Organization · Venture Capital
DBA
DBA is a New York-based crypto investment firm that provides long-term capital to protocols and companies across all stages of maturity in the cryptocurrency sector, focusing on high-conviction investments.
Overview
What DBA does
What DBA is
DBA is a New York-based crypto investment firm that provides long-term capital to protocols and companies across all stages of maturity in the cryptocurrency sector, focusing on high-conviction investments.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
The current public profile supports funder capabilities. Each capability below is shown separately so organization identity and role-specific information do not get conflated.
Operational profile
Organization status and context
Organization status describes the entity itself. Funding and program availability appear within the relevant capability profile.
- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Venture Capital
- Structured capabilities
- Funder
- Last reviewed
- May 5, 2026
Official channels
Find DBA elsewhere
Open the official website or a supported primary organization account.
Capability profile
DBA as a funder
Investment thesis
DBA believes that the future of finance should be funded by concentrated, domain-expert investors rather than index-style exposure, focusing on infrastructure-heavy crypto investments.
Focus narrative
DBA invests in the cryptocurrency sector, providing capital to various protocols and companies regardless of their stage of maturity. The firm focuses on ideas that they believe are significant for the future of crypto, including infrastructure, stablecoins, decentralized exchanges, and capital formation platforms.
Value beyond capital
DBA provides long-term capital and domain expertise to its portfolio companies, emphasizing partner-led investing where the partners who meet the founders are the ones making decisions and supporting the companies over a long horizon.
Focus and fit
- Stages
- Friends and Family · Angel · Accelerator · Pre-seed · Seed · Seed+ · Series A · Series A+ · Series B · Series B+ · Series C · Series C+ · Series D · Series E · Series F · Growth Equity · Pre-IPO · Ipo · Secondary · Bridge · Recap
- Sectors
- Defi
- Regions
- Global · North America
Availability
- Currently deploying
- Yes
Portfolio and track record
Portfolio context
Alpen Labs — Bitcoin scalability company referenced in DBA's Bitcoin L2 thesis. DoubleZero — base-layer infrastructure company. Monad — base-layer infrastructure company. Payy — stablecoin application. MetaDAO — ICO/capital-formation platform.
Common questions
What to know about DBA
Upseed classifies DBA under the Venture Capital organization type. Its current public profile includes funder capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
Know what this page is based on
Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
May 5, 2026
Known limits
Capability profiles appear only when a structured public profile also contains decision-useful role evidence. Terms and availability can change.
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