PROXIMA INVESTMENTS - Venture capital firm backing exceptional founders

Our Focus

We operate across three disciplines that reflect our conviction-driven approach to building and backing excellence

Venture Capital

We back founders and founding teams with a diverse blend of skills, insight, and executional strength. Our approach is deliberately selective and founder-centric: we support few, but engage deeply, combining capital with strategic and operational involvement to help teams scale with precision and resilience.

Advisory

We advise teams navigating strategy, commercialization, market structure, and execution complexity. Our work is most useful when the product is real but the go-to-market is weak, the story is strong but the execution path is unclear, or the opportunity is attractive but the structure needs sharper judgment.

Liquid Investments

Our liquid strategies follow the same principles that guide our venture work: precision, focus, and disciplined risk management. We actively allocate across digital assets and public markets through a data-driven, analytical framework, with an emphasis on shorter-duration token opportunities and targeted farming strategies that align with our fundamental investment methodology.

Portfolio

We back exceptional founders and ideas with clarity and conviction across Web3 infrastructure, DeFi, and emerging technologies

Advisory

We have a proven history of advisory and partnership engagements with prominent institutions across the Web3 ecosystem

Team

Founded in 2021 as Kronos Ventures, the venture arm of Kronos Research, we rebranded as Proxima in 2026 to expand our operations as an independent platform for ventures, liquid investments, and advisory. Our team combines decades of experience across investment banking, private equity, venture capital, and digital assets. From global institutions to emerging crypto ecosystems, we deliver disciplined investing backed by thorough diligence and deep operational expertise.

David Cai

David Cai

Co-founder and Managing Partner

Jason Brannigan

Jason Brannigan

Co-founder and General Partner

George Aranzaso

George Aranzaso

Senior Advisor

Bane Zhang

Bane Zhang

Advisor

Michael Dulski

Michael Dulski

Advisor

Evelyn Nguyen

Evelyn Nguyen

Investment Analyst