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: William Lane (Ethos Family Office), Daniel Loeb (Third Point Ventures), Katya Kovalenko (The LAO), Marvin Tien (Corner Ventures), Anton Dziatkovskii (Sidus Heroes), Nikki Farb (Grove Collaborative)
Alchemy	Series UnknownNov 2025	$580M
Co-investors: Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Andy McLoughlin (Uncork Capital), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Joey Krug (Founders Fund), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Jay Rughani (Andreessen Horowitz), Julie Yoo (Andreessen Horowitz), Amy Wu (Menlo Ventures), Matt Ocko (DCVC (Data Collective)), Emilie Choi (Coinbase Ventures), Randy Glein (DFJ), John Hennessy (Stanford University), Eric Kwan (Locus Ventures), David Mes (Off The Grid Ventures), Ben Orthlieb (Blue Moon), Chi-Hua Chien (Goodwater Capital), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Navin Chaddha (Mayfield Fund), Jay Brown (Marcy Venture Partners), James Hong (NewCo), Keisuke Honda (Dreamers VC), Shervin Pishevar (Craft Ventures), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Will Smith (Dreamers VC), Patrick Chang (Dispersion Capital), Thomas Glocer (Angelic Ventures), Ravi Mhatre (Anthropic), Anand Iyer (NEYON AI), Kris Fredrickson (Verified Capital), Shawn (Jay-Z) Carter (Marcy Venture Partners), Jay Z, Chris Kelly, Jeff Seibert, Balaji Srinivasan, Jared Leto
Kraken	Series UnknownOct 2025	$620M
Co-investors: Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), P. Bart Stephens (Blockchain Capital), Hao Huang (UpHonest Capital), Firat Ileri (Hummingbird Ventures), Brad Stephens (Blockchain Capital LLC), Barry Silbert (Digital Currency Group), 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: Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Sigal Mandelker (Ribbit Capital), Kevin Spain (Emergence Capital), 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: Jeremy Liew (Lightspeed Venture Partners), James D Robinson (RRE Ventures), Ullas Naik (Streamlined 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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