Golden Record Ventures

Golden Record Ventures is a London-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in blockchain applications within the broader financial technology sector. The firm primarily targets startups operating across Europe and emerging markets that are actively developing software solutions for payments, asset management, capital markets, and related infrastructure. Its investment strategy emphasizes companies utilizing tokenization, stablecoins, and application programming interfaces to reduce the cost and time associated with capital transfers. Since its inception, the firm has backed a total of more than eight portfolio companies, including notable industry participants such as 21Shares, Ledger, Orbital, and Parfin. Recent investment activity includes backing Latin American payments platform Koywe in 2024 and participating in a $6.4 million funding round for an early payment infrastructure project in 2023. Golden Record Ventures was founded in late 2022 by Filippos Kodellas and Jad Benabdelkhalek.