Najam Kidwai's Investing Profile - Frontier Ventures Partner

Current Investing Position

Frontier Ventures Partner

Investment Range

$100K - $5.0M

Sweet Spot

$1.5M

Investments On Record

6

Najam Kidwai is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

TransportationTech (Series B)Web3/Blockchain (Series B)Web3/Crypto (Series B)AI (Series B)Payments (Seed)Gaming/eSports (Seed)TransportationTech (Series A)Entertainment & Sports (Seed)Entertainment & Sports (Series B)Entertainment & Sports (Series A)E-commerce (Series B)TransportationTech (Seed)Gaming/eSports (Series B)Gaming/eSports (Series A)Payments (Series B)E-commerce (Series A)Consumer Internet (Series B)Payments (Series A)Web3/Blockchain (Seed)Web3/Blockchain (Series A)Web3/Crypto (Series A)AI (Seed)Web3/Crypto (Seed)AI (Series A)E-commerce (Seed)Consumer Internet (Seed)Raleigh-Durham / Southeast US Digital Health (Series B)Consumer Internet (Series A)Digital Health (Series A)Digital Health (Seed)

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: Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), Joey Krug (Founders Fund), Andy McLoughlin (Uncork Capital), Jay Rughani (Andreessen Horowitz), Julie Yoo (Andreessen Horowitz), Matt Ocko (DCVC (Data Collective)), Emilie Choi (Coinbase Ventures), Jay Brown (Marcy Venture Partners), Ben Orthlieb (Blue Moon), Keisuke Honda (Dreamers VC), Shawn (Jay-Z) Carter (Marcy Venture Partners), Will Smith (Dreamers VC), John Hennessy (Stanford University), Eric Kwan (Locus Ventures), David Mes (Off The Grid Ventures), Chi-Hua Chien (Goodwater Capital), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Navin Chaddha (Mayfield Fund), Thomas Glocer (Angelic Ventures), James Hong (NewCo), Ravi Mhatre (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Shervin Pishevar (ACME Capital), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Randy Glein (DFJ Growth), Patrick Chang (The Alchemy Fund), Amy Wu (The Alchemy Fund), Anand Iyer (NEYON AI), Kris Fredrickson (Verified Capital), Jay Z, Chris Kelly, Jeff Seibert, Balaji Srinivasan, Jared Leto
Kraken	Series UnknownOct 2025	$620M
Co-investors: Hao Huang (UpHonest Capital), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), P. Bart Stephens (Blockchain Capital), Barend Van den Brande (Hummingbird Ventures), Firat Ileri (Hummingbird Ventures), Brad Stephens (Blockchain Capital LLC), Barry Silbert (Grayscale Investments), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Thomas Witt (Expedite Ventures), Dr. Andrei Popescu (SCX Holdings), Rashaun Williams
Chainalysis	Series UnknownOct 2025	$540M
Co-investors: Sigal Mandelker (Ribbit Capital), Kevin Spain (Emergence Capital), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Jenny Fielding (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Koichiro Nakamura (Sozo Ventures), Hunter Mcnabb (9Yards Capital), 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