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What does Blockchain Capital invest in?
Blockchain Capital invests most often at Venture and Seed (67% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Crypto, Defi and Cefi.
Blockchain Capital highlights
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11 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Venture and Seed: 67% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 9 rounds, median $5.3M
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1 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Partners to crypto builders since 2013.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- CryptoDefiCefi
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first129 appearances
- 2026
10 rounds
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- Feb
- 2025
14 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Oct
- Aug
- Jun
- Jun
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Jan
- Jan
- 2024
20 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Oct
- Oct
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration10 named
ALAleks LarsenMANAGING DIRECTORiFiling they signed
APAnthony Peter SchmidtChief Operating Officer and Operating PartneriForm ADV
HJHerbert J RiveraGeneral CounseliForm ADV
KSKinjal ShahMANAGING DIRECTORiFiling they signed
PBP. Bartlett StephensManaging Member of Blockchain Capital, LLC - the General Partner of the GPiFiling they signed
PBPaul Bartlett StephensMemberiForm ADV
SBSpencer Bradford BogartMANAGING DIRECTORiFiling they signed
WBW. Bradford StephensManaging Member of Blockchain Capital, LLC - the General Partner of the GPiFiling they signed
WBWilliam Bradford StephensMemberiForm ADV
ZAZalia AlirizaChief Compliance Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Operating PartneriForm ADV
We also hold 38 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$2.9Bassets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Blockchain Capital, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 283610
Funds on its Form ADV
10 private funds, $2.4B in gross assets · filed Oct 2024
- BCAP Oppfund, L.P.Venture182 investors$723M
- Blockchain Capital IV, L.P.Venture99 investors$494M
- BCAP VI QP, L.P.Venture232 investors$419M
- Blockchain Capital V QP, L.P.Venture256 investors$326M
- Crypto Currency Partners II, L.P.Venture59 investors$140M
- Blockchain Capital III Digital Liquid Venture Fund, L.P.Venture1 investor$119M
- Blockchain Capital Parallel IV, L.P.Venture2 investors$107M
- Blockchain Capital V, L.P.Venture27 investors$13M
- Crypto Currency Partners, L.P.Venture21 investors$9.0M
- BCAP VI, L.P.Venture21 investors$5.4M
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
33 of 60 we have independently watched raise
1inch Exchange DeFiAFTR Market Decentralized infraAbra CeFiAlphapointAnchorage Digital CeFiBitGo CeFiBitwave Centralized infraBlocknative Centralized infraBlockstream Centralized infraCamp Decentralized infraCatapult ConsumerCelestia Decentralized infraChainflip Decentralized infraCoinList CeFi SeedCommunity Labs Decentralized infraCustodia Bank Centralized infraHigh Fidelity ConsumerItBit CeFiKraken CeFiOasis Labs Decentralized infraOneBalance Centralized infraOpenSea ConsumerParallel Finance DeFiPhi Labs Decentralized infraPolymarket Consumer GrowthPolymer Decentralized infraQED Decentralized infraRISC Zero Decentralized infraRadar DeFiSecuritize CeFiSpatial Labs ConsumerTRM Centralized infraYellow Card CeFi=nil; Foundation Decentralized infraAave DeFiAcadarena GamingAcross DeFiArDrive Decentralized infraArweave Decentralized infraBCAP IRBSX DeFiBadgerDAO DeFiBalancer DeFiBisonTrails Centralized infraBitPesa Centralized infraBitwise CeFiBoto Centralized infraBounce Finance DeFiButton DeFiChain Centralized infraChangeTip ConsumerCircle CeFiComposable Finance DeFiCowSwap DeFiCurrents.fm ConsumerEigenLayer Decentralized infraEspresso Decentralized infraFabric Cryptography Decentralized infraForta Decentralized infraFund Reviewsand 44 more
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed1 in all
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.