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), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Joey Krug (Founders Fund), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Andy McLoughlin (Uncork Capital), Jay Rughani (Andreessen Horowitz), Julie Yoo (Andreessen Horowitz), 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), Shawn (Jay-Z) Carter (Marcy Venture Partners), Jay Brown (Marcy Venture Partners), David Mes (Off The Grid Ventures), Chi-Hua Chien (Goodwater Capital), Keisuke Honda (Dreamers VC), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Navin Chaddha (Mayfield Fund), Will Smith (Dreamers VC), James Hong (NewCo), John Hennessy (Stanford University), Shervin Pishevar (Craft Ventures), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Thomas Glocer (Angelic Ventures), Patrick Chang (Dispersion Capital), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Ravi Mhatre (Anthropic), Kris Fredrickson (Verified Capital), Eric Kwan (Locus Ventures), Jay Z, Jared Leto, Chris Kelly, Jeff Seibert, Balaji Srinivasan
Kraken	Series UnknownOct 2025	$620M
Co-investors: Hao Huang (UpHonest Capital), P. Bart Stephens (Blockchain Capital), Firat Ileri (Hummingbird Ventures), Brad Stephens (Blockchain Capital LLC), Barry Silbert (Digital Currency Group), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Thomas Witt (Expedite Ventures), Dr. Andrei Popescu (SCX Holdings), Barend Van den Brande (Hummingbird Ventures), Rashaun Williams
Chainalysis	Series UnknownOct 2025	$540M
Co-investors: Amit Kumar (Accel), 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)
Ripple	Series UnknownOct 2025	$86M
Co-investors: James D Robinson (RRE Ventures), Ullas Naik (Streamlined Ventures), Jeremy Liew (Lightspeed Venture Partners), 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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