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 (Sidus Heroes), Nikki Farb (Grove Collaborative)
Alchemy	Series UnknownNov 2025	$580M
Co-investors: Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Jay Rughani (Andreessen Horowitz), Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), Balaji Srinivasan (Andreessen Horowitz), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Andy McLoughlin (Uncork Capital), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Joey Krug (Pantera Capital), Julie Yoo (Andreessen Horowitz), Matt Ocko (DCVC (Data Collective)), Emilie Choi (Coinbase Ventures), Shervin Pishevar (ACME Capital), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Peter Thiel (The Founders Fund), Patrick Chang (The Alchemy Fund), Paul Veradittakit (Saison Capital / Bessemer Ventures (Intern) / Pantera Capital), Ben Orthlieb (Blue Moon), David Mes (Off The Grid Ventures), Eric Kwan (Locus Ventures), John Hennessy (Stanford University), Shawn (Jay-Z) Carter (Roc Nation), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Kris Fredrickson (Verified Capital), Randy Glein (DFJ Growth), Ravi Mhatre (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Anand Iyer (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Amy Wu (The Alchemy Fund), Thomas Glocer (Communitas Capital Partners, LLC), Will Smith (Dreamers VC), Keisuke Honda (KSK ANGEL FUND), Jay Brown (Marcy Venture Partners), Chi-Hua Chien (Goodwater Capital), Chris Kelly (Matrix Partners India), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Navin Chaddha (Mayfield Fund), James Hong (NewCo), Jared Leto, Jay Z, Jeff Seibert
Kraken	Series UnknownOct 2025	$620M
Co-investors: P. Bart Stephens (Blockchain Capital), Hao Huang (UpHonest Capital), Brad Stephens (Blockchain Capital LLC), Barry Silbert (Grayscale Investments), Arjun Sethi (Tribe-V Venture Capital), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Thomas Witt (Expedite Ventures), Dr. Andrei Popescu (SCX Holdings), Barend Van den Brande (Hummingbird Ventures), Firat Ileri (Hummingbird Ventures), Rashaun Williams
Chainalysis	Series UnknownOct 2025	$540M
Co-investors: Hunter Mcnabb (Index Ventures), Sigal Mandelker (Ribbit Capital), Kevin Spain (Emergence Capital), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Jenny Fielding (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Koichiro Nakamura (Sozo Ventures), Nico Wittenborn (Adjacent), Ash Egan (Archetype), Maia Heymann (Converge Venture Partners), Sarah Tavel (Benchmark Capital), Philippe Botteri (Accel Partners), Kris Fredrickson (Verified Capital), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Amit Kumar (Accel-KKR)
Ripple	Series UnknownOct 2025	$86M
Co-investors: Ullas Naik (Streamlined Ventures), James D Robinson (RRE Ventures), Manuel Silva Martinez (Mouro Capital), Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures), Nurzhas Makishev (NKM Capital), Barry Silbert (Grayscale Investments), Jeremy Liew (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), J J (GreaterGoodSociety), Tim Kendall

Najam Kidwai's Experience

Founder and Chairman Crypto 1 Acquisition Corp.2021 - Present

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