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§ Venture Capital · New York City, NY, USA
Community-driven research and investment DAO investing in early-stage crypto companies and protocols for Web3 accredited investors.
GCR has raised $1.0M across 1 funding round.
Key people at GCR.
GCR has raised $1.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Founded in 2017 by Joyce Yang, Global Coin Research (GCR) is a token-gated Web3 venture DAO that enables accredited investors to collectively source, diligence, and invest in pre-seed through Series A cryptocurrency startups. Operating without a known headquarters, the community-driven organization utilizes its proprietary GCR governance token, which features a total supply of ten million tokens and a fully diluted valuation of $1.24 million. GCR has successfully secured $1.2 million in external funding from prominent institutional cryptocurrency investors, including IDEO CoLab Ventures, 1kx, and GBIC. The decentralized autonomous organization is also backed by notable individual industry figures such as Jeffrey Zirlin, Bobby Ong, and Gabby Dizon. Beyond facilitating collective capital deployment, the DAO provides extensive portfolio support and comprehensive research access to its members alongside team members Jack Sun, Jin Kang, and Daniel Kim.
GCR (Google Cloud Ready) is primarily known as a validation and ecosystem program focused on climate tech startups that leverage Google Cloud infrastructure. Its mission is to accelerate climate mitigation and resilience by supporting innovative companies that provide solutions to reduce carbon emissions, improve supply chain sustainability, and manage climate risks. The program connects these startups with financial resources, technical support, and corporate partnerships to scale their impact. Key sectors include climate technology, clean energy, and sustainability-focused software. GCR influences the startup ecosystem by fostering collaboration between startups, corporations like HSBC, and investors, thereby enabling startups to access venture debt financing and expand their market reach[2][4].
GCR-Sustainability was launched about a year prior to 2024 as a Google Cloud validation scheme for climate tech companies hosting their solutions on Google Cloud. The initiative emerged from the need to support startups struggling to access finance despite having impactful climate solutions. Google Cloud partnered with HSBC in early 2024 to provide these startups with access to specialized climate tech financing, marking a pivotal moment in the program’s evolution. This partnership exemplifies GCR’s focus on combining cloud technology validation with financial and ecosystem support to accelerate climate tech innovation[2][4].
GCR rides the global trend of increasing demand for climate tech solutions amid growing climate change urgency. The timing is critical as enterprises seek to meet carbon reduction goals and manage ESG risks, creating strong market forces favoring validated, scalable climate tech offerings. By bridging cloud technology, finance, and sustainability, GCR influences the broader ecosystem by accelerating the commercialization of climate innovations and encouraging corporate-startup collaboration, which is vital for systemic climate action[2][4][1].
Looking ahead, GCR is poised to expand its partner network and increase the number of validated climate tech companies, supported by HSBC’s ambition to deploy $1 billion in climate tech finance. Trends such as increased corporate sustainability commitments, regulatory pressures, and technological advances in cloud computing will shape GCR’s journey. Its influence is likely to grow as it becomes a key enabler of climate tech scale-up globally, fostering a more resilient and sustainable startup ecosystem. This aligns with its foundational goal of accelerating impactful climate solutions through a unique blend of technology validation and financial support[2][4].
Key people at GCR.
GCR has raised $1.0M in total across 1 funding round.
GCR's investors include Animoca Brands, BEENEXT, Hashed, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Pantera Capital, Polygon, Square Peg Capital, Balaji Srinivasan, Kunal Shah, Nitish Mittersain, Sebastien Borget.
GCR has raised $1.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $1.0M GCR DAO - Seed in January 2022.
| Date | Company | Round | Lead Investor(s) | Co-Investor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 2022 | Paragraph | $1.7M Pre-Seed | — | Binance Labs, FTX Ventures, Seed Club Ventures, Sfermion |
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 2022 | $1M Seed | — | Animoca Brands, Beenext, Hashed, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Pantera Capital, Polygon Labs, Square PEG Capital, Balaji Srinivasan, Kunal Shah, Nitish Mittersain, Sebastien Borget | Announced |