Jesse Walden (@jessewldn) — Twitter Score 647 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 647 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranked #149 (top 0.1%) out of 483,652 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 106,111 followers as of August 2026 and 9,071 posts on the platform. He is mentioned by 373 accounts, with 656 total mentions.

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Jesse Walden draws followers from across the crypto and venture community. The accounts that follow Jesse Walden include 2,657 founders, 800 angel investors, 569 influencers and 54 VCs, among them Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen, jesse.base.eth, Toly, Solana and Cobie.