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This list showcases the top United States based General Partner operating in the Blockchain space. If you think a General Partner is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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.
Eric Benhamou
Founder & General Partner of Benhamou Global Ventures
Eric Benhamou is the CEO and founder of Benhamou Global Ventures, LLC. Benhamou Global Ventures, started in 2003, invests and plays an active role in innovative high tech firms throughout the world. He is an adjunct professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD. He is also a visiting professor at IDC Herzliya’s Arison School of Business. He served as chairman of the board of directors of Palm, Inc. from 1999 until 2007 and as chief executive officer of Palm from 2001 until 2003. Benhamou served as chief executive officer of 3Com Corporation from 1990 until 2000 and as chairman of the board of directors until its sale to HP in April 2010. Previously, he held a variety of senior management positions at 3Com. In 1981, Mr. Benhamou co-founded Bridge Communications, an early networking pioneer, and was vice president of engineering until its merger with 3Com in 1987. In 2003, Eric Benhamou was appointed to the Joint High Level Advisory Panel of the U.S.- Israel Science and Technology Commission by U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans. He currently serves as chairman of the board of Cypress Semiconductor and as a member of the board of RealNetworks, Inc and of Silicon Valley Bancshares. He serves on the board of directors of several privately held companies. He is the chairman of the Israel Venture Network, a venture philanthropy organization for a stronger Israeli society. Eric Benhamou received a Masters degree from Stanford University’s School of Engineering. He also holds a Diplome d’Ingénieur and a doctorate from Arts et Metiers ParisTech.
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About Benhamou Global Ventures, IDC Herzliya: Benhamou Global Ventures is a venture capital firm sourcing startups to build them into the next-generation of B2B technology companies.
Eric Buatois
General Partner of Benhamou Global Ventures
Eric joined Sofinnova Ventures as a General Partner in 2001 with more than 20 years of experience in the wireless industry. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, he held several senior management and operational roles at Texas Instruments, Hewlett-Packard and Ericsson, also having negotiated, created and managed a joint venture in Sweden between H-P and Ericsson. In his corporate roles, Eric pioneered and developed several very successful products such as Texas Instruments’ digital signal processors for the cellular market, Hewlett-Packard’s telecommunications products Opencall and Openview, and Ericsson’s operational support systems for telecom networks. Eric has also driven several acquisitions and major partnering activities. At Sofinnova Ventures, Eric specializes in investment in the wireless ecosystem. He is a lead investor who truly enjoys building global companies and has demonstrated experience in executing spin-outs from large companies. He actively serves on the boards of companies in the US and in Europe, including Cortina Systems, Crestatech, Crocus Technology, Hellosoft (acquired by Imagination Technologies, LSE: IMG), Laszlo Systems, Upek (Acquired by AuthenTec, Nasdaq: AUTH) and Volubill. Eric served as Chairman of the Board of Upek from inception until 2009, Chairman of Crocus Technology from inception until Janaury 2010, and is currently Chairman of Laszlo systems. Eric Buatois holds an M.S. in Computer Science and Communications Engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in France.
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About Benhamou Global Ventures: Benhamou Global Ventures is a venture capital firm sourcing startups to build them into the next-generation of B2B technology companies.
Anik Bose
General Partner of Benhamou Global Ventures
Anik Bose is a General Partner at BGV. BGV is an early stage venture fund that assists entrepreneurs in building a new generation of high technology companies. Prior to joining BGV, he headed business development at 3Com – in this role he managed a $250MM corporate venture fund, spearheaded dozens of venture capital investments and executed numerous M&A transactions. Key venture investments include – Mesh Networks (acquired by Motorola), Parthus (IPO), Cicada Semiconductor (acquired by Vitesse), Microtune (IPO), ADMTek (acquired by Infineon), Atrica (acquired by Nokia/Siemens), Sheer Networks (acquired by Cisco), Air Prime (Acquired by Sierra Wireless), Healthetec (IPO) and Intransa. Most recently Mr. Bose architected the launch of H3C (3Com’s joint venture with Huawei), which achieved annual revenues of over $700 million and a market valuation of $1.8Bn within 36 months of launch. Prior to joining 3Com, Mr. Bose served as a Partner in the High Technology Practice of Deloitte Management Consulting in San Francisco. Mr. Bose holds a MBA from Boston College and BA in Economics from the University of Delhi, India.
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About Benhamou Global Ventures: Benhamou Global Ventures is a venture capital firm sourcing startups to build them into the next-generation of B2B technology companies.
Poseidon Ho
Founder & General Partner of Outliers Fund
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About Outliers Fund: A collective of joint research initiatives and venture funds turning science fiction into scientific facts.
Jennifer Vancini
General Partner of Mighty Capital
Jennifer has over 20 years of experience across a broad range of technologies, with extensive experience in the mobile and security industries. She has held management and executive roles in start-ups and innovation units of large organizations including Price Waterhouse, Nokia, VASCO Data Security and Telefonica. She looks for teams that can execute their go-to-market strategies.
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About Mighty Capital: A Silicon Valley venture capital firm that invests in companies building products that transform lives and create value at scale.
Phil Chen
General Partner of Race Capital
Phil is a technology explorer and global citizen. As head of HTC’s business and corporate development, Phil has led investments into KKBox (#1 music service in Asia), Soundhound, Magnet and the acquisition of Beats electronics. Most recently, Phil founded VR at HTC. Prior to HTC, Phil was VP of Product for the Alex eReader and founded Glo Bible. Before his corporate endeavors, Phil built schools and orphanages in Afghanistan, Africa, and China and worked as a research assistant at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Phil holds a B.A and B.S in Pure Mathematics and Physics from UCSD, and an M.Div on Postmodern Philosophy from Fuller Seminary. His biggest return is from his role as father of Miles & Naomi.
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About Presence Capital, Race Capital: Race Capital is an early stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley.
Chris McCann
General Partner of Race Capital
Chris McCann is the Partner at Race Capital.
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About Race Capital, StartupDigest: Race Capital is an early stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley.
Edith Yeung
General Partner of Race Capital
Edith is a venture capitalist, technology executive, and creator of the China Internet Report, and Silicon News. Edith is a General Partner at Race Capital – an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund. A few sectors we are particularly interested in infrastructure, fintech, and deep tech verticals. She has invested in over 50 startups including Agora.io (Nasdaq: API), Lightyear/Stellar (valued $1.2B), Silk Labs (acquired by Apple), Chirp (acquired by Apple), Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox), Solana, Oasis Labs, Hooked, DayDayCook, AISense, and many more. Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world’s most active early-stage fund and incubator invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies. Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia-backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk. She frequently speaks on China and Silicon Valley technology and the investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, etc.
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About MoboTap, Race Capital, RightVentures: Race Capital is an early stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley.
Alfred Chuang
General Partner of Race Capital
Alfred Chuang is the General Partner of Race Capital. An SF based early-stage venture capital fund. Previously, Mr. Chuang was a founder of BEA Systems Inc., a leader provider of enterprise infrastructure middleware products. During his tenure he managed just about every aspect of the company before becoming CEO in October 2001. Mr. Chuang became BEA’s chairman of the board where he remained until BEA was sold to Oracle in 2008 for 8.5 billion dollars. Mr. Chuang also worked at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he had held management positions in the critical areas of software product development, systems architecture, and operations management for over 9 years. He pioneered and prototyped the implementation of TCP/IP on the IBM PC platform.
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About Magnet Beauty, Magnet Beauty, Race Capital: Race Capital is an early stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley.
Miko Matsumura
General Partner of gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC)
Miko Matsumura is a General Partner at gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC) a blockchain focused venture capital firm
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About 21st Century Internet Group. Inc., BitBull Capital, Evercoin, gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC): gumi Cryptos Capital is a blockchain and cryptographic asset venture fund
Mark Casady
Co-Founder and General Partner of Vestigo Ventures
Mark Casady is the Co-Founder, General Partner, and Chairman of the Advisory Board at Vestigo Ventures.
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About Vestigo Ventures: Vestigo Ventures is a Seed and Early-stage FinTech focused VC firm.
Hanieh Sadat
General Partner of GenesysOne Ventures
Hanieh Sadat is the former VP of Morgan Stanley, Private Wealth Management. She has been trading traditional assets and managing portfolios for a select group of family offices and institutions since 2006. She is the founder of ImpactX – a token generation event advisory firm for impact projects and securing TGE (token generation event) deals for international investors in the past year. Hanieh drives the fund’s capital raising, deal flow, networking, strategic partnerships, and more.
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About GenesysOne Ventures: GenesysOne is a boutique hedge fund that specialises in providing institutional access to digital assets.
Kate Mitselmakher
CEO, Founder & General Partner of Bloccelerate
Kate Mitselmakher is the CEO, Founder & General Partner of Bloccelerate VC, a blockchain fund and an accelerator looking to invest in 50-100 blockchain companies over the next 5 years. Bloccelerate is a team of serial investors, entrepreneurs, and executives from Fortune 500 companies passionate about supporting entrepreneurs in blockcjain space. Prior to starting Bloccelerate, Kate has not only been one of the early investors in blockchain technologies since 2013, but also a passionate blockchain advocate for social impact and enterprise applications across global governments and Fortune 500 companies. During her tenure with world’s largest technology research firm, Gartner, Kate as supported top CIOs of global enterprises across full spectrum of technology strategy & implementation. In the past three years, as a part of Gartner Invest group, Kate has advised numerous venture-based companies and accelerators, such as Alchemist Accelerator. She also worked alongside some of the top investors in Silicon Valley, thereby creating a strong network of top entrepreneurs, VCs, and technology buyers. During her free time, Kate also runs Seattle-based blockchain meet-up and completes her master’s thesis on Blockchain from Harvard University.
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About Bloccelerate: Bloccelerate is a global accelerator and a fund focused on investing in blockchain companies all over the world.
Eric Spire
CEO – General Partner of Volos Group
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About Volos Group: Volos Group LLC funds startups and participates in the ICO’s of top-tier blockchain technology companies.
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