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 (5)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
ConsenSys	Series UnknownDec 2025	$720M
Co-investors: Marvin Tien (Corner Ventures), William Lane (Ethos Family Office), Anton Dziatkovskii (Platinum Software Development Company), Katya Kovalenko (The LAO), Nikki Farb (Headline (formerly e.ventures))
Alchemy	Series UnknownNov 2025	$580M
Co-investors: Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Joey Krug (Founders Fund), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Andy McLoughlin (Uncork Capital), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Julie Yoo (Andreessen Horowitz), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Navin Chaddha (Mayfield), Matt Ocko (DCVC (Data Collective)), Amy Wu (Menlo Ventures), Emilie Choi (Coinbase Ventures), Randy Glein (DFJ), Eric Kwan (Locus Ventures), Ben Orthlieb (2.12 Angels), David Mes (Off The Grid Ventures), Anand Iyer (Canonical Crypto), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Kris Fredrickson (Verified Capital), Shawn (Jay-Z) Carter (Marcy Venture Partners), Patrick Chang (Dispersion Capital), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), 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), Jay Z, John Hennessy, Balaji Srinivasan, Chris Kelly, Jeff Seibert, Jared Leto, Shervin Pishevar, James Hong
Kraken	Series UnknownOct 2025	$620M
Co-investors: P. Bart Stephens (Blockchain Capital), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Brad Stephens (Blockchain Capital), Hao Huang (UpHonest Capital), Firat Ileri (Hummingbird Ventures), Dr. Andrei Popescu (SCX Holdings), Thomas Witt (Expedite Ventures), Barry Silbert (Digital Currency Group), Barend Van den Brande (Hummingbird Ventures), Rashaun Williams
Chainalysis	Series UnknownOct 2025	$370M
Co-investors: Sarah Tavel (Benchmark), Sigal Mandelker (Ribbit Capital), Philippe Botteri (Accel), Amit Kumar (Accel), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Ash Egan (Archetype), Nico Wittenborn (Adjacent), Koichiro Nakamura (Sozo Ventures), Hunter Mcnabb (9Yards Capital), Kris Fredrickson (Verified Capital), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Maia Heymann (Converge Venture Partners)
Ripple	Series UnknownOct 2025	$86M
Co-investors: Jeremy Liew (Lightspeed Venture Partners), James D Robinson (RRE Ventures), Barry Silbert (Digital Currency Group), Nurzhas Makishev (NKM Capital), Manuel Silva Martinez (Mouro Capital), Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures), J J (GreaterGoodSociety), Tim Kendall

Najam Kidwai's Experience

Founder and Chairman Crypto 1 Acquisition Corp.2021 - Present

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