Global Blockchain Ventures

Global Blockchain Ventures, known as GBV, is a venture capital fund that concentrates on blockchain technology. It looks at how distributed ledgers combine with other technologies, and it offers sophisticated investors a fund structure for taking part in those opportunities.

Products and services

• Venture funding: backs projects that put blockchain to practical use.
• Technology focus areas: Internet of Things, medical technology, artificial intelligence and enterprise transformation.
• Advisory support: works with the projects it funds and lists special advisers alongside its partners.
• Published thinking: its team members have co-written books on blockchain in healthcare and on blockchain-enabled applications.

Clients

The fund serves sophisticated investors and early technology projects. Its partners list specialisms in banking, crypto exchanges, fintech, digital assets, life sciences and research and development.

Key facts

• Structure: venture capital fund led by a general partner and managing director
• Investment view: treats blockchain as a foundation that will converge with existing technology, not replace it