Investments

Organizations

BT Growth Capital LLC (“BTGC”) was formed in 2018 by seven private equity and growth equity professionals. We make seed investments in early stage start-up companies.

BT Growth Capital

360 Mining

BlockTower is a leading cryptocurrency investment firm, bringing professional trading and portfolio management to an emerging digital asset class.

BlockTower

Variant is an early-stage venture firm investing in crypto networks & platforms building The Ownership Economy.

Variant

CoLab is IDEO's platform for collaborative impact. We connect organizations to shape technology's impact on the world. Together, we design the future.

IDEO CoLab

We invest in the Ethereum powered decentralized future. ConsenSys Ventures empowers entrepreneurs creating the building blocks of Web 3.0.

ConsenSys Ventures is the external investment arm of ConsenSys, investing in pre-seed and seed stage Ethereum projects across the Web 3.0 stack.

Sector and geography agnostic, ConsenSys Ventures is building a circular economy whereby each portfolio company feeds into one another while supporting ConsenSys and the broader Ethereum ecosystem.

ConsenSys Ventures

Binance Labs is a social impact fund and an initiative to incubate, invest, and empower blockchain and cryptocurrency entrepreneurs, projects, and communities. Our mission is to solve the problems that matter most to the ecosystem and change the world for the better.

Binance Labs

We help build foundations for great businesses with a support platform providing founders at all stages with what they need, when they need it.

The House Fund is a pre-seed and seed stage venture capital fund investing in Berkeley's top student, faculty, and alumni startups. It helps build foundations for great businesses with a support platform providing founders at all stages with what they need, when they need it. It is working with exceptional founders to build the next generation of Berkeley’s top startups through our affiliated venture fund (The House Fund), accelerator program (The House Residency), and student community.

The House

DCM is a venture capital firm with over $3 billion under management. Since 1996, we have invested in more than 325 technology companies across the U.S. and Asia. With offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo, DCM empowers our entrepreneurs with hands-on operational guidance and a global network of business and financial resources.

Kindred Ventures supports emerging founders and world-changing startups at the earliest of stages.

Founded by Steve Jang, a serial entrepreneur and angel investor based in San Francisco, California. Steve served as an early advisor and investor at Uber and was an early investor in Coinbase, Blue Bottle Coffee, and Virgin Hyperloop One. Steve is a co-founder at Out There Labs, a decentralized app studio, and previously was the founder of SoundTracking (acquired by Rhapsody) and co-creator of imeem (acquired by MySpace).

As a product-focused entrepreneur, Steve has served as a founder, executive, and board member at several technology startups from inception to acquisition. Most recently, he was an investor and board director at WillCall (acquired by Ticketfly/Pandora), and a co-founder and creator of SoundTracking, a social music recognition & discovery app, that was recognized by Apple as the Best iPhone Music App in the US in 2011 (acquired by Rhapsody International). Before that, he was the co-creator of imeem, the world's first on-demand ad-supported music streaming service which reached over 100 million monthly users before its acquisition by MySpace.

As an early-stage startup advisor, Steve has served as an early Advisor to Uber, the leading ride-sharing and transportation network, since its founding in 2009, and Advisor to Expa, a startup studio and incubator based in San Francisco and New York, since its inception in 2013.

Today, Steve invests in early stage startups in software, hardware, and retail/consumer brand sectors, from the Kindred Ventures fund.

Kindred Ventures

Our vision for the web is that it becomes more decentralised, immutable and permanent. We want to support entrepreneurs upgrading the internet.

The empowerment of users: entrepreneurs have long been democratising technology; that, in turn is democratising capabilities, empowering users and organisations to do things they couldn’t before, or do them a lot better, cheaper and faster. Over time these enabling technologies can evolve into meaningful platforms and / or networks. Even though a lot of empowerment has happened through desktop and mobile internet, we think we are just getting started.

The liberation of data: entrepreneurs can make data more free, usable, portable and positively influence the balance of power over data. We think a lot of interesting things will happen at the intersection of control, value and meaning from data for both individuals and organisations.

So we are trying not to think of the world too much in terms of specific sectors — but rather what the macro level economic and social changes are that technology is driving. There are a few other things we are excited about and we’ll make sure to keep an open mind. And of course we are most excited about the opportunity to work with entrepreneurs every day. This is why we get out of bed in the morning and don’t mind chewing through a topic on 2am on a Saturday morning.

At its core BlueYard is a product for entrepreneurs, everything follows from that. That is our guiding principle.

BT Growth Capital

Seed investments in start-ups.