Description
CitizenX Crypto Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on identifying, evaluating, and investing in teams building decentralized technologies. The fund conducts market research to spot emerging trends across blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, and related sectors, favoring 'category creator' projects with world-class founders over more competitive 'category subscription' plays. After investing, the team acts as a hands-on partner to portfolio founders, dedicating the majority of its time to supporting token economics, protocol design, and product-market fit, with deal flow largely sourced through referrals from previously backed founders. The fund actively manages liquidity across its token holdings in response to shifting crypto market narratives. Its portfolio spans seed and early-stage investments in projects such as Aethir, Berachain, Beam, Movement Labs, Mitosis, Kodiak, Infrared, and others, indicating a client/investment focus on early-stage crypto infrastructure, gaming, and DeFi protocol teams. Leadership includes veterans from DeFi/NFT pioneering, Silicon Valley tech investing (CitizenVC), Goldman Sachs, Disney Store Europe, Deloitte, and crypto accounting standard-setting.