Investments

Organizations

Maelstrom is the family office of Arthur Hayes. We invest in cool shit with a focus on crypto and digital assets.

Arthur Hayes

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EtherFi

AngelList is where the world meets startups. Find a great startup job, invest in a startup, or raise money, build their teams, and launch their products.

Over $750M raised by over 2,000 startups. Over 10k matches/week between job seekers and companies.

Substantial learning and network building opportunities due to the places that AngelList and Product Hunt hold at the center of the startup ecosystem.

AngelList

Bitwise is the world’s first cryptocurrency index fund.

Bitwise

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

Ground X seeks to construct a world where the inherent worth and potential of each person is realized through cutting-edge technology. To that end, Ground X is constantly striving to identify the issues and needs that market and consumers are confronted with. By providing technology-based solutions to our market and consumers, we will create the real value. This, you see, is the kind of future designed by Ground X.‎

While many are discussing the computation speed for the next stage of blockchain technology, yet they are overlooking the convenience of companies and users who will use blockchain platform in the market. Based on our technologies and experience in implementing various global services(e.g., KAKAO), Ground X platform will provide an enterprise-friendly development environment, optimized computation speed and scalability, as well as UX / UI that is convenient for general users.

Ground X

1kx is an early stage token fund built upon the above thesis. Run by two former technology founders Lasse Clausen and Christopher Heymann, its mission is to be the most founder friendly and helpful source of early stage capital for tokenized projects.

The Ethereum Foundation’s mission is to promote and support Ethereum platform and base layer research, development and education to bring decentralized protocols and tools to the world that empower developers to produce next generation decentralized applications (dapps), and together build a more globally accessible, more free and more trustworthy Internet.

The Ethereum Foundation

BLOCKCHAIN.com is the world’s most popular way to buy, sell, and trade crypto. Trusted by millions since 2011 with over $800 Billion in crypto transactions.

BLOCKCHAIN

Loans backed by your cryptocurrency. Loans for Bitcoin and Ether. Get dollars today using your crypto as collateral - without having to sell it.

​​BlockFi offers the ability to leverage cryptocurrency to obtain USD loans. The company operates in over 45 U.S. states and is backed by leading investors Galaxy Digital Ventures LLC, ConsenSys Ventures, and SoFi. BlockFi was founded by Zac Prince and Flori Marquez in 2017 and started lending in January 2018. Learn more about their company and team at BlockFi.com.

BlockFi

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.

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