North Island Ventures

Day-to-day investing is led by Managing Partner Travis Scher, who invested in over 100 crypto startups during his prior tenure at Digital Currency Group, and General Partner James Hutchins, who leads the firm's research effort. Glenn Hutchins serves as Chairman and is not involved in daily investment operations. The lean partnership structure means investment committee decisions sit with the co-founders.

The firm sources through the lived crypto investing history of its founders — Travis Scher's decade-deep network from the DCG ecosystem and James Hutchins' data-driven research funnel built during his tenure running research at Coatue. Glenn Hutchins' institutional relationships across Silver Lake, AT&T, and the Federal Reserve system provide warm introductions to later-stage co-investors and strategic corporate partners, but early-stage deal flow arises from crypto-native developer and protocol founder communities.

The firm does not invest outside crypto-native businesses. It does not back traditional fintech, enterprise SaaS, biotech, hard tech, or consumer startups. Even within crypto, the portfolio concentrates on infrastructure, developer tooling, stablecoin rails, and protocol security — it is not a generalist crypto fund chasing NFTs, metaverse land, or meme tokens.