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Founded in 2005, YCombinator is a famous business incubator in the United States. Y Combinator supports start-ups and provides them with business guidance. In 20 12, Forbes selected YC as the most valuable incubator. Sam, president of Y Combinator? Oort once gave a set of data: "There are 12000 incubators in the world, of which 8000 are in China, but among the1600 million dollars created by the companies that hatched this 12000 incubator,1500 million dollars came from the companies that hatched Y Combinator." In 20 15, IPFS created by Juan Benet won a huge investment in the YCombinator Incubation Competition and established the Protocol labs Protocol Laboratory.
2. Winkworth Capital Winklevoss Brothers Fund
Winklevoss Brothers Foundation is an investment institution founded by Winklevoss Brothers. It is also one of the most well-known investment institutions in the currency circle, because Winklevoss Brothers Fund once bought 1 1% bitcoin with 1 billion dollars, and the highest return was1billion dollars. Known as "the best candidate for speculating money", the Winklevoss brothers are also the founders of Facebook.
03. Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital 1972 was founded in Silicon Valley, USA. As the first group of institutional investors, Sequoia has invested in many innovative companies such as Apple, Google, Cisco, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Yahoo and LinkedIn. Sequoia Capital has localized funds in the United States, China and India. Sequoia Capital China is the most famous investment company in China Internet. Nearly 50 domestic Internet giants such as Alibaba, Ant Financial, JD.COM, Meituan, Didi and mobike all have Sequoia Capital behind them.
04. digital currency Group DCG Group
IDCG (International digital currency Group) is a holding company, which is committed to the entire ecosystem and diversified investment portfolio in the blockchain field, providing professional information services for global investors, exploring the practical application of blockchain technology, and providing diversified cryptocurrency management services.
IDCG is jointly created by the elite of Wall Street investment banks, the founder of cryptocurrency trading platform, independent directors, the pioneer team of joint blockchain technology, and celebrities in the fields of finance and technology. The core founding team of IDCG has a significant international financial background. Most of them come from the investment banking department of Deutsche Bank, UBS Group AG (UBS), Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and Accenture's blockchain project team, and have more than 50 years of financial experience on Wall Street. The core employees come from the product technology departments of famous enterprises such as NASA, McKinsey, Google, Goldman Sachs, Tencent, IBM, Huawei and KPMG.
Stanford University
StanfordUniversity, located in Palo Alto, southern San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA, is a world-famous private research university, close to the world-famous high-tech park Silicon Valley. According to the statistics of relevant institutions, as of June 20 18 and 10, a total of 83 Stanford alumni, professors or researchers have won the Nobel Prize, ranking seventh in the world. 27 have won the Turing Award (the highest award in the computer field), ranking first in the world; Eight people won the Fields Medal (the highest prize in mathematics), ranking eighth in the world. In 20 17- 18, Stanford University ranked second in the world in academic ranking of world universities and QS World University Rankings, and third in Times Higher Education World University Rankings and USNews World University Rankings. In 20 17, it was rated as the third in the world by Times Higher Education. Juan Benet, the founder of IPFS, studied at Stanford University.
06. Anderson Anderson? Holovitz Fund
AndreessenHorowitz is an American private venture capital company, which is founded by Mark? Anderson and Ben? Holovitz was founded in 2009. Since 2006, Anderson and Holovitz have been investing in technology companies. They invested in 90 Internet companies, including Skype, Zynga, Digg and Foursquare, Airbnb, Twitter and Facebook.
07. Fund Club
Is an emerging online equity crowdfunding organization dedicated to selecting the most promising startups. All legal documents and funds are conducted online, which is absolutely open and transparent. The success of a startup is rewarded. Is a powerful rising star in the investment field.
08. Union Square Venture Capital
UnionSquare Ventures, headquartered in new york, manages assets of $6,543.8 billion. With the popularity of digital currency, they focus on the blockchain and cryptocurrency industries, and plan to add value to their wealth through investment. An executive of Union Square Investment Company once said that the blockchain will be worth trillions of dollars. Albert, managing partner of USV? Wenger also said in an interview: "The company chose to enter the market in the early stage of blockchain development. If the project is suitable, it can make a lot of money. This idea is not crazy. " Judging from their choice of "making money" at the beginning of the establishment of Protocol labs, IPFS is a good project and a good project to make a lot of money.
09. Other investors
In addition to the well-known investment institutions mentioned above. IPFS has also attracted well-known independent investors.
Founder of AngelList, an American equity crowdfunding platform: NavalRavikant
Founder of Haystack Fund: Semilai Shah
Founder and CEO of Gyft.com: Vino Danlingham
Former Goldman Sachs trader and co-founder of Bitcoin Base: FredEhrsam.
JaanTallinn, co-founder of Skype and founder of Chilango, a British restaurant brand.
Co-founder of Figma &; CEO of silicon valley legend Mathematical Genius: Dylan Field
It turns out that IPFS investors are all big names in the investment circle, and Xinglan is more practical in his heart!
And WeChat official account: Star Blue Blockchain, published in the same language.