Investments

Organizations

Graph Ventures, Early-stage fund for founders, by founders. We are a group of founders & operators with experience starting and scaling technology co's globally. 200+ investments.

Graph Ventures

dcSpark

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Startups

Hashdex

Lunchclub

Dapper Labs

Robinhood Crypto

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

Benchmark is an early stage venture capital firm focused on social, mobile, local and cloud companies.  We believe that great entrepreneurs change the world for the better. Since its founding in 1995, Benchmark has invested in more than 250 early stage startups with a market value exceeding $100 billion.  Investments have included eBay, Juniper Networks, MySQL, OpenTable, Yelp, Inc., Zillow, Friendster, JAMDAT, Instagram, Hortonworks, Dropbox, Uber, Twitter, Zipcar, Asana, Quora, Gaikai, Demandforce and DOMO.  Benchmark has offices in Menlo Park and San Francisco, California.

Benchmark

PARADIGM, a cryptocurrency hedge fund founded by Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam, former Sequoia Capital partner Matt Huang, and Pantera Capital veteran Charles Noyes. Yale’s endowment is the second-largest in higher education and is run by David Swenson, a world-class investment manager that began Yale’s endowment with a “meager” $1 billion.

PARADIGM

An early stage venture capital fund based in NYC with a global focus. Venture fund focused on decentralized technology and humanizing data in healthcare, financial services, media, commerce. Founded by Jalak Jobanputra.

Future Perfect Ventures

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based seed fund. We help portfolio companies with business development, financing, M&A and other strategic advice.

SV Angel

Fabric Ventures, a new VC fund backed by OpenOcean and Firestartr, is adapting the traditional long-term venture approach to investing in scalable decentralised networks. It is building on OpenOcean’s peerless open source pedigree and Firestartr’s background in seed investing & blockchain focus, and is backing the boldest projects forming the foundation of the “Fourth Age of Open Source”.

Fabric 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.

BlueYard

Consensus Systems is a venture production studio building decentralized applications and various developer and end-user tools for blockchain ecosystems, focusing primarily on Ethereum.

ConsenSys

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