Winklevoss Capital Management
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Venture Capital |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Founders | Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss |
| Headquarters | Flatiron District, New York City , United States |
Key people | Sterling Witzke, Partner |
| Website | winklevosscapital |
Winklevoss Capital is a family office founded in 2012 by Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss.[1] The firm invests across multiple asset classes including seed funding and infrastructure to early-stage startups.[2] The company is headquartered in New York's Flatiron District.[2]
On April 11, 2013, Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss revealed ownership of approximately 1% of bitcoins in circulation, worth about $11 million,[3] via Winklevoss Capital.[4] The brothers began buying bitcoin when the value of a single coin was in the single digits.[4]
On July 1, 2013, Digital Asset Services, LLC (wholly owned by Winklevoss Capital) filed a Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to create the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust, an exchange-traded fund for bitcoin.[5][6]
In 2013, Winklevoss also led a funding round for BitInstant, a Bitcoin exchange start-up based in New York City. Winklevoss Capital, along with other investors, raised $1.5 million in seed funding to help BitInstant increase its staff and scale up its product.[3] Since then, Winklevoss Capital has invested in a number of early-stage equity companies and token networks in the cryptocurrency space.
In 2014, Winklevoss Capital invested in Protocol Labs.[7] The firm also participated in the fundraising for Filecoin in 2017.
Venture capital activities
Winklevoss Capital actively invests in early-stage startups in fintech, direct-to-consumer brands, education, and gaming. The firm's investments include:
- Animoca Brands[8]
- August Locks[9] (alongside Bessemer Venture Partners, Comcast Ventures, and Qualcomm Ventures)
- Carbon38[10]
- Cabify[11] (alongside Rakuten)
- Caviar[12] (acquired by Square, Andreessen Horowitz was also an investor)
- Flexport[13] (alongside Founders Fund, Joe Lonsdale, SoftBank Vision Fund, and First Round Capital)
- FiscalNote[14] (alongside Temasek)
- Kindbody[15] (alongside Chelsea Clinton)
- L.[citation needed]
- Makespace[16] (alongside Carmelo Anthony and Nas)
- MemeBox[17]
- MeUndies[citation needed]
- Minibar[18]
- Octane Security[19]
- Real Bedford FC [20]
- Rowing Blazers[21]
- Shinesty[citation needed]
- Teachable[22] (alongside Naval Ravikant)
- The Sandbox[23]