What You’ll Be A Part Of:
Founded in 2015 by CEO Barry Silbert, Digital Currency Group is the most active investor in the blockchain sector with a mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system through the proliferation of digital assets and blockchain technology. Today, DCG sits at the epicenter of the industry, backing more than 200 blockchain-related companies in over 35 countries. DCG also invests directly in digital currencies and other digital assets.
We passionately believe digital currency and blockchain technology will drive global economic and social change. Our unique model enables us to deploy our resources to build over the long term.
What is the Role:
As a Venture Analyst at DCG, you will play a critical role in identifying and supporting high-potential startups across the blockchain ecosystem. You’ll be involved end-to-end in the investment process—sourcing new opportunities, conducting due diligence, and helping build conviction through research and analysis of emerging trends.
Unlike many investment roles, we actively welcome candidates from industry contexts such as crypto startups, exchanges, protocols, or adjacent sectors. Prior investing experience is not required—what matters is your ability to understand crypto-native businesses, evaluate opportunities with structured thinking, and work collaboratively within our team.
This role offers the opportunity to engage directly with founders, developers, and communities, while building deep expertise in one of the most dynamic industries in the world.
What You’ll Be Responsible For:
- Investment Due Diligence: Support the evaluation of potential venture investments, including product, tech, team and market fit. Develop financial or operating models to inform decision making. Contribute to investment memos and internal discussions.
- Research & Insights: Conduct sector and thematic research (leveraging onchain data, market analytics and proprietary datasets) on areas such as deAI, RWAs, Stablecoins, DeFi, Infrastructure, Payments and Consumer Crypto. Generate insights and reports on emerging technologies, competitive dynamics and regulatory shifts.
- Community & Network Engagement: Build relationships across the crypto ecosystem – founders, developers, researchers and institutions – to surface new investment opportunities and insights. Actively participate in relevant communities across platforms like X, Telegram, Farcaster, Discord. Leverage this network to track early stage startups, protocols, and trends in blockchain.
What You’ll Bring:
- Crypto Knowledge: Conversant in web3, with prior work experience and a strong personal interest in the space. Preference for candidates with experience areas the following areas: RWAs, stablecoins, or crypto financial services, but this is not a requirement.
- Analytical Skills: A background in finance, economics, computer science, or a related field, with a demonstrated ability to critically evaluate investment opportunities. Prior investment experience is preferred but not required.
- Curiosity & Open-Mindedness: A passion for discovering groundbreaking ideas and working with our portfolio founders who are reshaping industries.
- Team Player: A collaborative individual who works effectively in a team, contributing to a positive and productive team dynamic.
- Motivated & Driven: Demonstrates a strong work ethic, proactive mindset, and a commitment to going the extra mile to excel in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Organizational Skills: Highly organized, detail-oriented and have the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects and deliver on-time
What We Offer:
- Inspiring colleagues and an invigorating start-up environment
- Competitive base salary, bonus and incentive compensation
- Company paid health insurance for employee, partner and dependents
- Life insurance, short-term & long-term disability coverage
- 401K plan
- Pre-tax transit and parking program and flexible spending programs for medical and dependent care
- Unlimited PTO / Flexible time off
- Paid parental leave
- New water-front office with world-class perks and amenities
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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What We Do
Digital Currency Group's mission is to accelerate the development of a better financial system. We do this by building and supporting blockchain and digital currency companies using our network, insights, and access to capital.
DCG has been the most active investor in the digital currency industry, with investments in over 200 companies in 35 different countries.
We also own and operate seven businesses: CoinDesk (the industry's leading media, research, and events platform), Genesis (the industry's leading institutional lending and brokerage firm), Grayscale (the largest digital currency asset management firm), Foundry (a financing and advisory company focused on digital asset mining and staking), Luno (a leading global digital asset exchange and wallet), HQ (a wealth and lifestyle management platform), and Tradeblock (a leading provider of tools and data for institutional cryptocurrency traders).
NOTICE ON INVESTMENT SOLICITATIONS: Digital Currency Group does NOT solicit individuals about investments on any social media platforms. An unsolicited sales pitch may be part of a fraudulent investment scheme. Do not reply to messages soliciting investment or seeking any form of currency from accounts appearing to be DCG employees.
