Amman Bhasin

Partner at PayPal Ventures

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2025
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Sep 2025
StableChain powered by USDT — Designed to move stablecoins at scale, because the world’s most used asset deserves its own chain.
Investor
Jan 2024
Founded in 2020, Mesh is the first global payment network for crypto, connecting hundreds of exchanges, wallets, and payment service providers to enable seamless digital asset payments and conversions. By unifying these platforms into a single network, Mesh is pioneering an open, connected, and secure ecosystem for digital finance.
Investor
Nov 2022
The future of institutional web3 wallets. For builders, traders, and operators, Fordefi’s comprehensive MPC wallet platform and web3 gateway enables you to securely self-custody your private keys, seamlessly connect to thousands of dApps across any blockchain, protect your workflows with granular policies, and manage your digital asset operations all-in-one place.
Investor
May 2022
Aptos Labs is a premier Web3 studio of engineers, researchers, strategists, designers, and dreamers building on Aptos, the Layer 1 blockchain built with safety and user experience in mind, enabling developers to build scalable, future-proof applications. We are committed to developing products and applications on the Aptos blockchain that redefine the Web3 user experience. Our team of accomplished technical experts is dedicated to creating better network tooling and seamless usability to bring the benefits of decentralization to the masses. Learn more at http://www.aptoslabs.com.
Investor
Mar 2022
LayerZero — the interoperability protocol for Better Money Technology.
Investor (Series D)
Dec 2021
Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry’s leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, which is licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore; Anchorage Digital New York, which holds a BitLicense from the New York Department of Financial Services; and self-custody wallet Porto by Anchorage Digital. The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. For disclosures, please visit: https://www.anchorage.com/legal
Investor (Series A) & Board Observer
May 2021
Empowering institutions to trade and manage digital assets Talos provides institutional-grade technology and data that supports the full digital asset investment lifecycle, including liquidity sourcing, price discovery, trading, settlement and portfolio management. Engineered by a team with unmatched experience building institutional trading, data and portfolio systems, the Talos platform connects institutions to key providers in the digital asset ecosystem – exchanges, OTC desks, prime brokers, lenders, custodians, and more – through a single interface. For additional information, visit www.talos.com.
Investor (Series A, B) & Board Observer
Jan 2021
TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company that helps financial institutions, crypto businesses, and government agencies detect and investigate crypto-related financial crime and fraud. Every day, we tackle challenges in data engineering, data science, and threat intelligence to advance our mission to build a safer financial system for billions of people.  Attention Job Applicants: Recently, it has come to our attention that certain individuals are masquerading as members of TRMs recruitment and human resources team online. We will never request your personal information outside of the standard recruitment process. Every job offer at TRM is extended only after a formal interview process and we will not require candidates to fulfill any financial obligations as part of the hiring process. If you believe you have been targeted with a fraudulent job offer or encountered any suspicious activity, please send us an email with “Recruitment Fraud” in the subject line to recruiting-fraud@trmlabs.com.
Investor (Seed+, A, B) & Board Observer
Dec 2020
Taxbit is the premier AI-enabled information reporting and analytics platform built by tax experts to simplify regulatory compliance for the digital economy. Trusted by leading crypto brokers, Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, and governments, Taxbit automates complex reporting and seamlessly enables scalable and audit-ready compliance worldwide.
Investor (C, D)
Dec 2020
Paxos is the leading regulated blockchain infrastructure and tokenization platform. Its products are the foundation for a new, open financial system that can operate faster and more efficiently. Today, trillions of dollars are locked in inefficient, outdated financial plumbing that is inaccessible to millions of people. Paxos is replatforming the financial system to enable assets to instantaneously move anywhere in the world, at any time, in a trustworthy way. Paxos partners with leading global enterprises to tokenize, custody and trade assets. Its blockchain solutions are used by leaders like PayPal, Interactive Brokers, Mastercard, Mercado Libre and Nubank. Paxos is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity and is the issuer of numerous digital assets including PayPal USD (PYUSD), Pax Dollar (USDP) and Pax Gold (PAXG). Global Dollar (USDG) is issued by Paxos Digital Singapore, which is a Major Payments Institution supervised by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. USDG is also issued by Paxos Issuance Europe under the supervision of FIN-FSA and in compliance with MiCA. USDG is also available on Solana. Prudentially regulated by FIN-FSA in Europe, the OCC in the US, the MAS in Singapore and FSRA in Abu Dhabi Global Market, Paxos is a leading fintech company with more than $500 million raised from leading investors including Oak HC/FT, Declaration Partners, Founders Fund and PayPal Ventures.
Investor
2016
Propel is investing in founders creating “the new economy.” The financial services sector is the primary driver of many economies, and opportunities to enable, accelerate, deliver, and secure value exchange are immense and diverse. Propel invests primarily from Pre-Seed to Series A in the Americas with initial check sizes from $250k to $5M with follow-on capital much higher. Portfolio companies include Coinbase, Nomad, Neon, Guideline, Groww, SumUp, Newfront, and Safebooks. Propel is headquartered in the SF Bay Area with a workspace in Jackson Square.
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2025
Investor
Sep 2025
StableChain powered by USDT — Designed to move stablecoins at scale, because the world’s most used asset deserves its own chain.
2024
Investor
Jan 2024
Founded in 2020, Mesh is the first global payment network for crypto, connecting hundreds of exchanges, wallets, and payment service providers to enable seamless digital asset payments and conversions. By unifying these platforms into a single network, Mesh is pioneering an open, connected, and secure ecosystem for digital finance.
2022
Investor
Nov 2022
The future of institutional web3 wallets. For builders, traders, and operators, Fordefi’s comprehensive MPC wallet platform and web3 gateway enables you to securely self-custody your private keys, seamlessly connect to thousands of dApps across any blockchain, protect your workflows with granular policies, and manage your digital asset operations all-in-one place.
Investor
May 2022
Aptos Labs is a premier Web3 studio of engineers, researchers, strategists, designers, and dreamers building on Aptos, the Layer 1 blockchain built with safety and user experience in mind, enabling developers to build scalable, future-proof applications. We are committed to developing products and applications on the Aptos blockchain that redefine the Web3 user experience. Our team of accomplished technical experts is dedicated to creating better network tooling and seamless usability to bring the benefits of decentralization to the masses. Learn more at http://www.aptoslabs.com.
Investor
Mar 2022
LayerZero — the interoperability protocol for Better Money Technology.
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