Top 5: The world’s leading investors in Web3

The selection is based on Crunchbase data on the number of Web3 projects in the fund portfolio.

Leading Web3 Investors

Leading Web3 investors. Source: Crunchbase

Information on funds is taken from three sources: Crunchbase, Pitchbook and Golden. Data on the total amount of financing and the total number of investments in these sources may vary.

Coinbase Ventures

Country: USA

Foundation year: 2018

Total funding: $15 million

Total number of investments: 274 in 241 projects

Industries: Blockchain, Crypto, FinTech

Funding Rounds: Seed, A

Companies in the portfolio: OpenSea, Alchemy, Polygon, Raible and others

Alameda Research

Country: Hong Kong, China

Foundation year: 2017

Total funding: $177.5 million

Total number of investments: 160

Industries: Blockchain, Crypto, FinTech

Funding Rounds: Seed, A

Companies in the portfolio: 1inch, Akropolis, Coin98Finance, Solana and others

Animoca Brands

Country: Hong Kong, China

Foundation year: 2014

Total funding: $675.3 million

Total number of investments: 231

Industries: Crypto, NFT, Metaverse, Blockchain, GameDev, WebDev

Funding Rounds: Seed, A, B, C

Companies in the portfolio: Axie Infinity, OpenSea, Dapper Labs, Yield Guild Games and other

Shima Capital

Country: USA

Foundation year: 2021

Total amount of financing: $200 million

Total number of investments: 147

Industries: Blockchain, Crypto, GameDev, DAO, DeFi, Metaverse

Funding rounds: Pre-seed, Seed, A

Companies in the portfolio: DSCVR, CreatorDAO, MetaverseGo, Gunzilla Games and others

Pantera Capital

Country: USA

Foundation year: 2003

Total funding: $1 billion

Total number of investments: 200

Industries: blockchain, crypto

Funding Rounds: Seed, A, B

Companies in the portfolio: Alchemy, Near Protocol, Polkadot, Ancr