Investor Profiles: Coinbase Ventures | Revelo Intel

Investor Profiles: Coinbase Ventures

Published: December 11, 2023

Introduction

Coinbase is building the crypto economy – a more fair, accessible, efficient, and transparent financial system enabled by crypto. The company started in 2012 with the radical idea that anyone, anywhere, should be able to easily and securely send and receive Bitcoin. Today, Coinbase offers a trusted and easy-to-use platform for accessing the broader crypto economy.

Company Highlights

Coinbase Ventures invests in exceptional founders who share Coinbase’s mission of creating more economic freedom for the world. They strive to be strategic partners for founders and take a collaborative approach to investing. They support founders through operational experience, distribution, strategic partnerships, and more.

What Coinbase Traditionally Invests in

  • They back exceptional entrepreneurs working to advance the crypto/Web3 ecosystem and support Coinbase’s mission of creating more economic freedom for the world.
  • They partner with founding teams at the earliest stages and invest broadly across all categories within the crypto economy.
  • They have invested in hundreds of teams building everything from layer 1 protocols, Web3 infrastructure, centralized on-ramps, decentralized finance, NFTs, metaverse technologies, developer tooling, and more.

AUM

According to Coinbase’s Shareholder Letter released on November 2, 2023, they ended Q3 2023 with $5.5 billion in total available $USD resources which they define as cash and cash equivalents, USDC, and custodial account overfunding. This represents an increase of $20 million Q/Q.

In addition to their $USD resources, they also consider their crypto assets held as investments as other unencumbered and liquid resources available to them. The fair market value of their crypto assets held as investments was $572 million as of 9/30 and had an impaired cost basis of $311million.

Portfolio

Coinbase Ventures’ total number of investments is 340 and the accumulated amount they have invested is $6.5B with some projects having an undeclared amount of investments. The tables below show all the projects they have invested in and acquired:

CeFi

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Amber Group CoinSwitch InvestaX Pintu Tetra Trust
Architect Custodia Bank Ippopay Protego Trust Tokensoft
Bitnomial Daffy Jambo Qredo Tribal
Bitso Eco Lemon Rain Umoja Labs
Bitwise FalconX Mara Reku Valkyrie
Block Earner Flint Meow Ridian Valr
CLST ForUsAll Merge Seashell Wave
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DeFi

0x DerivaDEX Mirror RealtyBits Umee
Acala DFlow MoHash Reserve Uniswap
Affine DODO Exchange Moonwell Ribbon Finance Variational Research
Alkimiya Dolomite Morpho Risk Harbor Vauld
Alliance DAO Endaoment Mountain Protocol Rocket Pool Vega
Alongside Euler Naos Router Protocol Vertalo
Arcadia Finance Fei Nayms Rysk Voltz
Aurigami Folks Finance Neptune Mutual Saffron Finance DeBank
Block.Green Francium Notional Satori Maverick
Bounce Gauntlet Network Omni Securitize Raydium
Cega Goldfinch Opyn SEDA Tokemak
Centrifuge Harpie Orca Sei Data Mynt
Charm Finance Hashflow Panoptic Set Labs Linen
ClayStack HXRO Network Parallel Finance Slingshot Portal
CoFiX Immuna Paxos Solend Term Labs
Compound Instadapp Percent StableHouse
Contango Ledn Perennial Finance Synquote
Cozy Lemma Persistence Synthetix

Platform & Developer Tools

Alchemy Consensys Kurtosis Questbook Unstoppable Domains
Amberdata Covalent Macro Radicle Utopia Labs
AwesomeQA Demox Labs Messari Rally WalletConnect
Blocknative Dfns Metrika Samudai Web3Auth
Bonfire Dune Analytics Momentum Safe Sardine Coin Metrics
Certik Etherscan Moralis Shinami Integral
Certora Eventus Mysten Labs Simplehash Pine Street Labs
ChainPatrol Fleek Nansen Spruce Turnkey
Chaos Labs Flipside Crypto Nomics Stader
CloudBurst Hyperspace OneSafe Syndicate
Coherent Incode OpenZeppelin/Forta Tenderly

Protocols & Web3 Infrastructure

(O)1 Labs Brydge Farcaster Mina Snapshot
Aleo Casa Flowdesk MobileCoin Socket
Alluvial Cashmere Finance Foxchain Moonbeam Spacemesh
Alta Labs Celestia Galxe Multis Spindl
Anoma Celo Gnosis Safe NEAR SSV Network
Aptos Ceramic Network Graph Protocol Obol Starkware
Arbitrum Chainflip Hop Protocol Optimism Subspace Network
Arweave Commonwealth HypeLab Otterspace Sunscreen
Astar Network Composable Finance ImmutableX ParaSpace SupraOracles
Audius Connext Keep Network Pinata Taki
Axelar Crusoe Energy KYVE PIP Textile
Aztec DeSo LayerZero Polygon Thirdweb
Backdrop Labs Disco Li.Fi Polymer Labs Titan
Biconomy EigenLayer Liquality Rain Card Uma
bloXroute Entropy Livepeer RedStone Finance Unlock Protocol
Braintrust Espresso Massive RSS3 Violet
Brave EVMOS Milkomeda Sealance Worldcoin
XMTP Zapper zCloak Zebec Zerion
zkSync

Web3 Consumer

Ancient8 Collective Highlight Nifty’s Venly
Anima Curio Horizon Blockchain Games NiftyApes Yo
Animoca Brands Cymbal Jadu OpenSea Yoz
Arkive Dapper Labs Joyride Games Pawnfi Yuga Labs
Avalon Everyrealm Limit Break Rarible Zora
Azra Games Fancraze Magic Eden Royal Clockwork Labs
bitsCrunch FirstMate MakersPlace ScienceMagic.Inc GuildFi
Bitski Fractal Massina SkateX Nfty Chat
Bling Financial Friends With Benefits Mintbase Sound.xyz Third Time Games
Branch Gallery Labs MIRA Sturdy Exchange
Bridgesplit Genies Neynar Summoners Arena

Acquired

Dharma Katana Interchange Blockrize Altered State Machine
One River Digital
Asset Management
Staked Nova Diem Eternal
Onramp Invest Bison Trails Nxyz Elph Mint Songs
Tuned Curv Tactic Namebase WENEW

Base Ecosystem Fund

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Best Investments

  • Polygon $MATIC is their best investment of all time with an ROI of 341.32x.
  • Arweave $AR is their 2nd best investment of all time with an ROI of 55.99x.
  • Rocket Pool $RPL is their 3rd best investment of all time with an ROI of 30.05x.

Other Stats

Main Investment Categories

Total Investments

  • They have a total of 1,605 co-investors and 329 co-investments.

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