through Vesey Ventures's published strategy: Back early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies where partnerships with financial incumbents can accelerate commercialization, pairing term sheets with tailored strategy sheets.

Vesey Ventures

Check: $1.5M-$3M initial checks were disclosed at launch; no person-specific range is public.

Lindsay Fitzgerald invests or supports investments through Vesey Ventures's published strategy: Back early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies where partnerships with financial incumbents can accelerate commercialization, pairing term sheets with tailored strategy sheets.

First Round Capital

Check: 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.

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 rather than prescribing the finished product. His disclosed investments—Clay, Stedi, and Persona—show an interest in foundational B2B workflows: flexible go-to-market tooling, healthcare eligibility and claims APIs, and identity verification.

Big Pi Ventures

Check: 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.

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-preserving institutional networks, interoperable bank deposits, Ethereum applications, zero-knowledge systems, stablecoins, and real-world financial workflows. This sits within Big Pi's broader preference for defensible technology, global markets, and teams that can translate technical invention into commercial products.

Greenfield Capital

Check: 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.

Sebastian backs open, decentralized infrastructure that removes single points of failure and gives users and institutions resilient alternatives to concentrated cloud, communications, identity, and financial systems. His current thesis treats privacy, self-sovereign asset management, encrypted computation, and machine infrastructure as commercially important layers of European digital sovereignty rather than speculative crypto niches.

Northzone (Web3)

Check: No personal standard check-size range is published. Northzone has disclosed leading or co-leading large company rounds, but those totals are not Sanjot's individual allocation range and should not be presented as one.

Sanjot leads Northzone's growth strategy. He looks for companies with proven product-market fit, repeatable go-to-market, viable unit economics, distinctive product IP, mission-critical customer value, global platform potential, ecosystem influence, and defensibility that compounds. His process favors differentiated research and relationships built over time rather than auction-driven consensus investing.

Greenfield Capital

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Greenfield's venture strategy spans pre-seed through later rounds; disclosed portfolio round totals are not Andrzej's personal allocation limits.

Andrzej brings an operator-CTO lens to Greenfield's crypto portfolio. His current published work emphasizes privacy as general-purpose infrastructure and backs decentralized encrypted computation that can make sensitive finance, healthcare, AI, and enterprise workloads usable without exposing raw data. His role is technical and portfolio-facing rather than publicly described as a conventional sourcing mandate.

Shorooq Partners

Check: Shorooq invests across the equity journey from pre-seed through late-stage growth, but neither the firm nor Kunal publishes his personal check range or decision authority. Portfolio round totals are not treated as check-size evidence.

Kunal supports Shorooq's fintech and web3 practice with an operator's perspective across the UK, UAE, and Africa. His remit fits the firm's founder-first strategy: backing regional companies from idea through scale and global frontier companies where technology modernizes financial access, payments, wealth, business operations, or digital ownership. Shorooq's blockchain thesis favors crypto augmenting existing consumer behavior and solving real-world problems rather than replacing useful behavior with complexity.

CoinFund

Check: No standard personal ticket is published. CoinFund's 2026 articles identify the firm as lead on Trace's $32M Series A and Edge Markets' $29M Series A, with George authoring or contributing to the theses; round size is not equivalent to CoinFund's check or George's authority.

George looks for open, permissionless systems that expand financial access and remove cost, delay and gatekeeping from payments and DeFi. His writing starts with sharp workflow pain—especially cross-border settlement, prefunding, last-mile liquidity and fragmented banking rails—then tests whether stablecoins and high-throughput networks produce a simpler product for non-crypto-native users. He also tracks financial rails for prediction markets and other emerging on-chain venues.

Inception Capital

Check: Inception does not publish a David-specific check range on its live site. A 2026 interview described an $80M platform split between a $50M venture fund and $30M fund-of-funds, but vehicle size is not personal check size. Founders should ask directly about current round, ownership and reserve fit.

David runs a dual strategy: direct early-stage venture investments and backing emerging fund managers, sometimes through management-company or GP stakes. His edge is an East-West network connecting U.S. innovation and institutional capital with Asian adoption, builders and liquidity. He favors globally trained founders, emerging-market financial infrastructure and long-duration themes such as stablecoins, tokenization, automated finance and the intersection of AI and Web3.

CoinFund

Check: No verified personal check-size range is published. CoinFund attributes pre-seed, seed, and Series A deals to Einar, but disclosed round totals are company financings and not his personal allocation authority.

Einar backs foundational technology that decentralizes scarce AI resources or rebuilds financial rails onchain. His portfolio connects open compute and model ownership, verifiable AI, permanent data, cross-chain liquidity, stablecoin payments, and institutional prediction-market infrastructure. He favors technically ambitious early teams addressing a structural bottleneck, with a credible path from an initial developer or institutional wedge to an open network that scales access, freedom, and knowledge.

Haun Ventures

Check: No reliable Chris-specific ticket range is public. Haun invests from seed through scale and announced $1 billion of new early- and later-stage capital in May 2026; round evidence includes leading or co-leading seed, Series A and an $82M growth financing, but round size is not the same as Haun's check.

Chris backs community-led and crypto-enabled businesses where open technology creates a durable advantage and a credible business model. His work focuses on the infrastructure of globally programmable finance—stablecoin payments and FX, secure blockspace, onchain real-world assets, business accounts, custody and long-duration Bitcoin products—while testing whether governance, monetization and scale mechanics actually fit the product.

Verda Ventures

Check: Verda's live FAQ says the MiniPay Fund typically invests $100K–$250K initially at earlier stages and $500K–$2M later, seeks roughly 5–10% early ownership and 2–6% later, and can be first check or co-invest. These are current vehicle ranges, not Amit's personal angel checks.

Amit backs fintech companies using stablecoin rails to deliver useful financial products in emerging markets. Verda's MiniPay strategy combines capital with Opera distribution and Celo infrastructure, targeting payments, remittances, identity, banking and consumer applications that can serve underbanked users. The broader thesis is that stablecoins become valuable when embedded invisibly in faster, cheaper and more accessible financial services, not when sold as speculation.

Khosla Ventures

Check: No current personal check range is published. Khosla's Seed Fund backs experiments and its Main Fund covers early through later stages, including total financings above $10M; a 2020 interview described historical seed checks around $1M–$2M. These are firm-level guideposts, not Adrian's personal authority.

Adrian is an early-stage generalist whose prior portfolio and advisory work span fintech, enterprise software, cybersecurity, defense, productivity, and frontier technologies. His biography emphasizes partnering before defining strategic moments rather than arriving only for transactions; the relevant lens is whether a bold founder has an unfair advantage, a billion-dollar market, and a disciplined plan to remove the most important technical and market risks.

MiddleGame Ventures

Check: MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

Loïc Bertoli is listed in a Head of Investor Relations capacity at MiddleGame Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included only as shared organizational context.

MiddleGame Ventures

Check: MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

Ellen McCance invests or supports investment decisions through MiddleGame Ventures's published strategy: Invest in early-stage financial-technology companies reshaping financial services, using cross-border operating and regulatory expertise.

MiddleGame Ventures

Check: MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

Gary McGann invests or supports investment decisions through MiddleGame Ventures's published strategy: Invest in early-stage financial-technology companies reshaping financial services, using cross-border operating and regulatory expertise.

Maven 11 Capital

Check: Maven 11 does not publish Darius's personal check range or decision authority. Third-party investor databases estimate ranges, but those figures are not treated as verified evidence. The current firm describes an early-stage venture strategy without attaching a check range to him.

Darius works within Maven 11's crypto-native, early-stage strategy. The firm backs technically fluent founders who challenge the status quo by redefining ownership through open, inclusive, permissionless networks. Its current third-fund focus has shifted from foundational rails toward founders using those rails to reinvent credit, payments, stablecoins, and trading. Darius's own public comments emphasize extensive research into the actual product and business case rather than following a crowded token market.

ATX Venture Partners

Check: $250K-$5M initial investment range published by ATX Venture Partners; no person-specific range is disclosed.

Chris Shonk is part of ATX Venture Partners's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back applied-AI founders modernizing defense and space, physical operations, healthcare, enterprise systems, and financial infrastructure.

ATX Venture Partners

Check: $250K-$5M initial investment range published by ATX Venture Partners; no person-specific range is disclosed.

Danielle Allen is part of ATX Venture Partners's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back applied-AI founders modernizing defense and space, physical operations, healthcare, enterprise systems, and financial infrastructure.

ATX Venture Partners

Check: $250K-$5M initial investment range published by ATX Venture Partners; no person-specific range is disclosed.

Kevin Fiur is part of ATX Venture Partners's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back applied-AI founders modernizing defense and space, physical operations, healthcare, enterprise systems, and financial infrastructure.

ATX Venture Partners

Check: $250K-$5M initial investment range published by ATX Venture Partners; no person-specific range is disclosed.

Emerson Miller is part of ATX Venture Partners's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back applied-AI founders modernizing defense and space, physical operations, healthcare, enterprise systems, and financial infrastructure.

ATX Venture Partners

Check: $250K-$5M initial investment range published by ATX Venture Partners; no person-specific range is disclosed.

Spencer Lucas is part of ATX Venture Partners's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back applied-AI founders modernizing defense and space, physical operations, healthcare, enterprise systems, and financial infrastructure.

ATX Venture Partners

Check: $250K-$5M initial investment range published by ATX Venture Partners; no person-specific range is disclosed.

Dave Ritter is part of ATX Venture Partners's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back applied-AI founders modernizing defense and space, physical operations, healthcare, enterprise systems, and financial infrastructure.

ATX Venture Partners

Check: $250K-$5M initial investment range published by ATX Venture Partners; no person-specific range is disclosed.

Tony Capasso is part of ATX Venture Partners's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back applied-AI founders modernizing defense and space, physical operations, healthcare, enterprise systems, and financial infrastructure.

ATX Venture Partners

Check: $250K-$5M initial investment range published by ATX Venture Partners; no person-specific range is disclosed.

Michael Flory is part of ATX Venture Partners's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back applied-AI founders modernizing defense and space, physical operations, healthcare, enterprise systems, and financial infrastructure.

ATX Venture Partners

Check: $250K-$5M initial investment range published by ATX Venture Partners; no person-specific range is disclosed.

Jeff Gray is part of ATX Venture Partners's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back applied-AI founders modernizing defense and space, physical operations, healthcare, enterprise systems, and financial infrastructure.

ATX Venture Partners

Check: $250K-$5M initial investment range published by ATX Venture Partners; no person-specific range is disclosed.

David Godwin is part of ATX Venture Partners's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back applied-AI founders modernizing defense and space, physical operations, healthcare, enterprise systems, and financial infrastructure.

ATX Venture Partners

Check: $250K-$5M initial investment range published by ATX Venture Partners; no person-specific range is disclosed.

Peter Kirby is part of ATX Venture Partners's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back applied-AI founders modernizing defense and space, physical operations, healthcare, enterprise systems, and financial infrastructure.

MiddleGame Ventures

Check: MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

Pascal Bouvier invests or supports investment decisions through MiddleGame Ventures's published strategy: Invest in early-stage financial-technology companies reshaping financial services, using cross-border operating and regulatory expertise.

MiddleGame Ventures

Check: MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

Michael Meyer invests or supports investment decisions through MiddleGame Ventures's published strategy: Invest in early-stage financial-technology companies reshaping financial services, using cross-border operating and regulatory expertise.

MiddleGame Ventures

Check: MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

Patrick Pinschmidt invests or supports investment decisions through MiddleGame Ventures's published strategy: Invest in early-stage financial-technology companies reshaping financial services, using cross-border operating and regulatory expertise.

MiddleGame Ventures

Check: MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

Kanishk Walia invests or supports investment decisions through MiddleGame Ventures's published strategy: Invest in early-stage financial-technology companies reshaping financial services, using cross-border operating and regulatory expertise.

MiddleGame Ventures

Check: MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

William Kotto is listed in a Chief Financial Officer and Risk Conducting Officer capacity at MiddleGame Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included only as shared organizational context.

MiddleGame Ventures

Check: MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

Mia Lewis invests or supports investment decisions through MiddleGame Ventures's published strategy: Invest in early-stage financial-technology companies reshaping financial services, using cross-border operating and regulatory expertise.

MiddleGame Ventures

Check: MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

Arnaud Pedrazzani invests or supports investment decisions through MiddleGame Ventures's published strategy: Invest in early-stage financial-technology companies reshaping financial services, using cross-border operating and regulatory expertise.

ego death capital

Onigiri Capital

ATX Venture Partners

Austin, Texas

MiddleGame Ventures

Luxembourg, Dublin, London and Washington, DC

Vesey Ventures

New York, New York / Tel Aviv, Israel

8VC

Austin

AUM: $6B

Canapi Ventures

Wilmington

AUM: $650M+

Elevator Ventures

Vienna

AUM: €100M+

Leland Ventures

Denver

AUM: $10M

Motive Partners

New York

AUM: $6.4B

Nyca Partners

AUM: ~$975M

Apollo Global Management

New York

Canary Capital

Brentwood

Molten Ventures

London

NYDIG

New York City

Nova Founders Capital

London

Portage Ventures

AUM: $6.4B

Benedict Ho

Hong Kong

Reforge

LongRiver