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What does Pantera Capital invest in?
Pantera Capital invests most often at Seed and Series A (59% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Defi, Token and Blockchain.
Pantera Capital highlights
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22 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Series A: 59% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 4 rounds, median $10M
What they do
First U.S. institutional asset manager focused exclusively on blockchain technology. Since 2013, Pantera has invested in digital assets and blockchain companies, providing investors with the full spectrum of exposure to the space.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $5.0M – $100M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedGrowthPre-IPO
- Sectors
- DefiTokenBlockchain
- Based in
- Menlo Park, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first196 appearances
- 2026
17 rounds
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- 2025
38 rounds
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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 registration12 named
DWDaniel Wayne MoreheadManager of a limited liability company that directly owns the General PartneriFiling they signed
GKGlenn KennedyExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
KWKatrina W. PagliaChief Compliance Officer & Chief Legal OfficeriFiling they signed
KPKatrina Paglia SetrinChief Compliance OfficeriForm ADV
LWLars W. AhlstromChief Executive OfficeriFiling they signed
LVLisa VolekaertDirectoriFiling they signed
MAMarc Adam SelfonChief Financial OfficeriFiling they signed
MWMatthew W. GorhamChief Operating OfficeriFiling they signed
RWRyan W. DavisChief Financial OfficeriFiling they signed
SWScott W. LennonDirectoriFiling they signed
SWSteve W. WaterhouseChief Technology Officer & Partner of the Management CompanyiFiling they signed
TWTodd William SlatteryChief Operating OfficeriForm ADV
We also hold 55 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
$4.0Bassets it managesOct 2026
5+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Pantera Capital Partners LP
- SEC number
- CRD 284342
Funds on its Form ADV
15 private funds, $4.6B in gross assets · filed Nov 2024
Hedge 11Venture 4
- Pantera Venture Fund III L.P.Venture304 investors$1.4B
- Pantera Blockchain Fund L.P.Hedge647 investors$1.2B
- Pantera Bitcoin Fund LTD.Hedge232 investors$412M
- Pantera Blockchain Venture Fund L.P.Hedge2 investors$346M
- Pantera Venture Fund II L.P.Venture53 investors$224M
- Pantera Liquid Token Fund L.P.Hedge782 investors$220M
- Pantera Early-Stage Token Fund L.P.Hedge470 investors$179M
- Pantera Venture Fund III A L.P.Venture78 investors$115M
- Pantera Solana Fund L.P.Hedge27 investors$110M
- Pantera Early Stage Token Master Fund L.P.Hedge191 investors$97M
And 5 more on the filing.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 3 we have independently watched raise
Hedge FundsSummitVenture Funds
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.