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Pitch deck · Y Combinator Summer 2012

Coinbase's pitch deck

The deck, and the 7 rounds we watched Coinbase raise afterwards, with the investors each report named.

Buy, sell, and manage cryptocurrencies.

12 slides1.5MBUSBlockchainBitcoin

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What is in it

The deck, slide by slide

Each slide by what it argues. 12 slides against a median of 13 across the 1,712 decks we hold.

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  1. 1Cover
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12Team

CoverTeam

  1. Aug 2025

    Debt$2.6B

    Andreessen HorowitzDraper AssociatesIVPParadigmWellington Management

    Source recorded

  2. Oct 2018

    Series E$300M

    Andreessen HorowitzPolychainTiger Global Management/ Y Combinator ContinuityWellington Management

    Reported by FinSMEs

  3. Jan 2015

    Series C$75M

    Andreessen HorowitzBBVA VenturesBlockchain CapitalDraper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)Ribbit CapitalUSAAUnion Square VenturesValor Capital GroupVayner/RSE

    Source recorded

  4. Dec 2013

    Series B$25M

    Andreessen HorowitzAnthony SalehNasir "Nas" JonesQueensBridge Venture PartnersRibbit CapitalUnion Square Ventures

    Reported by blog.coinbase.com

  5. May 2013

    Series A$6.1M

    Bobby GoodlatteFundersClubInterplay VenturesRed SwanRibbit CapitalSV AngelUnion Square Ventures

    Reported by sec.gov

  6. Oct 2012

    Venture$166K

    No investor was named in the report.

    Source recorded

  7. Sept 2012

    Seed$600K

    Alexis OhanianFundersClubGarry TanGreg KiddY Combinator

    Reported by privateinternetaccess.com

Everyone who backed Coinbase

Form D

What they told the regulator

Coinbase filed a Form D with the SEC

The company reporting its own raise, rather than a journalist reporting it.

$6.1Msold under the offeringMay 2013most recent filing
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The deck itself

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Investors who claim them

Firms listing Coinbase on their own portfolio page: the firm's own account rather than a round we watched. Weaker than an announcement, much stronger than a list somebody sold us.

Spark CapitalVC firmDraper AssociatesVC firmCollaborative FundVC firmDigital Currency GroupVC firmA16z CryptoVC firmValor Capital GroupVC firmBlockchain CapitalVC firmAcrew CapitalVC firmWinklevoss CapitalFamily officeS32VC firmGarry TanAngelGeodesic CapitalVC firmRefactor CapitalVC firmTusk VenturesVC firmRed Swan VenturesVC firmSection 32VC firmInterplayFamily officeA.Capital VenturesVC firmScooter BraunAngelPropel Venture PartnersVC firmDenis GroszAngel1confirmationVC firmDraper DragonVC firmAndromeda CapitalVC firmAnsa CapitalVC firmBlake ByersAngelNelstone VenturesVC firmWonder VenturesVC firmAdventure FundVC firmJessica VerrilliVC firm

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