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With Alameda Going Down, We Take A Look at Who Are The Other VCs That Co-invested With Alameda

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With Alameda going down, we take a look at who are the other VCs that co-invested with Alameda.

With the bankruptcy of FTX, the future of Alameda looks dark and gloomy, and eventually, it might end just like FTX. With Alameda, many other cryptos VCs may go down because they have co-invested with it. Let’s look at some of them one by one.

1 Coinbase Ventures

2 Jump Ventures

3 Multicoin Capital

4 Sparta Ventures

5 Polychain

6 Pantera Capitals

7 Final thoughts

Coinbase Ventures

Coinbase is one of the most advanced crypto platforms whose founders aim to create and promote more economic freedom for the world. The founders back all those who want to do the same. It has invested broadly in many crypto platforms one of which is Alameda. It has a broader portfolio which is consist of Alchemy, Magic Eden, Arbitrum, Uniswap, Graph protocol, Arweave, Dune Analytics, Starkware, OpenSea, Zora, CoinTracker, and Etherscan.

Jump Ventures

It was founded by Dimitri Van Hees and Jasper Van Elferen and it aims to collaborate and strategically invest in different businesses. It has collaborated with dozens of other businesses among which the top are, are trader, APER10, ANOVA DATA, AUTOPAY, BALTO, booker, BUZZER, BenchPrep, and many more.

Multicoin Capital

According to the official website of Multicoin Capital, they are “thesis-driven investors that make long-term, high-conviction investments in category-defining crypto companies and protocols across public and private markets.” It has invested in different businesses ranging from infrastructure, enterprise, mobile, privacy, and identity. Its portfolio is comprised of many companies including CabinDAO, Catalog, Coin98, Braintrust, Coral, CybeConnect, Delphia, Drift Protocol, Dune Analytics, Eden Networks, and dozen more.

Sparta Ventures

Sparta Ventures is another company that has co-invested with Alameda. It has invested in different businesses which aim to invest with the best entrepreneurs in the Web3 market. It has more than $500 million in assets under its management. Additionally, it is a $1 billion deal-making transaction value and more than $100 million are invested in Spartan Labs. The Spartan lab has expertise in dealing with crypto, Defi, NFTs, and other specific sub-sectors.

Polychain

Polychain is one of the biggest and largest firms in the crypto market to invest in which aims to give exceptional returns to those that have invested in it. More than 88 companies have trusted and invested in it. These companies include Acala, Agoric, Aleo, Alpha5, Anoma Network, Ava Labs, Axelar Network, Bit Tensor, Blink, Capsule Social, and many more such companies.

Pantera Capitals

Pantera Capitals was launched in 2013 and since then it has invested in hundreds of digital assets and blockchain companies. The Pantera Capitals aims to provide investors with the full spectrum of exposure to the space. It has a larger portfolio which includes Ox, 1inch, ABRA, alchemy, AMBER, Ampleforth, Anchor, ANCIENT8, Ankr, antic, API3, and many more such digital and blockchain companies.(By Haseeb Shaheen

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