Investing Profile

Najam Kidwai

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Venture Partner at Frontier Ventures | Founder and Chairman at Crypto 1 Acquisition Corp

frontier.ventures/team/najam-...Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Current Investing Position

Frontier Ventures Partner

Investment Range

$100K - $5.0M

Sweet Spot

$1.5M

Investments On Record

Najam Kidwai's Investments On Record (6)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Uphold	Series UnknownMar 2026
Co-investors: Aly Walji (Sparq Capital (SFO))
ConsenSys	Series UnknownDec 2025	$920M
Co-investors: Daniel Loeb (Third Point Ventures), Katya Kovalenko (The LAO), Marvin Tien (Corner Ventures), William Lane (Ethos Family Office), Anton Dziatkovskii (Platinum Software Development Company), Nikki Farb (Grove Collaborative)
Alchemy	Series UnknownNov 2025	$580M
Co-investors: Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Joey Krug (Founders Fund), Jay Rughani (Andreessen Horowitz), Julie Yoo (Andreessen Horowitz), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Andy McLoughlin (Uncork Capital), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Anand Iyer (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Matt Ocko (DCVC (Data Collective)), Amy Wu (Menlo Ventures), Emilie Choi (Coinbase Ventures), Randy Glein (DFJ), Ben Orthlieb (Linkedin), David Mes (Off The Grid Ventures), Eric Kwan (Locus Ventures), Shawn (Jay-Z) Carter (Marcy Venture Partners), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Kris Fredrickson (Verified Capital), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Thomas Glocer (Angelic Ventures), Will Smith (Dreamers VC), Keisuke Honda (Dreamers VC), Jay Brown (Marcy Venture Partners), Chi-Hua Chien (Goodwater Capital), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Navin Chaddha (Mayfield Fund), James Hong (NewCo), Shervin Pishevar (ACME Capital), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Patrick Chang (Dispersion Capital), Balaji Srinivasan, Chris Kelly, Jared Leto, John Hennessy, Jay Z, Jeff Seibert
Kraken	Series UnknownOct 2025	$620M
Co-investors: Hao Huang (UpHonest Capital), P. Bart Stephens (Blockchain Capital), Thomas Witt (Expedite Ventures), Dr. Andrei Popescu (SCX Holdings), Barend Van den Brande (Hummingbird Ventures), Firat Ileri (Hummingbird Ventures), Brad Stephens (Blockchain Capital LLC), Barry Silbert (Digital Currency Group), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Rashaun Williams
Chainalysis	Series UnknownOct 2025	$540M
Co-investors: Sigal Mandelker (Ribbit Capital), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Amit Kumar (Accel), Kevin Spain (Emergence Capital), Jenny Fielding (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Nico Wittenborn (Adjacent), Koichiro Nakamura (Sozo Ventures), Hunter Mcnabb (9Yards Capital), Ash Egan (Archetype), Maia Heymann (Converge Venture Partners), Sarah Tavel (Benchmark Capital), Philippe Botteri (Accel Partners), Kris Fredrickson (Verified Capital), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures)
Ripple	Series UnknownOct 2025	$86M
Co-investors: Jeremy Liew (Lightspeed Venture Partners), James D Robinson (RRE Ventures), Manuel Silva Martinez (Mouro Capital), Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures), Nurzhas Makishev (NKM Capital), Barry Silbert (Digital Currency Group), J J (GreaterGoodSociety), Tim Kendall

Najam Kidwai's Experience

Founder and Chairman Crypto 1 Acquisition Corp.2021 - Present

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