ParaFi Capital
Crossover fundNew York · 23 people tracked
Investment thesis
ParaFi invests at the frontier of finance, spanning both public and private markets in financial technology and capital markets innovation. Founded in 2018, it is among the earliest and most active investors in the digital asset ecosystem, covering areas such as stablecoins, tokenization, prediction markets, blockchain finance, and frontier market infrastructure. The firm applies a first-principles approach that combines rigorous underwriting with a flexible mandate to invest across the risk/return spectrum, targeting idiosyncratic opportunities at the edges of modern capital markets.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 23 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 44 of 100 portfolio companiesCrypto & Web3 ×34Fintech ×24Data & Infrastructure ×11Developer Tools ×6Enterprise Software ×5Cybersecurity ×4Cloud Computing ×3Consumer ×3
HQs:United States×15
Investments · 100 tracked
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Securitize provides tokenization solutions for real-world assets, serving asset managers, Web3 firms, DAOs, advisors, and investors.
Crypto & Web3FintechSan Francisco, US
Carlos Domingo(Founder & CEO)in
Anchorage Digital is a global cryptocurrency platform providing institutions with custody, staking, trading, governance, and settlement services, along with security infrastructure.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintechNew York, US
Diogo Mónica(Co-founder)Nathan McCauley(Co-founder)
Animoca Brands invests in blockchain and digital asset projects across gaming, infrastructure, culture, and real-world asset categories, with a portfolio of 600+ companies and a focus on Web3 ecosystem development.
B2B MarketplacesCrypto & Web3GamingSector Agnostic
Yat Siu(Founder & CEO)
Aptos Labs develops a Layer 1 blockchain platform using the Move programming language and parallel execution technology, serving developers and users building decentralized applications.
Crypto & Web3Developer ToolsNew York City, US
Avery Ching(CEO and Co-Founder)inAlin Tomescu(Head of Cryptography)Sasha Spiegelman(Head of Research)Zekun Li(Head of Blockchain)
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
Bitwise Investments provides professionally managed cryptocurrency funds and investment products for institutional and individual investors.
Crypto & Web3FintechSan Francisco, US
Katherine Dowling(Executive Officer)Matt Hougan(Executive Officer)Teddy Fusaro(Executive Officer)Corey Mulloy(Director)Hong Kim(Executive Officer, Director)Hunter Horsley(Founder & CEO)
Blockworks operates a platform and research service for onchain capital markets, giving businesses a way to build trust and providing investors with data and information to underwrite crypto assets.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintechMedia & EntertainmentNew York, US
bloXroute provides a blockchain distribution network offering real-time data streams, transaction propagation, and validator solutions to enable faster trading and MEV optimization across multiple blockchains.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureEvanston, US
Uri Klarman(Executive Officer, Director)Aleksandar Kuzmanovic(Executive Officer, Director)Jeffrey Bussgang(Director)
Core is a Bitcoin-native blockchain that enables users to earn yield by staking Bitcoin directly on the Bitcoin blockchain while maintaining custody, with an EVM-compatible network supporting a range of decentralized applications.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Decentralized autonomous organization governing the Core blockchain, a Layer-1 network combining Bitcoin Proof-of-Work security with delegated Proof-of-Stake.
Courtyard.io operates a marketplace where buyers purchase digital packs containing physical collectibles such as trading cards, comics, and watches, with options to store items in secure vaults or resell them at guaranteed prices.
ConsumerE-commerceMarketplacesNew York City, US
Nicolas le Jeune(Founder)inPaulin Andurand(Founder)in
Eclipse builds an Ethereum Layer 2 network that uses the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) as its execution environment, combining Solana's high-throughput execution with Ethereum's liquidity and security.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Neel Somani(Founder)Vijay Chetty(CEO)Ben Livshits(CTO)
New York, US
Max Galka(Executive Officer, Director)Anthony Pompliano(Director)Nuria Gutierrez Prunera(Executive Officer, Director)Vladimir Jelisavcic(Director)
Fireblocks provides infrastructure and platform services for managing digital assets and transactions, serving enterprises and startups that build and operate blockchain-based financial solutions.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Michael Shaulov(Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder)Pavel Berengoltz(Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder)Idan Ofrat(Chief Product Officer, Co-Founder)
Flashbots is a research and development organization that mitigates negative externalities from Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) on blockchains, primarily Ethereum, through infrastructure and tools for block building, transaction protection, and MEV distribution.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Glim Network is a cryptocurrency platform combining multiple crypto services in one place, including an in-built DEX, token swapping, staking on Solana and EVM chains, and an NFT marketplace.
Crypto & Web3
Immutable provides an AI growth platform for video game publishers to convert anonymous traffic into identified players, predict player value, and automate engagement campaigns across email and multiple channels to drive revenue from launch through lifetime value.
AI & Machine LearningGamingMarketing Tech
James Ferguson(Founder)
Ironblocks provides blockchain security technology that separates security logic from business logic and proactively blocks threats during transaction execution.
Crypto & Web3Cybersecurity
Kamino is a DeFi protocol on Solana that combines lending, liquidity provision, and leveraged trading in a single platform.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Life AI Biohub provides an infrastructure layer for human health that combines AI, biotech, and human participation, offering access to real-world health trajectory data from over 550,000 people.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechLongevity
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioSecuritizeNYSE: SECZ
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesNotabene · alleywatch.com · Aug 1, 2026
Rainbow · outinperth.com · Jul 17, 2026
Redefine · theaiinsider.tech · Jul 17, 2026
Fireblocks · finance.biggo.com · Jul 17, 2026
Anchorage · cryptobriefing.com · Jul 14, 2026
Aptos · cryptobriefing.com · Jul 14, 2026
Avalanche · cryptonews.net · Jul 13, 2026
Bitwise · bitcoinworld.co.in · Jul 13, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- What sectors does ParaFi Capital focus on?
- ParaFi Capital focuses on Crypto & Web3, Fintech.
- Where is ParaFi Capital located?
- ParaFi Capital is headquartered in New York, US.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamEmpire Cross-Post: The Crypto Treasury Playbook With Ben Forman & Josh Solesbury From ParaFi Capital
Bell Curve · Ben Forman
Ben Forman – ParaFi Capital: Building a $1B Crypto Investment Firm – ep 7
Angels to Allocators · Ben Forman
From TradFi to DeFi: Ben Forman on Market Crashes, Trillion $ Tokenization Revolution|ParaFi Capital
White Crypto · Ben Forman
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Co-investors · 43
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Nascent is a crypto-focused investment firm that builds, invests in, and competes across open markets and permissionless technologies, deploying both venture and liquid strategies as active participants in the crypto ecosystem.
Hack VC is a thesis-driven venture capital firm that partners with founders at the earliest stages building next-generation Internet technologies across crypto, AI, and other frontier areas.
Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in companies building transformative technologies across defense, space, data analytics, and other frontier sectors.
Paradigm is a frontier technology investment firm that builds and invests in early-stage companies across crypto, AI, robotics, and other emerging technology areas.
Variant is a venture capital firm investing in technology that expands user autonomy through greater access, knowledge, and ownership, focusing on new markets, infrastructure, and applications.
1confirmation is a venture firm focused on backing entrepreneurs building open, decentralized networks and crypto-native products.
Dragonfly is a crypto-focused investment fund that backs researchers and builders working to advance the crypto ecosystem.
Solana Ventures is an investment firm that backs teams building on the Solana blockchain to accelerate innovation and drive onchain adoption.
Archetype is an early-stage crypto venture firm backing founders building crypto-native companies and protocols, providing support across investing, engineering, protocol and mechanism design, policy, and community-building.
Placeholder is a venture capital firm that has invested in over 75 early-stage crypto companies and decentralized networks since 2017.
▶31 more co-investors
A.Capital VenturesGeneral CatalystCoinFundRace CapitalDBADCVC (Data Collective)True VenturesM13Pareto HoldingsVine VenturesPolygonFifth Wall VenturesCrunchFundIVCLCXThe Alchemy FundSID Venture PartnersAlchemy VenturesEthereal Ventures Management Ltd.QuantstampGnosis DAOMechanism CapitalBlockchange VenturesFramework VenturesPortal VenturesFMFWNext Frontier CapitalHartmann CapitalKR1DWeb3 CapitalHuobi Capital
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