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Baller ventures is the corporate venture fund for Dapper Labs.

Dapper Labs

Baller Ventures

MomentRanks

Infinite Objects

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Mynft

Tibles

Genies

Agile. Fierce. Relentless. We are the honey badgers of venture.

Initialized Capital is a San Francisco-based early stage venture capital firm with over $500M in assets under management.

We're founders and builders who are here to help others like us build meaningful businesses. We focus on investing in high-potential software startups at seed stage and earlier, and are happy to be the first investors in early teams run by great engineers, designers and product founders. 

We've helped more founders build startups at the earliest possible stage than most anyone you'll meet, and that means we can help startups avoid the 1,000 landmines that can cause certain failure. It certainly won't guarantee success (as we all know there's no such thing in startups) but at the seed stage we've seen many cases where having the right investors will improve your chances significantly. 

In the end, we started this firm to help people like ourselves build companies that matter. A lot of great investors, advisors, founders, and friends have helped us along the way. We're just here to pay it forward.

Initialized Capital

Across our active USV portfolio network of 70 companies, it's highly likely that there's at least one other person thinking about some of those same challenges.

Union Square Ventures

COPA, The Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance, operates on the principle that open access to patents covering foundational cryptocurrency technologies is necessary for the community to grow, freely innovate, and build new and better products.

It is a non-profit community of like-minded people and companies formed to encourage the adoption and advancement of cryptocurrency technologies and to remove patents as a barrier to growth and innovation. COPA acknowledges that cryptocurrency technology is built on the collaborative efforts of a community made up of developers, engineers, and designers. The success of cryptocurrency is a direct result of the community coming together to build and develop upon existing technologies for the benefit of all, and we believe COPA will help this happen.

Crypto organizations have filed for hundreds of patents on cryptocurrency technology and continue to do so in large numbers, causing some concerns:

1/ Locking up foundational cryptocurrency technologies in patents stifles innovation and the adoption of these technologies in new and improved applications.

2/ While patents are useful defensively and can serve as a lawsuit deterrent, misguided and offensive use of patents by bad actors threatens the growth and free availability of cryptocurrency technologies. Many crypto companies do not own patents and are unable to adequately deter or defend against these bad actors.

COPA

BitPay is the first and most experienced company in bitcoin payments, BitPay builds powerful tools for spending, accepting, and building with bitcoin.

The company has offices in North America, Europe, and South America and has raised over $70 million from top investors including Index Ventures, Aquiline Technology Growth, Menlo Ventures, Founders Fund, and Sir Richard Branson.

BitPay

Titan Crypto is the first actively managed crypto strategy available to all U.S. investors, that we believe are positioned for outstanding long-term returns with minimal correlation to U.S. equities and with attractive hedging qualities.

Our Investment Team conducts deep fundamental and quantitative research to identify what we believe to be the highest quality cryptoassets for the next 3-5+ years.

We then construct a concentrated yet balanced portfolio of these cryptoassets with strict risk controls to screen out cryptoassets which we believe entail outsized risks around custody, liquidity, regulatory, and other concerns.

We actively manage the weights of each cryptoasset in this portfolio based on the evolution of each cryptoasset’s utility, adoption, and price action.

This includes regular rebalancing and tactical trading during periods of excess volatility to maximize reward/risk.

Titan Crypto is available to all U.S. investors – there is no accreditation requirement.

Titan Crypto

Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage companies, and both consumer and enterprise technology companies. To date, a16z has raised $7.1B, across seven funds, including the $650M Bio funds.

a16z is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial company building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. The firm is led by general partners who are former founders/operators, CEOs, or CTOs of successful technology companies, and who have domain expertise ranging from biology to crypto to distributed systems to security to marketplaces to financial services.

We aim to connect entrepreneurs, investors, executives, engineers, academics, industry experts, and others in the technology ecosystem. We have built a network of experts including technical and executive talent; top media and marketing resources; Fortune 500/Global 2000 companies; as well as other technology decision makers, influencers, and key opinion leaders. a16z uses this network as part of our commitment to help our portfolio companies grow their business, so our operating teams provide entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights across the entire spectrum of company building.

ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ

Led by Nick Tomaino and backed by Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Mark Cuban, and many others 1confirmation is a leading crypto fund investing in the crypto.

1confirmation

At Digital Currency Group, it is our mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system. We do this by building and supporting bitcoin and blockchain companies through our network, insights, and access to capital. 

DCG has been the most active investor in the digital currency industry, with investments in over 100 companies in 30 different countries, including market leaders such as Coinbase, Circle, Ledger, Ripple, and ShapeShift. 

We also own and operate three businesses: CoinDesk (the industry's leading media, research, and events platform), Genesis Trading (the industry's leading digital currency brokerage firm), and Grayscale Investments (the largest digital currency asset management firm and the manager of 8 products, including the first publicly traded bitcoin investment vehicle, the Bitcoin Investment Trust (symbol: GBTC)).

Digital Currency Group

Ideas By Nature is a Blockchain Agency with expertise in branding, user experience design and blockchain applications development located in Denver, Colorado. Ideas By Nature’s proficiencies include, but are not limited to: Web3, DAPPlications, Drupal, Wordpress and CMS Web Design & Development, ReactJS Development, JavaScript, NodeJS and PHP Programming, Native Web and Mobile Application Development (.NET, PHP, HTML, CSS, C+, Objective-C, iOS, Android). In addition to advanced software development at both the consumer and enterprise levels. 

Working alongside leading blockchain technology products and teams since 2013, we provide high quality custom design and solutions. We build teams and skills around our clients, augmenting and accelerating our clients products. 

Our methodology and processes for scoping are designed for cultivating and understanding an idea. Beyond that thorough understanding, we ensure that your project is completed successfully, maintaining the goals and value propositions behind each business.