Want success in crypto? Follow the VC’s 👍👍
Get the edge, by understanding where the smartest in the industry invest. Investing in their projects is a way to minimize getting into a rug pull project. There is a great website to get an insight into where they back their money.
Introduction
Luckily, we have a great web site to call upon to track where the venture capitalists are investing.
They have some of the smartest brains in the world deciding where to invest. Lets simply follow their investment patterns 👍
Let’s dive into some of the best venture capitalists out there:
Pantera capital
Since 2013, Pantera has invested in digital assets and blockchain companies, providing investors with the full spectrum of exposure to the space.
They launched the first cryptocurrency fund in the U.S. when bitcoin was at $65BTC in 2013. The firm subsequently launched the first blockchain-focused venture fund.
Pantera co-CIO Joey Krug co-founded Augur, one of the first decentralized applications built on Ethereum. In 2017, Pantera was the first to offer an early-stage token fund.
Their list is staggering and sometimes a little risky, so be sure to DYOR and understand your risk profile.
Jump Capital
Jump Capital is a leading VC firm. Led by a great team who take a long-term view to their investments. They also invest in early-stage companies with high potential.
They launched 9 years ago when they partnered with Jump Trading (sister company). They have since raised funding for over 100 investments, and more recently rasied a fund for $350 million.
Jump Capital is now ranked in the top-13-ranked VC’s in the USA for VC who have investments over $100 million. Their most recent claim to fame was bailing out wormhole in their $350 million hack.
Three Arrows Capital
3AC is a hedge fund established in 2012 and is focused on providing top notch risk-adjusted returns. It was founded by two mid twenties gentlemen, Kyle Davies and Su Zhu.
Most of their investment are in DeFi and Layer1s, but also include equity, funds and gaming. More recently they have added further investments into the metaverse.
Delphi Digital
Delphi Digital loves DeFi, but also invest in some of the top Layer-1s.
Becoming more interested to P2E and metaverse, you can see the importance they are placing in this environment. Delphi’s is a large investor in Yield Guild Games and All.art which has made them influential in the industry.
Alameda Research
Started by FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried, Alameda Research is a multi-strategy, quantitative trading firm with highly sophisticated trading algorithms, fast-acting traders, institutional-grade systems and infrastructure, strong relationships in TradFi.
They trade huge volumes in a various market conditions.
They are big Layer-1 investors, but also heavily invested in centralized exchanges (CEXs) and DEXs.
Animoca Brands
Animoca Brands is leading the way with popular brands, gaming, metaverse, AI, blockchain and mobile technology. They push to develop engaging apps ranging from games to fitness solutions. Animoca has become the leading gaming, metaverse and NFT VC.
I could not find them on Messari, but here is a list of their top brands.
1kx
With the worst HTML-based website on the planet, 1kx is an early-stage fund helping founders to bootstrap token networks.
Started by Lasse Clausen and Christopher Heymann, 1kx’s philosophy is:
“The grand vision of cryptoeconomics is therefore to extrapolate this success to embed cryptoeconomic incentives into everything; transactions, computation, storage, prediction, power.”
With some great investment’s, here are their top picks:
Multicoin Capital
Multicoin launched its hedge fund on October 1st, 2017 with a primary goal to accelerate the adoption of crypto. Since then, it has launched two further funds, a number of special-purpose-vehicles, and built team to support these ventures.
Multicoin’s investments include an amazing list of Layer-1 and Layer-2, cross-chain and DeFi investments.
Here is their top list of investments:
Conclusion
For 80% of my portfolio, I invest in projects backed by the big venture capitalists. They look 5 years ahead and do the research on our behalf. Although we cannot get in as early stage investors, we can ensure that what we invest in, will last.