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DeFiance Capital was founded by Arthur Cheong (Arthur0x) and is widely considered to be one of the top crypto investment firms in Asia with more than $300m combined AUM. Arthur is a leader in the global crypto community (>200k X followers) and one of the earliest investors in the DeFi space. DeFiance currently invests out of its liquid hedge fund launched in March 2023, which focuses on liquid crypto/tokens with venture-scale upside. We take a thesis driven and fundamental approach to underwriting investments and target multi-month holding periods. The fund was featured by Preqin, the leading data provider in the alternative asset management industry, as the No.1 best performing APAC-based crypto hedge fund for Q4 2023 and Q1 2024. We have outperformed benchmarks, while providing investors peace of mind with institutional grade security/custody practices. DeFiance’s first hybrid liquid + venture fund (2020 vintage) achieved ~4x MOIC from 2020 to 2022, having made early venture investments into unicorns like dYdX (25x), Axie Infinity(250x), LayerZero (60x), and Arbitrum(52x), amongst other successful liquid investments such as Aave and Synthetix.

Codex FX is the stablecoin-native FX platform for moving money across borders. The platform enables businesses to convert, receive, and pay with fiat and stablecoins at institutional rates, 24/7/365, making global payments faster and more efficient. Founded in 2024, the company is backed by investors including Dragonfly, Coinbase Ventures, Circle Ventures, Wintermute, and Cumberland. Anything to anything.

First Round is a venture capital firm that works with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an “imagine if.” We fill in where we can until the team is filled out, tackling crucial early hiring and equipping those who are great at building product with the skills to sell it, too. By getting the foundational firsts right, we increase the odds of finding extreme product-market fit. Our founders’ “imagine ifs” have turned into companies like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square.

Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. We aim to be the first true believers in tomorrow’s most consequential companies. We partner with a few outliers each year and go all-in, providing them with the hands-on help required at every stage of the company building journey. Our expertise comes from nearly 50 years of working with legendary founders like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Larry Page, Jan Koum, Brian Chesky, Tony Xu, Lin Qiao, Eric Yuan, Christina Cacioppo, and Patrick Collison. In aggregate, Sequoia-backed companies account for more than 30% of NASDAQs total value. The vast majority of the money we invest has been on behalf of nonprofits and schools like the Ford Foundation, Mayo Clinic and MIT, which means most of the returns we generate benefit these great causes.