Involved from the start
Pantera Capital was founded by former Tiger Management Head of Macro Trading and CFO Dan Morehead. Pantera’s global macro strategy invested over $1 billion of institutional allocations. In 2013, Pantera created the first blockchain hedge and venture funds in the United States.
44,000%
Pantera Bitcoin Fund is up 44,000% since inception
$125 million
Pantera Venture Funds have realized $125 million on $23 million of invested capital across 26 companies.
210
Pantera has led about half of 210 investments since 2013.
Blockchain history
Pantera history
2003
Pantera Capital is founded.
2008
A global financial crisis. Satoshi publishes Bitcoin Whitepaper in response.
2009
The first Bitcoin block (known as Genesis Block) is mined.
2013
Ethereum Whitepaper is published.
2013
Pantera Bitcoin Fund launches as first cryptocurrency fund in U.S.
Pantera Venture Fund I — First blockchain-only venture fund.
2015
Ethereum Launches.
2015
Pantera Co-CIO, Joey Krug, creates first ICO on Ethereum with Augur launch.
2017
Pantera Early-Stage Token Fund — First early-stage token fund in U.S.
Pantera Liquid Token Fund launches.
2020
COVID-19 accelerates global adoption of digital assets as a hedge against unprecedented fiscal and monetary expansion.
Major public corporations begin putting Bitcoin on their balance sheets.
Meet the team
The team has decades of experience at top-tier financial firms, in addition to unparalleled technical talent.