Investments

Organizations

Red Beard Ventures, Democratizing VC, Investors in SuperRare, Dapper Labs. Led by Drew Austin, Aaron Kern.

Our team has been working in and around the startup ecosystem for 15+ years. Building, investing and advising startups has helped us to gain a keen sense of what really matters when building a company. We develop empathy to the founder journey that only a startup founders can have.

Red Beard Ventures

DApps

Startups

Calaxy

Tools

Stardust

Dapper Labs

SuperRare

BlockchainHub advocate, educate and discuss blockchains, smart contracts, tokens, ICOs and the Web3 through a wide array of activities.

BlockchainHub

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

FOUNDER. PRODUCT. VISION. We take risks on exceptional founders and the products they design. We believe the world can never get enough magical products and experiences. Making them requires a balance of art and technology, as well as a maniacal focus on delivering joy to the people who use them. We believe amazing products can create markets, not just find market fit. The people who make those products are creative, high-energy and are more often than not on a mission. They are technologists with the heart of an artist. Spark partners with visionary entrepreneurs who are driven to move people with the products and experiences they create. We invest in companies at all stages of their life cycle. Our most recent funds include a $400 million early-stage venture fund and a $600 million venture growth fund. In total we have $3 billion under management. We have offices in San Francisco, Boston and New York.

Spark Capital

Our venture team sources early stage investment opportunities through direct relationships, referrals from our investor members and founders, as well as connections to top startup incubators including Y Combinator, top seed stage VC firms such as First Round Capital, and top superangels. We first invest at the Seed and Series A stage, and seek to follow on in later rounds.

FundersClub

An investment firm focused exclusively on ventures related to blockchain tech and digital currency.“We believe digital currency is at an inflection point, making it the right time for a transition to more institutional management.” — Dan Morehead

Founded in 2013... As the first U.S. Bitcoin investment firm, Pantera Capital is the leading blockchain investment firm and one of the largest institutional owners of cryptocurrencies. Our mission is to act as the catalyst for widespread blockchain adoption and innovation.

Exclusively focused on investing in blockchain technologies, the Pantera team is experienced in both traditional finance and emergent blockchain technology. Having strong relationships with some of the most promising entrepreneurs and other top investors in the space, Pantera is fulfilling its strategic investment philosophy by building a diversified portfolio and bringing industry-specific value-add resources to its portfolio companies.

Within the next several years, we envision blockchains and digital currencies having an established, responsibly managed, and regulated role in the global economy, soon after disintermediating a myriad of industries.

PANTERA Capital

Accelerating the global enablement of decentralized projects through impact investing and community building.

Hashed is the largest crypto assets fund, project accelerator and community builder based out in S. Korea and San Francisco. The firm was founded by serial entrepreneurs, company operators and systems engineers; passionate about enabling the global adoption of blockchain through education, acceleration and impact investments.

Hashed operates Hashed Lounge; a premier blockchain meetup group. Hashed Post; a cryptocurrency blog interviewing founders and thought leaders. And Hashed Night; a world-class conference, events and networking brand. The team is actively working towards defining what it means to be a fundamental technology and founder focused investment startup in the blockchain ecosystem.

Hashed

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

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

BlockTower

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.

Red Beard Ventures

Led by Drew Austin, Aaron Kern.