Inception Capital (ex OP Crypto)
Venture capitalRoad Town, Tortola · Pre-Seed–Seed · 5 people tracked
Also known as OP CRYPTO CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LTD.
Investment thesis
Inception Capital positions itself as a lean, globally connected investment team built to invest across markets, technologies, and cycles. It combines investment judgment, research depth, operational discipline, and emerging-market experience. The firm backs globally trained founders building category-defining companies, with particular emphasis on DeFi, onchain financial infrastructure, digital asset markets, AI, and deep tech. Its geographic coverage spans the United States, Latin America, China, and Southeast Asia.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 5 people
from the firm's website
Operations Director with over seven years of fund operations experience from Hillhouse, where she was a Vice President, plus five years of Big 4 audit experience. Studied at The University of Hong Kong and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Head of Treasury based in Shenzhen and Hong Kong. A former Global Partner at OKX and long-time trading partner of Huobi, he combines quantitative trading depth with early-stage venture investment experience.
Investor covering the United States and Latin America, focusing on DeFi and onchain financial infrastructure and contributing to the firm's research. Previously at Evergreen Capital.
What they invest in
from 6 of 34 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×3Creator Economy ×2Crypto & Web3 ×2Data & Infrastructure ×2Enterprise Software ×2Fintech ×2Cloud Computing ×1Consumer ×1
HQs:Germany×1United States×1
Investments · 34 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathDistributed cloud-compute infrastructure providing enterprise-grade GPUs for AI workloads and cloud gaming
The Avalanche Foundation is a non-profit organization that supports innovation and growth in the Avalanche ecosystem through grants, programs, and strategic support for developers, entrepreneurs, and communities building on the Avalanche blockchain platform.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintech
High-performance blockchain platform whose sovereign L1s let apps and institutions launch customizable, interoperable chains
Modular blockchain providing data availability and scalable blockspace for rollups and custom chains
Celestia designs and operates custom, high-throughput blockchain infrastructure for enterprises, separating compute and storage to enable independent scaling.
Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Enterprise Software
Mustafa Al-Bassam(Chairman & CEO, Celestia Foundation)Nick White(Co-founder & CEO, Celestia Labs)Preston Evans(CTO, Celestia Labs)
Consumer social prediction app for group bets on daily trending questions
Creator-engagement platform that helps brands amplify social content through targeted creator comments, shares, and reposts
Daisy Pay is a marketing platform that activates networks of micro and macro creators to amplify brand content through organic engagement via comments, shares, and reposts.
Creator EconomyMarketing TechSaaS
AI trading agent that monitors, analyzes, and executes across crypto, perps, prediction markets, and DeFi
Decentralized, privacy-preserving AI platform for training, validating, and deploying custom models while keeping data local
Real-time Ethereum Layer 2 built for sub-10 ms blocks and 100,000+ transactions per second
Consumer AI creation platform for building, sharing, and monetizing AI agents and creative applications
MyShell is an AI platform for creating images, portraits, filters, and short videos, including a product called MyShell Art with a graphical interface aimed at casual users and digital creators.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerCreator Economy
Crowdsourced camera-data network turning Tesla driving footage into training data for physical AI and autonomous driving
Decentralized privacy-computing network enabling storage and computation over high-value data without exposing it
Capital-markets infrastructure for issuing compliant tokenized securities with private credentialing for DeFi composability
Chain-abstraction infrastructure letting users transact across chains through a single universal account
Onchain FX liquidity for non-USD stablecoins driven by real USD borrowing demand
Agent trust stack providing verified agent identity, web access credentials, and wallets for autonomous checkout and payments
Decentralized automation protocol built on Sui for deploying verifiable autonomous AI-agent and multi-agent workflows
Hong Kong-based onchain trading platform combining prediction markets and perpetual futures for APAC traders
MegaETH-native, non-custodial exchange unifying spot, perpetuals, and lending in a single cross-margin account
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Inception Capital (ex OP Crypto) invest at?
- Inception Capital (ex OP Crypto) invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What sectors does Inception Capital (ex OP Crypto) focus on?
- Inception Capital (ex OP Crypto) focuses on Crypto & Web3.
- Where is Inception Capital (ex OP Crypto) located?
- Inception Capital (ex OP Crypto) is headquartered in Road Town, Tortola.
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