The Digital Currency Group is a venture capital firm that was founded in 2015 by Barry Silbert and is headquartered in New York City, New York. The firm specializes in investing in companies operating within the blockchain and cryptocurrency business sector.
Subsidiaries
Acquisitions
CoinDesk
On January 13, 2016 the Digital Currency Group announced that it acquired CoinDesk, a popular cryptocurrency news site, for approximately $500,000-600,000.
Timeline
Funded Companies
CoinListCoinlist is a financial services platform for digital assets that is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2017 by Andy Bromberg, Brian Tubergen, Graham Jenkin, Joshua Slayton, Kendrick Nguyen, and Paul Menchov.
Financial services
Cryptocurrency
Blockchain
Dapper LabsDapper labs is a blockchain and software development company developing blockchain based products and services.
Video game
Vancouver
NorblocNorbloc is a blockchain and software development company creating a Know-Your-Customer (KYC) blockchain platform.
Financial technology
Banking industry
OB1OB1 is a mobile applications for buying and selling products using Bitcoin on OpenBazaar.
Peer-to-peer
Bitcoin
AxoniAxoni is a blockchain and software development company offering the creation of blockchain infrastructure, distributed applications, and workflow automation tools.
JackpocketJackpocket is an a mobile application that allows users to play state lottery games on their phone.
Gaming
Gambling
New York City
Nomics (company)Nomics is a software company creating data products and APIs for institutional cryptocurrency investors.
Curv, Inc.
Cryptocurrency wallet
Editional
Horizon Blockchain Games
Cambridge BlockchainBlockchain company
Cambridge, CambridgeshirePeople
Barry Silbert
Founder & CEO
Casey Taylor
Director of Development
Christiane Shaw
Employee
Christopher Penner
Investor
James D Robinson
Advisor
Mark Lodish
Investor
Mark Murphy
Vice President of Public Affairs
Mark Zhu
Investor
Matt Harris
Advisor
Meltem Demirörs
Employee
Shlomo Klahr
Employee
Simi Wurtzel
Vice President of Finance
Stephan Paternot
Investor
Steven Wesolowski
Employee
Travis Sher
Vice President of Investments
Tristan Loffler
Employee
Whitney Simmons
Employee
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Digital Currency Group
Company
Barry Silbert
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