Investments

Organizations

Strangelove is an early-stage venture fund focused on DeFi protocols in the broader IBC ecosystem, validator and advisory services. Previously Pylon Validation.

It is a ​cryptocurrency venture capital firm, lab, and validator, that builds alongside the companies and technologies we invest in.

Experts

Jack Zampolin

Strangelove

Startups

Penumbra

DHVC is a VC fund that invests primarily in early stage and growth stage company with disruptive technology/business model, big market and excellent team. The fund's areas of focus include Artificial Intelligence, AR/VR, Big Data, Blockchain, Enterprise Software and other disruptive technologies. DHVC has a professional investment team with exceptional academic, industry and investment background. The founding team has been working together for over 10 years. They bring together a unique combination of education/research/entrepreneurship/capital market, extensive network in both Silicon Valley and China, and in-depth knowledge in cutting-edge technologies. Backed by top-notch institutional and strategic partners, DHVC aims to provide startup companies with a wide range of resources to achieve greater success on a global scale.

DHVC

We believe we can only build the next generation of Pillar companies if we form a trusted partnership with founders of the companies we back. From our investment terms to the capabilities and support we provide, our mission is to align every step we take, every decision we make with the interests of entrepreneurs, right from the start.

As early-stage investors, many of our companies are ideas beginning to take flight; so we are investing in the people, the founders. We look for unstoppable founders who know how to blow through walls. Founders who rally people around their vision for the future and have the ability to create a swell of momentum around a market-transforming idea.

We co-founded Pillar with a group of 17 world-class executives, who have built some of the most substantial companies in Boston with a combined total of more than $30B in enterprise value. All are investors in our fund, and are active as hands-on advisors, mentors and board members to our entrepreneurs. An investment from Pillar is an investment from them.

Our partners are serial entrepreneurs with decades of operating experience in high-growth start-ups. We know what it’s like to build a team, a product, a community of customers. We know what it’s like to pour your time, energy and resources into scaling your company. That’s why we’re so committed to helping you align with the people and capabilities you need to win.

pillar

MULTICOIN CAPITAL’S MISSION IS TO ACCELERATE THE TRANSITION FROM THE CENTRALIZED INSTITUTIONS OF THE INDUSTRIAL AGE TO THE DECENTRALIZED INSTITUTIONS OF THE INTERNET AGE.

MULTICOIN CAPITAL

Founded in 2015, Wachsman is a global professional services firm focused on the blockchain industry, representing clients valued at billions of dollars. 

With more than 100 employees working from offices in New York, Dublin, and Singapore, Wachsman provides strategic advisory, public relations consulting, events management and production, branding and creative, and corporate development services to many of the most indispensable companies in the blockchain and crypto-asset sectors.

Wachsman

Lemniscap is an investment and advisory firm specializing in investments in emerging blockchain assets and advising early stage blockchain startups.

We believe blockchain technology will upend traditional business models, resulting in profound changes in the world economy. Our singular goal is to drive this change through our services.

Our team consists of talented people with backgrounds in financial markets, PE/VC, technology and entrepreneurship. We have been involved in the space since 2014 as both investors and advisors and can leverage deep relationships with other participants in the ecosystem.

Lemniscap

Y Combinator provides seed funding for startups. Seed funding is the earliest stage of venture funding. It pays your expenses while you’re getting started. Some companies may need no more than seed funding. Others will go through several rounds. There is no right answer; how much funding you need depends on the kind of company you start.

At Y Combinator, our goal is to get you through the first phase. This usually means: get you to the point where you’ve built something impressive enough to raise money on a larger scale. Then we can introduce you to later stage investors—or occasionally even acquirers.

Y Combinator

Galaxy Digital is a full service, digital assets merchant bank.

Galaxy Digital is undertaking the Transaction in order to raise primary capital towards building a best-in-class, full service, institutional-quality merchant banking business in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space. This corporate development is an important step in the evolution of the Firm's lifecycle and provides Galaxy Digital with a strong foundation from which to build and expand its platform, network, and brand. Galaxy Digital will include Mr. Novogratz's portfolio of digital assets.

Galaxy Digital is a diversified, multi-service merchant bank dedicated to the digital assets and blockchain technology industry. Galaxy Digital’s multi-disciplinary team has extensive experience spanning investing, portfolio management, capital markets, operations, and blockchain technology. Galaxy Digital currently operates four distinct business lines, which include: Trading (arbitrage, macro, market making/OTC), Asset Management (management of external capital across passive and ecosystem funds), Principal Investing (private equity, venture, public equity, ICO investments, Pre-ICO investments, and liquid and illiquid cryptocurrencies), and Advisory (capital markets, M&A/restructuring, and technical consulting services to both start-ups and established institutions). Galaxy Digital’s CEO and Founder is Michael Novogratz. The Company is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, Vancouver, the Cayman Islands (registered office) and New Jersey.

Galaxy Digital

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.

Continue Capital excels in investments on digital currency Startups, Private Equity and HFT Funds, focus on strategic sectors including blockchain industry, innovative science and technologies.

Strangelove

Previously Pylon Validation.

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Strangelove Team

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