Jesse Walden (@jessewldn) — Twitter Score 623 out of 1000

Jesse Walden founded Variant Fund and previously co-founded Mediachain Labs with Denis Nazarov, a blockchain-based media metadata and attribution protocol that raised a $1.5M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures before being acquired by Spotify in April 2017. Jesse Walden's Twitter Score is 623 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranked #172 (top 0.1%) out of 389,587 accounts tracked on this platform.

Jesse Walden previously worked at a16z crypto as an investment partner on the firm's first crypto fund and led the a16z Crypto Startup School. He founded Variant Fund in 2020 around an ownership economy thesis, the view that decentralized networks turning users into owners grow faster and deliver better outcomes, later evolving the thesis to focus on autonomy, encompassing permissionless finance, crypto, and agentic AI. The firm has raised across four funds: $22.5M for Fund I in 2020, $110M for Fund II in October 2021, $450M for Fund III in July 2022, and $222M for Variant 4 in June 2026. He personally led investments in Uniswap, Phantom, Mirror, Flashbots, and Foundation, and the broader portfolio spans Farcaster, Blockaid, Blackbird, World, Polygon, Aztec Network, and Euler Finance. Variant 4's early investments include Honcho, here.now, and Octet, targeting permissionless and agentic finance. Variant also operates the Variant Founder Fellowship, a program offering resources and community for early-stage crypto builders. Jesse Walden's tracked investments include Reflexer.

Jesse Walden has 85,479 followers as of July 2026 and 9,008 posts on the platform. He is mentioned by 372 accounts, with 654 total mentions.

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Jesse Walden draws followers from across the crypto and venture community. The accounts that follow Jesse Walden include 2,311 founders, 667 angel investors, 849 influencers and 78 VCs, among them Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen, Laura Shin, jesse.base.eth, Toly and Solana.