Tamara Frankel brings an unusually multidisciplinary background to venture investing, combining computer science training, art theory and photography education, and fashion design studies with hands-on experience as CFO at DECENTRAL and co-founder of Azoth Group, where she focused on tailored liquidity solutions for digital assets. At D1 Ventures, she's known as an early, thesis-driven backer in the Polkadot ecosystem who emphasizes how community culture acts as real infrastructure, while also serving as both a fund GP and repeat personal angel investor in Web3 startups.
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D1 Capital
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Web3 / Crypto, AI, Gaming / VR, Fintech
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Pre-Seed - Series A
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$100K - $1M
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D1 Capital is a crypto VC fund that explicitly backs autistic and eccentric founders while combining early-stage investing with market-building services including narrative design and meme propagation as core value-adds. Operating as a cross-border specialist anchored in Beijing with bases in San Francisco and Hangzhou, D1 has built concentrated expertise in deep Web3 infrastructure and creator-owned networks, helping founders bridge from crypto-native early adopters to mainstream growth capital through co-investments with Tiger Global, Coinbase, and other blue-chip investors.
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