Chainfir Capital
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Chainfir Capital is a growth investment firm headquartered in New Zealand that invests in AI, Web3 and frontier-tech companies with proven revenue. It manages a $20M fund, 90% of which is proprietary capital, and provides talent matching and market access alongside capital.
Chainfir Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, founded in 2018. It invests directly in companies, at growth, in Web3, AI, frontier tech and fintech. Its stated cheque size is 4–8M USD primary growth equity. $20M under management and 34 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We back frontier-tech companies that already generate profit.”
— Chainfir Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Growth
- Headquarters
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Invests in
- APAC, Europe, North America, global
- Sectors
- Web3, AI, frontier tech, fintech, DeFi, DePIN, RWA, Web3 Gaming
- Cheque size
- 4–8M USD primary growth equity
- Founded
- 2018
- Assets under management
- $20M
- Portfolio
- 34 companies
Team, as Chainfir Capital publishes it
- Brian Tian Co-founder & Head of Post-Investment
- Li Xiangming Co-founder & Partner
- Dustin Dai Managing Partner
- Jeff Pan Investment Committee Member
- Tony Tse Strategic Advisor
- Zhao Longbing Partner
- Aditya Kumar South Asia Partner
- Tillmann Meyer Europe Affairs Advisor
- Sherry Li Project Director
- Ellen Chen Business Development Manager
- Ender Phan Technical Consultant
Names and roles exactly as listed on chainfir.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Chainfir Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.chainfir.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, sectors, thesis_quote, aum, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.chainfir.com/abouthq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, cheque_size, description, founded
- https://www.chainfir.com/teampeople
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Record 15070 · added 2026-10-20 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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