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Founded in 2017, FBG Capital is a blockchain-focused crypto investment fund. Having worked as a technical advisor at IBM and Oracle respectively, FBG founder Shuoji Zhou entered the blockchain space as an early investor in a range of blockchain companies and projects, and has launched and managed two cryptocurrency private exchange funds.

A16z was the earliest investor to enter the crypto world, investing in Uniswap, MakerDAO, Compound, Dapper Labs, Arweave, Optimism, Solana, etc., which have almost all become head blockchain projects.

Danhua Capital was founded in 2013 and currently does not have much presence in popular areas such as DeFi and NFT. Its representative investments in the crypto field are as follows: Fantom: a high-performance public chain based on DAG technology and supporting smart contracts; Ankr: a Web 3.0 blockchain cloud infrastructure platform; Chia: a new blockchain network based on space/time proof mechanism and hard disk mining; MobileCoin: an anonymous cryptocurrency designed for mobile; Compound: an ethereum decentralized lending leader running on a shared pool model; Zilliqa: an ethereum decentralized lending leader running on a shared pool model; Zilliqa: an ethereum decentralized lending leader running on a shared pool model. Ethernet decentralized lending faucet that operates on a shared pool model; Zilliqa: high-throughput public chain based on sharding technology; Celer Network: project focused on Layer2 and blockchain scaling; Cobo: crypto asset management wallet created by Godfish; Mai Wallet: multi-platform cross-chain wallet.

AU21 Capital was established in 2017, co-founded by Hongcai Guo (Bao Erji) and Kenzi Wang, which is based in Silicon Valley and invests mainly in early stage blockchain projects. AU21 has extensive presence in areas such as DeFi and NFT, among which there are many well-known projects. Its representative investments are as follows: The Graph: a data indexing and querying layer for Web 3.0; Covalent: providing blockchain data querying and indexing services; Nftfy: an NFT fragmentation project; Reef: a cross-chain DeFi aggregator built on polka; Crust Network: a decentralized cloud storage/cloud service system built on polka. Terra Virtua: NFT integrated application platform; Blackhole Protocol: Blackhole Protocol, an ethereum-based cross-chain burning platform without license; Bagels Finance: cross-chain leveraged aggregation revenue platform; Apron Network: decentralized base setup service network; Frontier: off-chain DeFi aggregation layer.

Paradigm was founded in June 2018 by Fred Ehrsam, who was one of the co-founders of Coinbase. Co-founded by Matt Huang, a graduate of MIT, and Fred Ehrsam, a graduate of Duke University. Fred Ehrsam led the completion of the additional Series A funding for Headline. In addition, he also pulled a lot of resources for Zhang Yiming, which helped a lot in the most difficult B-round financing for Headline Today. Later on, he was tapped by Sequoia Capital and led several successful investments in blockchain startups.

Founded in 2018, Takedown Capital focuses on investments in the blockchain sector, with layouts in the whole industry chain, including public protocols and infrastructure, financial services, DeFi/DApp, NFT, etc. The current investment focus is on polka ecology, and has established Polka Ecology Extremeizer, which is dedicated to providing capital support, development consulting, community building and marketing services for early stage polka projects.