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- Founded: 2018
- Headquarters: New York City, New York
- AUM: 2.5 billion
With founders that have worked for both Coinbase, and Sequioa, Paradigm is an early-stage VC that invests in a range Metaverse startups. The company has invested in numerous early stage startups like Zora, Uniswap, and Royal. Typical investment size is around $1million – $100 million. With one of the biggest VC funds in the Web 3.0 space, Paradigm is looking to increasingly invest in next generation startups.
- Founded: 2014
- Headquarters: San Francisco
- AUM: $300 million
Based out of San Francisco, Outlier Ventures is a crypto dedicated, early-stage venture, crypto fund. The fund has increasingly focused on a range of Web 3.0 startups, especially in the Metaverse. They also have one of the most prominent Metaverse podcasts. The fund has also looked to increasingly invest in an open source Metaverse OS. With prominent names such as Deaduma5 and Snoop Dogg, backing/joining their venture, the company is one of the most prominent Metaverse investors in the space.
- Founded: 2017
- Headquarters: San Mateo, California
- AUM: $2 billion +
Headquartered out of San Mateo, Boost VC, is one of the most prominent investors in the Metaverse space, with investments spanning across the Web 3.0 space. Adam Draper, who founded the fund, has been increasingly looking to invest in Metaverse, and NFT’s. The fund has invested in various Metaverse projects including many Metaverse companies such as Wave, Arthur, Adventure lab, 3data etc.
- Founded: 2017
- Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
- AUM: $100 million
Based out of London, United Kingdom, Fabric Ventures invests in early-stage ventures, especially in Metaverse. They have invested in a number of Meta based projects such as Open Meta. The fund looks to invest in Series-A investments, and invests around $1-5 million per round.
- Founded: 1984
- Headquarters: New York City, New York
- AUM: $5 billion
Bain Capital ventures is the venture division within Bain Capital, it increasingly invests in startups from Series-A, through D. The fund has been increasingly looking to fund startups that involve the Metaverse. Although the fund has not made any investments in the space yet, it has raised multiple funds to focus on the area.
- Founded: 1984
- Headquarters: New York City, New York
- AUM: $5 billion
FOV Ventures is the go-to fund in Europe for ambitious founders building a startup for the Metaverse — the successor state of the Internet and a trillion dollar opportunity. We invest at the earliest stage and as a specialist fund aim to add value through our domain expertise and global network.
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- Founded: 2017
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California
- AUM: $100 million
Founded in 2017, Genblock Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm looks to invest in early-stage startups operating in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors. With an increasing focus on Metaverse, they have invested in key startups like bit.country. Terra Virtua.
- Founded: 2020
- Headquarters: Malibu, California
- AUM: NA
Based out of Malibu, California, 2Punks capital, is an early stage venture fund, focused on the Metaverse. With a recently formed fund 2Punks, is yet to make any significant investment in the Metaverse space but is looking across space to make investments. The company primarily is looking to invest in Series-A investments.
- Founded: 2019
- Headquarters: Seoul, South Korea
- AUM: $100 million
Based out of Seoul, South Korea, KB Invesments are investing in a range of early stage venture capital. They are looking to invest in a range of music and entertainment focused Metaverse platforms. Until now they have invested in startups that include names such as Stan World, a prominent K-Pop Metaverse project. Their investments usually include Series-A investments, which usually amounts to $10-$25 millions USD
- Founded: 2017
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California
- AUM: $100 million
Based out of San Francisco, the fund is primarily focused on VR and augmented reality ventures. They have teamed up with a number of platforms including GameFi, to find the next big name in Metaverse. They provide early-stage seed capital to startups, such as Replica, Wave etc.
- Founded: 2006
- Headquarters: San Diego, California
- AUM: NA
M6 Venture is a multi- family office that provides capital across the asset management space. They have recently started looking at Metaverse as a potential source of investment. They have invested in Metaverse platforms such as Digital Village, which allows you create augmented reality for a range of industries including Fashion. They have also invested in Rec Room and Wave.
- Founded: 2017
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California
- AUM: $100 million
Shima Capital, which is based out of San Francisco, is a crypto focused, early-stage venture capital fund. They have been looking to invest in the Metaverse space. They recently invested in a startup called Bit.Country, that allows users their own Metaverse community. They are looking to deploy capital across North America, and Asia primarily.
- Founded: 2017
- Headquarters: Santa Monica, California
- AUM: $100 million
Based out of Santa Monica, Struck Crypto is a crypto focused early stage venture capital firm. The company is one of the most prominent investors in the Web 3.0 space, and has made numerous investments in the Metaverse space. They usually fund Series-A rounds and were early investors in many Web 3.0 projects, including, Algorand, Mythical Games etc.
- Founded: 2017
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California
- AUM: $100 million
NOIA Capital is a Luxembourg-based asset manager. The fund has been investing in a range of startups and Metaverse projects recently including the likes of Digital Village. Although the fund primarily focuses on asset management, they also invest in Series-A rounds.
- Founded: 2006
- Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
- AUM: $100 million
Based out of London, United Kingdom, Venrex invests in a range of different stages from seed, to early-stage , and also later stage companies. The primary focus of the fund is technology and software, but the fund has recently started dabbling in the Metaverse space.
- Founded: 2021
- Headquarters: Stamford, Connecticut
- AUM: NA
Based out of Las Vegas, Nevada, and backed by Digital Currency Group, a $50 billion fund, Metaverse ventures is a Metaverse focused, early-stage VC fund. They have made two investments, one in Vegas City, and another in Artie, both Metaverse projects focusing on augmented reality. The fund has been specifically created to fund early stage Metaverse projects, and they actively looking to deploy capital in 2021.
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Animoca Brands, a Deloitte Tech Fast winner that is ranked in the Financial Times list of High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021, is a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification.
Liberty City Ventures is a venture capital fund and incubator with over $1.2 billion of assets under management. At our core we are entrepreneurs having co-founded and incubated two unicorns in the blockchain sector.
GameFi is the all-encompassing hub for game finance. The platform services blockchain gamers, investors, and traders in one Guild and Aggregator alongside a launchpad exclusively for games.
Play Ventures invest early into the most promising free-to-play game studios and games services startups from across the globe.
Fabric Ventures backs the founders of the Open Economy. Fabric has been investing in builders, businesses and digital assets from inception to scaling since 2012.
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Alexis Kerry Ohanian is an American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is best known as the co-founder and executive chairman of the social media site Reddit along with Steve Huffman and Aaron Swartz.
Mark Cuban is an American billionaire entrepreneur, television personality, and media proprietor whose net worth is an estimated $4.3 billion, according to Forbes, and ranked #177 on the 2020 Forbes 400 list.
500 Startups is an early-stage venture fund and seed accelerator founded in 2010 by Dave McClure and Christine Tsai. The fund admitted a first “class” of twelve startups to its incubator office in Mountain View, California in February.
We believe blockchain technology and the decentralized web represent the next major paradigm of computational technology. Unlike any capital asset class we’ve seen before, blockchain-based, cryptographic digital assets are unique, both individually and collectively as an asset class, and as such the pre-existing models for evaluation don’t fit.
Paradigm is an investment firm focused on supporting the great crypto/Web3 companies and protocols of tomorrow. Our approach is flexible, long term, multi-stage, and global. We often get involved at the earliest stages of formation and support our portfolio with additional capital over time.
