Coinbase is an online platform that allows merchants, consumers, and traders to transact with digital currency. It allows its users to create their own bitcoin wallets and start buying or selling bitcoins by connecting with their bank accounts. In addition, it provides a series of merchant payment processing systems and tools that support many highly-trafficked websites on the internet. Coinbase was launched in 2012 with a mission to create an open financial system for the world. It is operated from San Francisco, California.
Digital Currency Group (DCG) is a New York City-based company that invests in and supports businesses within the bitcoin and blockchain sectors. With more than 150 investments across over 30 countries, DCG plays a significant role in fostering innovation in the digital currency industry. The company owns and operates several key entities, including CoinDesk, a leading media and events platform focused on blockchain, Genesis Trading, a prominent bitcoin brokerage firm, and Grayscale Investments, which is recognized as the largest digital currency asset management firm. Through its extensive network and access to capital, DCG aims to advance the development of digital currency technologies and promote their adoption.
Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies and companies in the space. Bitcoin is an entirely new thing – a “post-currency” ledger – that is borderless, secure, low-cost and which allows virtually instantaneous payment and transfer. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money, and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.
Until 2014, Pantera focused on global macro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies and companies in the space.
Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.
Fenbushi Capital is a prominent blockchain-focused venture capital firm based in Shanghai, established in 2015 by experienced professionals from both blockchain and traditional finance sectors. As the first and most active firm of its kind in Asia, Fenbushi has invested in over 60 innovative projects across four continents, utilizing blockchain technology to transform various industries, including finance, healthcare, supply chain, and consumer goods. The firm aims to promote healthy and sustainable growth within the global blockchain ecosystem and engages as a long-term strategic partner to the companies in its portfolio.
Collaborative Fund aims to be the leading source of capital and strategic support for creative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. The fund focuses on two themes: the increasing importance of values as they relate to the decisions people make about who they work for, what they buy, and how they spend their time; and the shift from an economy based on hyper-consumption to one based on Collaborative Consumption. These two forces present a significant opportunity for new technologies, products, and services to reinvent how society conducts business and transform daily lives. According to published reports, investors in the $6 million fund include GM O'Connell, Nicholas Negroponte, Jason Krikorian (co-founder of Sling Media), Ben Goldhirsh (heir to the Inc. Magazine fortune), and Brendan Synnot (founder of the 'Bear Naked' and 'Revelry' brands).
Outlier Ventures is a venture platform that invests in early-stage ventures led by driven entrepreneurs aiming to build transformative companies. Established in 2013 as Europe's first venture firm dedicated to blockchain technology, Outlier Ventures supports the development and growth of emerging technologies. With a focus on the convergence of decentralized technologies with advancements like AI, robotics, and IoT, the company aims to create a new open and decentralized data infrastructure for the next internet paradigm, "Web 3.0". The firm's team of specialists in token economics, research, legal, marketing, and technology provide support to seed and growth stage startups, as well as larger businesses committed to this vision. Based in London and with a global presence in Toronto, Chicago, and Amsterdam, Outlier Ventures offers an acceleration program, Base Camp 3, providing office space, legal, and back-office support to pre-seed projects to help them define and build their vision.
Founded in 2009, East Ventures is a Tokyo-headquartered investment firm with an office in Singapore and Indonesia, targeting early-stage technology companies.
EV Growth is a joint venture between East Ventures, SMDV and YJ Capital that focuses on providing growth capital to startups in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia with an industry agnostic focus. The joint venture was started in March 2018.
Tiger Global Management, LLC is an investment firm that deploys capital globally. The firm’s fundamentally oriented investments focus primarily on the global Internet, technology, telecom, media consumer and industrial sectors. The private equity strategy has a ten-year investment horizon and targets growth-oriented private companies. The public equity efforts emphasize deep due diligence on individual companies and long-term secular themes.
As a Firm, Tiger Global values integrity, intellectual honesty, continuous improvement, process over outcome, teamwork, the drive to be world class, and long-term thinking.
Tiger Global Management, LLC was founded in 2001 and is based in New York with affiliate offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangalore and Melbourne.
Paradigm is a San Francisco-based investment firm specializing in cryptocurrency assets. With a focus on the crypto market, Paradigm provides investment services tailored to this emerging sector.