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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Blockchain startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Shima Capital | Early Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
Graph Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Palo Alto, California, United States, North America | ||
Blockchain Capital | Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
Benhamou Global Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Palo Alto, California, United States, North America | ||
Paradigm | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America |
At SeedRound we track over 200,000 investors and over 1,000,000 people who hold key positions in these firms. We use this directory of investors to highlight top employees, LP’s and funding organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top Blockchain Seed investors in California. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Blockchain Investors & Funds (California)
Shima Capital
Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting cutting-edge blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Graph Ventures
Graph Ventures is an investment group that specializes in seed and early-stage venture investments. It was founded in 2011. Investments include: * BetterUp * Birdies * BlueApron * Dapper Labs * Earnin * Envoy * Hinge * Houseparty * Ipsy * Loft * Lever * Lingokids * Moon Express * Papaya * PicsArt * Porch * Quinto Andar * RideOS * Saildrone * Very Good Security * VivaReal * Zeplin
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, B2B, Blockchain, Consumer, Developer Tools, Education, FinTech
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Blockchain Capital
Blockchain Capital was founded in 2013 with the mission of helping entrepreneurs build world-class companies and projects based on blockchain technology. The firm provides founders with capital, domain expertise, partnerships, recruiting, and strategy. Blockchain Capital is an active venture investor in the blockchain industry and has financed 75+ companies and projects since its inception. Blockchain Capital invests in both equity and tokens and is a multi-stage investor.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance, FinTech
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Benhamou Global Ventures
Benhamou Global Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. The firm works with passion and commitment to building valuable companies. It places particular emphasis on cloud technologies; virtual and software-defined networking; productivity-based applications; cybersecurity, mobility, and the Internet of Things. In 2004, Eric Benhamou founded the firm in Palo Alto, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Paradigm
Paradigm is a crypto-focused investment firm based in San Francisco. It invests in crypto-assets and businesses from the earliest stages of idea formation through to maturity.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Aurelia Ventures
B2B Accelerator & VC. We supercharge B2B software founders. Our goal is to increase your sales, hire the right people, get investors for your follow-on rounds and extend your runway with $1.25M+ in perks & benefits.
Stages: Angel to Series A
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: AI/ML, Fintech, Cybersecurity, Big Data
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Navitas Capital
Navitas is focused on making venture capital investments in early-stage real estate and construction technologies. It leverages its unique domain expertise, corporate partners, and industry relationships to create a self-reinforcing cycle of value within our network. Whether helping a portfolio company with an introduction, partnership opportunity, capital raise or strategy, it always seeks to add value as part of their investments.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Culver City, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Construction, FinTech, Mobile, Predictive Analytics, Smart Building, Virtual Reality
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Oyster Ventures
Oyster Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in exceptional new-frontier technology companies. They target companies that bring liquidity and efficiency to antiquated industries, companies that enable globalization, with leverage to massively scale. It also specializes in early-stage investments in startups in fintech, with a focus on blockchain, crypto, E-commerce, market place, artificial intelligence, fintech, media tech, and SaaS companies. Oyster Ventures was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, FinTech, Venture Capital
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gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC)
gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC) is a blockchain and cryptographic asset thesis fund that invests in the crypto native stack from L1 to the application layer, as well as in traditional businesses supporting the ecosystem. gCC is backed by gumi Inc., a listed mobile game developer and publisher, as well as a number of other public Japanese companies (across various industries). With the platform, resources and network of gumi Inc. and our LPs, combined with gCC’s presence as an established Silicon Valley crypto fund, we provide unique strategic value-add to our portfolio companies and crypto partners in both the Asia-Pacific and U.S. markets.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Robot Ventures
Robot Ventures is a (pre-)seed investor in exceptional fintech and blockchain companies led by founders with big ambitions, and contrarian worldviews.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Chapter One Ventures
Chapter One Ventures is an early-stage seed fund created by Jeff Morris Jr.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Business Development, Cryptocurrency, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Race Capital
Race Capital is an early stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Race Capital is focused on enterprise computing including: data infrastructure, collaboration, open source, privacy, security, automation, and fintech Infrastructure.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Privacy, Venture Capital
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Archimedes Labs
archimedes labs works with startup founders to help establish the foundations for significant business success and associated fund raises. archimedes is the personal vehicle of Keith Teare – US partner of Accelerated Digital Ventures. It has existed since 2005. Archimedes I was between 2005 and 2010. It was a joint initiative of Keith Teare and Michael Arrington. TechCrunch and edgeio were incubated there. Archimedes II was between 2011 and 2015 it invested in a portfolio that included Quixey (share sold to Alibaba in 2013); M.Dot (sold to GoDaddy); Kwicr (sold to Instart) Archimedes III has existed since 2016. It is now the primary personal vehicle of Keith Teare and has significant equity stakes in Miles; InFarm, Butterfly.ai and other companies in its elevation program. Archimedes is always focused on the the next platform for software led companies. Today that includes blockchain, AI and spacial computing.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Augmented Reality, Blockchain, Cloud Data Services, Cloud Infrastructure, Consumer Software, Machine Learning, Mobile
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Stellar Development Foundation
Stellar Development Foundation is a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable network for financial products and services. It is both a cross-currency transaction system and a platform for digital asset issuance, designed to connect the world’s financial infrastructure. Dozens of financial institutions worldwide issue assets and settle payments on the Stellar network, which has grown to over 4 million accounts. The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar. Founded in 2014, the Foundation maintains Stellar’s codebase, supports the technical and business communities building on the network, and serves as a voice to regulators and institutions. The Foundation seeks to create equitable access to the global financial system, using the Stellar network to unlock the world’s economic potential through blockchain technology.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Non Profit, Payments
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Draper Goren Holm
Draper Goren Holm is a fintech venture studio focused on incubating and accelerating early-stage blockchain startups, founded by Alon Goren and Josef Holm. Josef and Alon are the same team that has built two of the world’s top blockchain investment conferences; Crypto Invest Summit (CIS) and Security Token Summit.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Westlake Village, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, FinTech
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YellowRockets
YellowRockets.vc is a managing company for international and russian venture capital funds. The fund focused on startups at Pre-Seed, Seed, and Round A-stages with a strong team and the potential for international expansion, and invest in them up to $2M. YellowRockets helps portfolio companies enter the U.S. and Latin American markets and attract investments in the next rounds. Funds focused on (but are not limited to) investments in companies in SaaS, Super Apps, Marketplaces, RPA, Metaverse, ESG, and based on AI/ML, Automation, Cloud Solutions, Data Processing, and Blockchain technologies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, EdTech, FinTech, Gaming, Internet of Things, Robotics, SaaS
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Chainfund Capital
Chainfund Capital is a Global FinTech Fund that invests in the next generation of financial technology. It has made 30 investments in researchers that are tackling problems across scalability, privacy, and formal verification. Chainfund supports its portfolio companies with an accelerator program to scale their technology to millions of users. It is based in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Internet
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Dekrypt Capital
A blockchain investment firm with an emphasis on privacy preserving protocols and early-stage ventures. Dekrypt Capital invest in, mentor, and accelerate teams developing novel solutions to address the core issues of scalability, privacy, and usability for decentralized protocols and applications. The team works on cryptography and computer security research with a focus in zero knowledge proofs alongside professors at UC Berkeley and founded Blockchain at Berkeley, the largest university ecosystem for blockchain technology in the United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Berkeley, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Finance, Financial Services
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Kraken
Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange that provides spot and futures trading between Bitcoin, Ethereum and 40+ other digital assets.Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. Founded in 2011 and with over 7 million clients, Kraken is one of the world’s largest, most successful bitcoin exchanges and we’re growing faster than ever. Our range of successful products are playing an important role in the mainstream adoption of crypto assets.Kraken is a marketplace for digital assets where buyers, sellers, traders and speculators come together to exchange cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Ripple against national currencies like USD, EUR, CAD and JPY. Clients trading larger sizes benefit from our principal Over-the-Counter (OTC) desk and white glove service. Advanced traders and technical analysis wizards can take advantage of our professional charting tools. Software engineers, botters and hobbyist automators have available both REST and Websocket APIs with which trades can be made and market information obtained. Kraken provides 24/7 live chat support for any questions you have about getting started.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum, FinTech, Trading Platform
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Wave Financial Group
Wave Financial is a digital asset management firm with a unique combination of investment management, trading, and venture capital competencies. https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/305726
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Asset Management, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Block Ventures
Block Ventures is a venture capital firm; investing across all regions and sectors of blockchain technology – including initial coin offerings, cryptocurrency and dApps. From seed stage to growth investment, we have invested in some of the most successful and important blockchain technology companies. We help ambitious companies to think big and succeed. We partner with disruptive founders to accelerate their ideas to market.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
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Blockchain Coinvestors
Launched in 2014, our goal is to provide broad coverage of the emerging unicorns and fastest growth blockchain companies and crypto projects. The strategy is now in its 9th year and has to date invested in more than 40 pure play blockchain venture funds in the Americas, Asia, and Europe; and in a combined portfolio of 400+ blockchain and crypto projects including approximately 50% of all blockchain unicorns. Our funds rank in the top decile amongst all funds in their respective categories on both Pitchbook and Preqin. Headquartered in San Francisco with a presence in Grand Cayman, London, New York, Zug, and Zurich, the alternative investment management firm was co-founded by Alison Davis and Matthew Le Merle.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain
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Tokensoft
TokenSoft is the leading technology platform for companies seeking to issue and manage digital securities on the blockchain, at scale, and within compliance. It supports the highest standards for regulation and compliance, regardless of jurisdiction. TokenSoft’s platform offers a bespoke suite of technology and consulting services to meet the needs of the entire lifecycle of a digital security, including onboarding, distribution, custody, and ongoing administration. TokenSoft is building infrastructure to automate investment banking of security tokens on blockchains for equity, funds, real estate, and fixed-income debt. It also enables the distribution and transfer of blockchain-based securities. They provide the tools necessary to securely run a compliant token sale.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, FinTech, Software
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Natural Bridges Ventures (NBV)
We partner with global disruptors and bridge exceptional ideas and passion for solving hard challenges with the future of business innovation and growing markets. NBV brings simplification of organizational and venture development processes to nurture and integrate innovation into complex business ecosystems through the implementation of design-centric principles.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Cruz, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Enterprise Software, Innovation Management, Internet of Things, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Outliers Fund
Outliers was originally a special interest group (SIG) for SciFi-inspired research at MIT. We imagineered science fiction into scientific prototypes and published scientific papers as a student-run research community. 20 students syndicated $2M and elected Poseidon as a GP for Outliers Fund I. We read 880+ papers, tokenomics, smart contracts, advised 160+ startups, invested and exited 32 deals (16.2x from 2016 to 2018) With these research foundation and venture experience, we founded Outliers Lab #1 to incubate 9 startups with $100M+ raised, two filing IPO, invested and exited 6 deals as Outliers Fund II (11.2x from 2018 to 2021) We raised $20M for Outliers Fund III, structured $20M ecosystem funds with XYO, Conflux, Cipholio and deployed Fund III on Ethereum via Syndicate and are shipping the fund terms / operations on smart contracts. We are incorporating security / governance / non-fungible tokens and recruiting 99 researchers / founders / investors as founding members to OutliersDAO, a collective intelligence & community-driven venture DAO.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Finance, Space Travel, Venture Capital
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MouseBelt
When other accelerators expect you to become experts in development, marketing, and business development during their program, we have an internal team to help you hands-on. Creating a unique full-service blockchain startup accelerator model, where we go beyond cash investments. When you need development, we have developers. When you need partnerships and real-world adoption, our business development specialists will land those partnerships for you. When you need marketing, our in-house experts will handle it for you. Our unique model attracted great companies for our first batch, classOne. Companies in classOne: Pledgecamp Stardust Co-Lab ReviewChain
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Digital Marketing, Finance, Incubators, Marketing, Venture Capital
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Bolden Ventures
Private Equity Firm with a focus in Open-source Technology, Web3 Services, Health & Wellness brands and Computer Science.
Stages: Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States, North America
Industries: Basketball, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Food and Beverage, Impact Investing, Information Technology, Mobile Apps, Venture Capital, Wellness
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3DFund.com
3D Fund focuses on investments with visionary leaders, enablers, coders of disruptive innovation. 3D Fund’s greatest example of a visionary leader is Satoshi Nakamoto’s hard work and vision that has spawned investments into Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Altcoins, Distributed Ledgers, Mining, Hashing, Forks, Private Key, Public Key, Decentralized Exchanges, Wallets, Fungible Tokens, NFT, DefI, Cefi, GameFi, etc.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Location: San Diego, California, United States, North America
Industries: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, FinTech
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Christopher Sanchez & Co.
Stages: Seed, Venture
Location: La Jolla, California, United States, North America
Industries: Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Blockchain, Food and Beverage, Machine Learning, Manufacturing, Quantum Computing, Venture Capital, Virtual Reality
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