Regardless of the headwinds going through the enterprise capital business and its portfolio holdings, Sequoia Capital stays optimistic about its investments in cryptocurrency. Alfred Lin, seed/early companion at Sequoia, mentioned this week that the agency would stay dedicated to crypto funding, Reuters experiences.

Lin says that the enterprise capital big stays optimistic in regards to the cryptocurrency sector in the long run.

Sequoia Capital was hit exhausting by the collapse of the FTX alternate after pouring $225 million into the now-defunct crypto alternate solely to mark your entire funding down.

Lin admitted the VC big’s failure to uncover the connection between FTX and Alameda and alleged fraudulent actions performed by disgraced founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Although Sequoia owned lower than 1% of FTX, Lin famous that the previous may have requested for a seat on the latter’s board. Nevertheless, this proved unattainable because of the staking dimension.

Main concession

The reducing variety of enterprise capital offers has prompted Sequoia to decrease administration charges in its two not too long ago launched crypto and ecosystem funds, mentioned Lin.

The bear market has considerably suppressed enterprise investments throughout the board, driving Sequoia Capital’s present push for an unorthodox pricing mannequin for its crypto and ecosystem funds. The enterprise capital big communicated new modifications relating to charges to buyers in December, which now permits restricted companions (LPs) who dedicated capital to pay administration charges based mostly solely on deployed capital. Such an strategy has changed the normal capital administration mannequin.