Variant

1 tracked neobank backed · North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, MENA, Asia, Oceania · variant.fund ↗

Crypto fund founded by ex-a16z partner Jesse Walden around the 'ownership economy' thesis; early Phantom backer.

Variant appears in the publicly disclosed early funding rounds of 1 of the 358 neobanks tracked in the open dataset. Sources are linked on each profile; this is notable-backer data from disclosed rounds, not a complete cap table.

Key people

Jesse Walden — co-founder & general partner ↗

Portfolio

Phantom San Francisco, US · est. 2021 web3-native · 15M MAU

Frequent co-investors

Firms appearing alongside Variant in the same neobanks' disclosed rounds.

Andreessen Horowitz · 1 shared Jump Crypto · 1 shared Paradigm · 1 shared

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