Our investors
Decrypt was incubated inside ConsenSys Mesh from 2018 to 2022, and in April 2022 raised $10 million in funding and spun out. These are our 22 investors:
Venture Firms
Canvas Ventures
Hack.vc
Hashkey Capital
IOSG Ventures
SKH Group
XBTO Humla Ventures
DAOs
Global Coin Research DAO
Honey DAO
Orange DAO
Own.fund
Strategic Partners
ConsenSys Inc.
Mask.io
Nexo Inc.
Protocol Labs
Angel Investors and Syndicates
Alex Bamberger
Audrey LLC
Don Ho
Jordan Garbis
Richard Dai
Steven Fingerhood
Terry McDonell
William Mougayar
A wall between business and editorial
Decrypt has strict "church and state" policies to ensure the business side of the company cannot exercise influence over the editorial staff. This includes excluding business and ad sales staff from our editorial Slack rooms. Our staff reporters are not involved in writing sponsored content.
Writers and their crypto holdings
Many Decrypt writers and editors own a small amount of cryptocurrency, in part to ensure they understand the industry they cover. All of our currently active full-time and freelance writers and editors disclose their crypto holdings on their author bio page—just click the byline at the top of any story.
If a writer owns a significant amount of a specific coin (other than Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana), they are discouraged from reporting on it. We define "significant" as having a value of more than $1,000.
We also publish content from the network of Rug Radio creators. These creators must also disclose their holdings but are free to produce content about any coin or token so long as disclosures are made.
We update the disclosures on author pages quarterly.