Pantera Capital

Pantera Capital
Investment firm
Industry Venture Capital
Founded 2003
Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States
Website https://panteracapital.com

Pantera Capital (est. 2003) is a San Francisco-based investment firm focused on blockchain technologies.[1][2]

Pantera was founded by CEO Dan Morehead, a former chief financial officer and head of macro trading at hedge fund Tiger Management.[3][2][4] Pantera announced in March 2014 that it had shifted its focus to bitcoin and other digital currencies, having previously been primarily working with global macro hedge-fund investments.[5]

Pantera’s portfolio investments include bitcoin services provider BitPesa,[6] exchange platform Bitstamp,[7] BitPagos Inc.,[8] 21 Inc.,[9] ChangeTip,[10] Circle[11] and Xapo.[3]

In 2014, Pantera announced a partnership with Fortress Investment Group, Benchmark and Ribbit Capital to create a shared bitcoin investment fund led by Pantera, Pantera Bitcoin Partners.[12][2] Of the deal, CEO Morehead said, “We believe Bitcoin is at an inflection point, making it the right time for a transition to more institutional management."[13] The partnership was said to indicate “a significant step in the push to move Bitcoin into the financial mainstream.”[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Baird, Cecile (30 December 2014). "Investing in the Bitcoin Space: Moe Levin Interviews Pantera Capital". CoinTelegraph (CoinTelegraph). Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Popper, Nathaniel (18 March 2014). "Fortress, Benchmark and Ribbit Buy Stake in Pantera Bitcoin". DealBook (The New York Times). Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  3. 1 2 Wong, Joon Ian (23 July 2014). "6 New Hedge Funds Seeking Bitcoin Returns". CoinDesk (CoinDesk). Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "Interview: Dan Morehead of Pantera Capital Management". HedgeFund Intelligence. HedgeFund Intelligence. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  5. ↑ Vaishampayan, Saumya (8 April 2014). "Pantera Capital Management offers ‘watered-down bitcoin’ for institutional investors". The Tell Blog (MarketWatch). Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  6. ↑ Vigna, Paul; Casey, Michael J. (9 February 2015). "BitBeat: Kenya’s BitPesa Raises $1.1 Million, Expands Operations". MoneyBeat (The Wall Street Journal). Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  7. ↑ Dougherty, Carter (17 March 2014). "Fortress-Linked Pantera Said to Invest in Top Bitcoin Exchange". BloombergBusiness (Bloomberg.com). Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  8. ↑ Wells, Georgia (17 June 2014). "BitPagos Raises $600,000 Seed Round to Boost Bitcoin Use in South America". The Wall Street Journal (The Wall Street Journal). Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  9. ↑ Ngo, Diana (11 March 2015). "Bitcoin Startup 21 Inc. Reveals Industry Record Funding of US$116 Million". CoinTelegraph (CoinTelegraph). Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  10. ↑ Higgins, Stan (2 December 2014). "ChangeTip Raises $3.5 Million for Bitcoin Micropayments Service". ChangeTip (ChangeTip). Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  11. ↑ Primack, Dan (27 April 2015). "Exclusive: Bitcoin company Circle raising new cash". Fortune (Fortune). Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  12. ↑ Casey, Michael J. (18 March 2014). "Pantera, Fortress Set Bitcoin Fund". The Wall Street Journal (The Wall Street Journal). Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  13. ↑ Peters, Chris; Kurane, Supriya (19 March 2014). "Fortress Investment, Benchmark Capital, Ribbit invest in bitcoin fund". Reuters (Reuters). Retrieved 6 May 2015.

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