Greenfield Capital is one of the sector's historic players and one of Europe's largest crypto funds. Based in Germany and with offices in London, Lisbon and Paris, the fund continued to invest in 2023 despite the harsh bear market that has been affecting the ecosystem for almost two years now.
Essentially specialising in seed and series A investments with tickets ranging from €1 million to €5 million, Greenfield initially specialised in infrastructure with notable investments in Near Protocol (2020) or Celo (2021), as well as decentralised finance (DeFi) with DEX (Decentralised Exchange) aggregator 1Inch (2021) or Safe (2022), specialising in custody and account abstraction on Ethereum.
In 2023, the fund, which was co-founded by Jascha Samadi and Sebastian Blum, took part in a $3.5 million round of financing for Stroom, a Ukrainian start-up specialising in Bitcoin liquid staking. The fund also participated in the $7 million seed round of Panoptic, a decentralised exchange platform specialising in crypto derivatives based on the Uniswap DEX.
Among the other nominees in the category: Coinbase Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Binance Labs and Paradigm.
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