Morgan Creek Digital raises over $40M for a venture capital fund

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  • Morgan Creek Digital raises $40 million for a venture capital fund that invests in the blockchain industry
  • The fund is anchored by public pensions, a university endowment, a hospital system, an insurance company, and a private foundation

Morgan Creek Digital, an asset management firm founded by Mark Yusko, Jason Williams and Anthony Pompliano, announced Tuesday that it successfully raised more than $40 million for a venture capital fund that invests across the blockchain and digital assets industry.

According to Pompliano, a former Facebook product manager, the fund originally targeted a raise of $25 million but he said the deal was oversubscribed by institutional investors. The fund is anchored by two public pensions and several other institutions invested including a university endowment, a hospital system, an insurance company, and a private foundation. Morgan Creek Digital is a unit of North Carolina-based Morgan Creek, a hedge fund. 

The fund will primarily make equity-based investments in seed-stage companies active in the blockchain space but it will also invest in security tokens and cryptocurrencies. Morgan Creek has previously invested in firms such as Bakkt, Harbor, and Coinbase. 

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Katherine Molnar, Chief Investment Officer of Fairfax County Police Officer’s Retirement System, an investor in the new fund, said that it is important “to be opportunistic and [is] excited to participate in [the blockchain industry] due to the attractive asymmetric return profile that it represents.”

The two pension funds that invested in Morgan Creek’s fund both manage more than $5 billion in assets under management, which means that an investment in Morgan Creek’s new fund represents a tiny position for them. Pompliano told CoinDesk that, as far as he knows, no other blockchain-oriented fund has raised money from a public pension. Jason Williams said that he thinks “many of the largest, most valuable companies of tomorrow will be built using [blockchain] technology."


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