CoinFund, a crypto-specific investment firm, announced a $300 million venture capital fund to back early-stage blockchain projects. This new purse comes a little over a year after the firm raised $83 million for its first venture capital vehicle.
The CoinFund Ventures I fund will apparently invest in companies showing commercial traction that also belong to a crypto sector with a large total addressable market. Specific areas of interest include layer 1 blockchains, web3 infrastructure, non-fungible tokens (NFT), gaming, and asset management.
Founded in 2015, CoinFund has previously focused on bitcoin and seed stage investments in decentralized finance (DeFi) projects. Portfolio companies include NBA Top Shot creator Dapper Labs, blockchain infrastructure platform Blockdaemon and data indexing protocol The Graph.
Check sizes for the new CoinFund Ventures I investments will range from $6 million to $10 million per company, meaning the fund will likely back 30 to 40 companies. The majority will go to companies CoinFund hasn’t backed before, but a small number of portfolio companies could receive follow-on investments.
