Venture Capital

Pantera Capital

Pantera Capital is a U.S.-based investment firm founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead (former Tiger Management head of macro trading and CFO) that pivoted in 2013 to become the first U.S. institutional asset manager focused exclusively on blockchain technology and digital assets. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in New York and San Juan, Puerto Rico, the firm launched the first cryptocurrency fund in the United States in 2013 and now manages roughly $3.5B-$3.8B across multiple fund strategies: a Bitcoin Fund for pure BTC exposure, an Early-Stage Token Fund, a Liquid Token Fund, a Blockchain Fund, and a series of Venture Funds for equity investments. Pantera backs token projects, exchanges, DeFi and infrastructure teams, wallets, custodians, and ecosystem builders from pre-launch token stage through growth-stage equity, writing checks from roughly $500K to $50M+ and having led about half of its 200+ investments since 2013. Notable investments include Coinbase, Circle, Ripple, Uniswap, Bitstamp, Polkadot, Near, Filecoin, StarkWare, and Ondo Finance.

190 portfolio companies 190 publish APIs here 13 properties
Venture CapitalCryptoBlockchainWeb3DeFiDigital AssetsSeedEarly StageGrowth EquityTokensInfrastructureNorth America
Portfolio Strength across 97 profiled portfolio companies on the network
5 top-rated API companies 0 exemplar · 5 strong
28 agent-ready companies 4 agent-native · 24 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 33.8
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 20.3

Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.

Pantera Capital has 190 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 97 (51%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 93 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Ankr, Ripio, Ripple, B3, 0x.

Portfolio on the Network

Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Ankr4 published contracts62.3Ripio1 published contract58.2Ripple5 published contracts55.6B34 published contracts55.00x3 published contracts54.4
Developing 28 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Coinflow1 published contract53.5Fordefi2 published contracts53.3Orthogonal2 published contracts53.1Civic2 published contracts52.7Coinme1 published contract51.5Coins.ph11 published contracts50.5Livepeer7 published contracts49.8Ondo Finance4 published contracts49.8MetaLend2 published contracts48.7Kusama1 published contract48.5Kyber Network3 published contracts48.1Anchorage Digital3 published contracts47.6Flexa1 published contract45.1Obol1 published contract44.9Orderly Network2 published contracts44.0Coinbase5 published contracts43.7Uniswap2 published contracts43.6Zircuit1 published contract43.3Sahara AI1 published contract42.4M01 published contract41.3BCB Group1 published contract41.2Autonomys1 published contract40.7Injective2 APIs40.7ThunderCore4 APIs40.7Circle1 published contract40.4Classic5 published contracts40.3Unstoppable Domains4 published contracts40.2API31 published contract39.7
Thin 42 Limited public surface area
Bakkt1 published contract39.2Docs1 published contract39.0bloXroute1 API38.6BitGo1 published contract38.2Eco2 published contracts37.9Veem1 published contract37.9StarkWare4 APIs37.7Surf1 published contract37.4OpenMind2 APIs36.5Cosmos2 published contracts36.0Handshake1 API36.0Harbor1 published contract35.5DMarket1 published contract35.3Teahouse1 published contract35.2Bitstamp1 published contract35.0Meter1 published contract34.1Bitso1 published contract34.0Mezo2 APIs33.7EDX Markets1 API33.1PowerTrade3 APIs33.1Helika2 published contracts33.0SynFutures1 published contract32.9Urbit2 APIs32.8AZA Finance2 published contracts32.5Chain1 API32.3Filecoin2 published contracts31.3Braintrust1 published contract31.2Morpho7 APIs31.2Liquity1 published contract29.6Origin Protocol1 published contract29.4Alchemy2 APIs28.8Vauld1 API28.6Audius2 published contracts28.3Morph2 APIs28.3Zcash4 APIs28.2Oasis Labs1 API27.2App15 APIs27.0Celer Network1 API27.0Gondi1 API26.9Pinata1 published contract26.8WAX2 APIs26.8BitClout (DeSo)1 API26.6
Emerging 19 Early or largely undocumented
Aurora1 API26.1NEAR7 published contracts25.9Mina2 APIs25.5BitOasis1 published contract24.9Maverick Protocol1 published contract24.8Tari1 API24.3Filament1 API24.2Nexus1 published contract24.0Notional4 APIs20.8Amber Group1 API20.0Reflexer1 API19.4Acala1 API19.1DODO1 published contract18.5Faraway1 API17.5Ancient82 APIs17.1Mirror1 API16.4Balancer4 APIs15.7Prism1 API14.9Cypherium2 APIs12.9
Minimal 3 Almost no public developer surface
Parallel1 API6.7Accountable1 published contract5.2VALR1 API5.1

Properties

Portfolio

Where the firm publishes its investments

Portfolio
Portfolio
 Portfolio
Portfolio
 InvestmentThesis
InvestmentThesis

Team

Partners and investing staff

Team
Team
 Team
Team

Content

Blog, podcast, newsletter, and research

BlogRSS
BlogRSS
 Blog
Blog

Firm

The firm itself

Website
Website
 Jobs
Jobs
 Contact
Contact
 Crunchbase
Crunchbase
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Twitter
Twitter

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 176 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Pantera Capital, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
176
of 190 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
23
+0.1 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
11.9
-0.1 vs catalog 12
Spread
0–71.9
median 20.2 · σ 16.6
How the 176 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 4Developing 29Thin 42Emerging 43Minimal 57
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 32.2 23.1 +9.1 176
Discoverability 60 58.2 +1.8 176
Contract Quality 19.2 17.6 +1.6 176
Operational Transparency 14.3 13.6 +0.7 176
Contract Governance 4.8 6.3 -1.5 176
Access Clarity 17.5 26.4 -8.9 176

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 13% 15% -2
MCP server (first-party) 13% 12% +1
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 4% 11% -7
Security 98% 98% 0
Arazzo workflows 3% 2% +1
Governance rules 7% 13% -6

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Arcade 71.9
  2. 2 Ankr 62.3
  3. 3 Ripio 58.2
  4. 4 Ripple Labs 55.6
  5. 5 B3 55
  6. 6 0x 53.9
  7. 7 Coinflow 53.5
  8. 8 Fordefi 53.3
  9. 9 Orthogonal 53.1
  10. 10 Civic 52.7
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Ripple Labs 51.8
  2. 2 Flashbots 49.6
  3. 3 Anchorage Digital 47.5
  4. 4 Ankr 46.9
  5. 5 Orthogonal 43.7
  6. 6 Kyber Network 40.1
  7. 7 Coinflow 39.9
  8. 8 Bakkt 39
  9. 9 BCB Group 38.2
  10. 10 Ondo Finance 37.1
This roster declares 190 members; 186 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 176 carry a score (95%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 162 of 176 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 3 October 2026, across 28834 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: pantera-capital
name: Pantera Capital
description: >-
  Pantera Capital is a U.S.-based investment firm founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead (former Tiger
  Management head of macro trading and CFO) that pivoted in 2013 to become the first U.S. institutional
  asset manager focused exclusively on blockchain technology and digital assets. Headquartered in the San
  Francisco Bay Area with offices in New York and San Juan, Puerto Rico, the firm launched the first
  cryptocurrency fund in the United States in 2013 and now manages roughly $3.5B-$3.8B across multiple
  fund strategies: a Bitcoin Fund for pure BTC exposure, an Early-Stage Token Fund, a Liquid Token Fund,
  a Blockchain Fund, and a series of Venture Funds for equity investments. Pantera backs token projects,
  exchanges, DeFi and infrastructure teams, wallets, custodians, and ecosystem builders from pre-launch
  token stage through growth-stage equity, writing checks from roughly $500K to $50M+ and having led about
  half of its 200+ investments since 2013. Notable investments include Coinbase, Circle, Ripple, Uniswap,
  Bitstamp, Polkadot, Near, Filecoin, StarkWare, and Ondo Finance.
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://panteracapital.com/favicon.ico
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Crypto
  - Blockchain
  - Web3
  - DeFi
  - Digital Assets
  - Seed
  - Early Stage
  - Growth Equity
  - Tokens
  - Infrastructure
  - North America
tags_raw:
  - Venture Capital
  - Crypto
  - Blockchain
  - Web3
  - DeFi
  - Digital Assets
  - Seed
  - Early Stage
  - Growth Equity
  - Token
  - Infrastructure
  - North America
apis: []
common:
  - url: https://panteracapital.com/article/feed/
    type: BlogRSS
  - type: Website
    url: https://panteracapital.com/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://panteracapital.com/portfolio/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/pantera-capital-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: https://panteracapital.com/team/
  - type: Team
    url: team/pantera-capital-team.yml
  - type: InvestmentThesis
    url: https://panteracapital.com/firm/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://panteracapital.com/article/
  - type: Jobs
    url: https://jobs.panteracapital.com/
  - type: Contact
    url: https://panteracapital.com/contact/
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pantera-capital
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pantera-capital
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/PanteraCapital
  - type: Features
    data:
      - "Stage: Pre-launch token, Seed, Early-stage, through Growth-stage equity"
      - "Typical check: ~$500K-$50M+ across fund strategies"
      - "Sectors: blockchain, crypto, digital assets, DeFi, infrastructure, exchanges, wallets/custody, Web3 gaming"
      - "Geography: Global; HQ San Francisco Bay Area with New York and San Juan (Puerto Rico) offices"
      - "AUM: ~$3.5B-$3.8B (self-reported, early 2026)"
      - "Fund strategies: Bitcoin Fund, Early-Stage Token Fund, Liquid Token Fund, Blockchain Fund, Venture Funds"
      - "Founded: 2003 (blockchain focus since 2013)"
      - "HQ: San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA"
    sources:
      - https://panteracapital.com/firm/
      - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantera_Capital
      - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pantera-capital
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com/
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: https://apisjson.org/
  - FN: Pantera Capital
    url: https://panteracapital.com/

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