July 26, 2021, 4:48PM EDT
• 10 min read
Quick Take
- ParaFi Capital is an investment firm focused on blockchain technology and one of the earliest investors and participants in DeFi protocols
- Based in San Francisco, California, the fund was founded by Ben Forman, a previous executive at the private equity firms KKR and TPG
- In total, the firm has deployed capital to at least 51 startups and protocols across eleven verticals, which The Block has mapped out
- 7
- access
- Additional
- article
- asset
- Banking
- blockchain
- blockchain technology
- california
- capital
- CBDCs
- company
- Container
- DeFi
- digital
- Digital Asset
- ecosystem
- eleven
- equity
- Exclusive
- executive
- Firm
- Francisco
- fund
- HTTPS
- Including
- investment
- Investors
- Labels
- Maps
- Markets
- portfolio
- private
- Private Equity
- Profiles
- research
- San
- San Francisco
- Services
- Startups
- Technology
- Topics
More from The Block Crypto
DEX aggregator 1inch expands to Ethereum scaling solution Optimism
Source Node: 1032049
Time Stamp: Aug 17, 2021
Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang joins board of directors for Stripe
Source Node: 1104833
Time Stamp: Nov 5, 2021
Bitcoin mining firm HIVE orders 4,000 machines from Canaan
Source Node: 1006274
Time Stamp: Aug 3, 2021
Senator Elizabeth Warren attacks cryptocurrency over ransomware, energy use
Source Node: 911988
Time Stamp: Jun 9, 2021
Chinese bitcoin mining pools experience sharp hash rate drop
Source Node: 911319
Time Stamp: Jun 9, 2021
Finnish crypto lender Tesseract bags $25 million Series A
Source Node: 933624
Time Stamp: Jun 21, 2021
DeFi startup Balancer Labs rolls out latest version of its automated market-making protocol
Source Node: 859743
Time Stamp: May 13, 2021
NFT artist Pplpleasr announces decentralized video platform called Shibuya at ETHDenver
Source Node: 1612448
Time Stamp: Feb 18, 2022
Poolin halts payout for BTC, ETH hash rate tokens after China’s crackdown
Source Node: 942290
Time Stamp: Jun 25, 2021
Compute North plans to add 1.2 gigawatts of bitcoin mining colocation capacity
Source Node: 974334
Time Stamp: Jul 12, 2021
Visa says crypto purchases during this spring’s price peak boosted cross-border volumes during fiscal Q3
Source Node: 1003174
Time Stamp: Jul 29, 2021