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TBI - February 7, 2019
We’re working hard to populate a reliable database that captures the full picture of who owns what, who works where, and how the tangled web of crypto professionals has evolved over the past several years.
As we worked our way through some of our investor profiles, we thought we’d come up with a dynamic search that outlined the portfolio overlap between some of the OG crypto funds: Blockchain Capital, DCG, and Pantera. (Check out their profiles!)
There’s been quite a bit it turns out.

DCG and Pantera both drank the ZCash (and Basis) kool aid early. While Blockchain Capital and Pantera snapped up Kik’s and 0x’s tokens. DCG and Blockchain Capital took pre-ICO positions in Blockstack, Ripio, and Tierion.
Prior to founding Messari, Ryan was an entrepreneur-in-residence at ConsenSys, and on the founding teams of Digital Currency Group, where he managed the firm’s seed investing activity, and CoinDesk, where he led the company’s restructuring & annual Consensus conferences. He has been an investor & prolific writer in the crypto industry since 2013.