Winklevoss Capital Management
Winklevoss Capital is a family office founded in 2012 by Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss. The firm invests across multiple asset classes including seed funding and infrastructure to early-stage startups. The company is headquartered in New York's Flatiron District.
Cryptocurrencies
On April 11, 2013, Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss revealed ownership of approximately 1% of bitcoins in circulation, worth about $11 million, via Winklevoss Capital. The brothers began buying bitcoin when the value of a single coin was in the single digits.On July 1, 2013, Digital Asset Services, LLC filed a Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to create the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust, an exchange-traded fund for bitcoin.
In 2013, Winklevoss also led a funding round for BitInstant, a Bitcoin exchange start-up based in New York City. Winklevoss Capital, along with other investors, raised $1.5 million in seed funding to help BitInstant increase its staff and scale up its product. Since then, Winklevoss Capital has invested in a number of early-stage equity companies and token networks in the cryptocurrency space.
In 2014, Winklevoss Capital invested in Protocol Labs. The firm also participated in the fundraising for Filecoin in 2017.
Venture capital activities
Winklevoss Capital actively invests in early-stage startups in fintech, direct-to-consumer brands, education, and gaming. The firm's investments include:- Animoca Brands
- August Locks
- Carbon38
- Cabify
- Caviar
- Flexport
- FiscalNote
- Kindbody
- L.
- Makespace
- MemeBox
- MeUndies
- Minibar
- Real Bedford FC
- Rowing Blazers
- Shinesty
- Teachable
- The Sandbox