Alameda Research was a cryptocurrency trading and venture capital firm based in Hong Kong.
During the 2020 United States presidential election, Alameda gave $5 million to Future Forward USA, a liberal political action committee (PAC) in support of presidential candidate Joe Biden.[1]
Alameda reportedly donated $5 million to Guarding Against Pandemics in 2022.[1:1]
Companies in Alameda's investment portfolio included:[2]
Schwartz, B. (2022, December 19). How former crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried and friends quietly donated to political groups and relatives. CNBC. https://web.archive.org/web/20221222201107/https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/19/how-ftx-founder-sbf-and-friends-quietly-donated-to-political-groups-and-relatives.html ↩︎ ↩︎
Shubber, K., & Elder, B. (2022, December 6). Revealed: the Alameda venture capital portfolio. Financial Times. http://archive.today/2022.12.12-024608/https://www.ft.com/content/aaa4a42c-efcc-4c60-9dc6-ba6cccb599e6 ↩︎