Investments

Organizations

SparkleVentures is Web3 focused VC.  Supported by pioneers The Sandbox and Animoca Brands.

SparkleVentures

Lighthouse Labs

Kinetix

At Samsung NEXT, we partner with innovators to build ideas into products, grow products into businesses and scale businesses that leverage and transform the Samsung ecosystem.

New technologies, new business models and new consumer habits create change, and with change come opportunities for entrants to become leaders. We invest in, build, partner with and acquire startups to create opportunities and ensure that Samsung is a part of these new value streams.

We all know software is eating the world; now machine learning is eating software. This reality is not only changing the ways computers are impacting human lives but also how the systems are built. This fundamental shift affects how our digital and physical worlds connect, how machines help us accomplish tasks and how we interact with the machines.

The growth of sensors and computing at the connected edge are creating a path towards a further decentralized computing network. The cloud as we know it will no longer sustain the velocity, variety, and volume of data originating at the edge. Architectures and workflows will be stressed to the point where a new model is required.

Samsung NEXT

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

Republic is the first platform to offer a full-stack fundraising solution in the crypto space. Wherever your investors are, whatever the raise, our services are here to help.

Invest in startups on a leading equity crowdfunding platform. Simple. Regulated. Proven.

Republic

The emergence of bitcoin and subsequent blockchain technologies has generated a new digital asset class in which scarcity is based on mathematical properties. Through cryptographic verification and game-theoretic equilibrium, blockchain-based digital assets can be created, issued, and transmitted using software. Polychain is an investment firm committed to exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.

Polychain Capital

Empowering The Open Financial System. Coinbase Ventures invests in companies building the open financial system.

Coinbase Ventures

Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that encourages entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness, to transform industries with new technologies and to build platform for extraordinary growth, jobs and wealth creation.

Draper Associates

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that is engaged in the consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It is focused in seed, early stage, later stage, expansion stage, start-up, growth companies, and incubation and has specialized in debt financing for start-up and growth companies.

Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in various sectors: enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social. It mainly invests in countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India.Lightspeed Venture Partners was founded in 2000 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in Beijing, China; Shanghai, China; New Delhi, India; and Herzelia Pituach, Israel.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

We offer our clients diversified exposure to ventures, tokens, and projects related to blockchain tech, digital currency, and crypto assets. The Fund's investors benefit from our access and diligence with our principal-based approach into technology, economics, game theory, and code. 

Our unique understanding of the space and developed connections to have first priority access to particular deals due to connected platforms serving as the foundation for many projects. We understand the cyclicality of these markets giving us the ability to actively trade and take advantage of the inefficiencies faster than individuals passively investing.

The relationships we have developed within the space have given us proprietary deal flow access, and with the era of regular people getting into amazing ICOs coming to end this creates another huge opportunity for our firm to capitalize on as well. Not to mention the KYC issues projects eliminate by taking capital from us rather than an individual.

Limitless Crypto Investments

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.

SparkleVentures

Web3 focused VC.