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Brian Lu is Partner at Headline Asia formerly known as Infinity Ventures (IVP), Founding Partner at Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC), Co-Founder of YGG SEA.

SweeperDAO

YGG SEA

Headline

Infinity Ventures Crypto

Brian Lu

Kyoko

Alexander Liegl

Founder of CoinFund. Engineer; Investor; Researcher of Crypto Economic Systems & Decentralized Networks.

I am a technologist with a background in mathematics and computer science and experience in distributed systems, web development, product management, private equity research, and startups.

My current area is deep technical and financial expertise in the field of blockchain technologies and decentralized systems. I am a co-founder of CoinFund, a blockchain research company and one of the first private investment vehicle focused on the blockchain space.

Previously, I was Partner & CTO at Triton Research, technical product manager and engineer at Amazon.com, and spent 5 years in financial technology in New York City.

Jake Brukhman

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and co-founder of AngelList. He’s invested in more than 100 companies, including Uber, Twitter, Yammer, and many others.

I am a founder and Chairman of AngelList. I’m also a Venture Partner at MetaStable. I previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. I’m an active angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Wish, Thumbtack, Postmates, Kraken, Yammer, Stack Overflow and OpenDoor.

Naval Ravikant

Alex Thorn is Head of Research at Galaxy Digital. Formerly Investor at Avon Ventures, Blockchain Research at Fidelity Investments. Investing in digital assets and bitcoin/crypto/blockchain companies at Avon Ventures, a venture fund affiliates with FMR LLC, the parent company of of Fidelity Investments.

He is at Avon Ventures, Invest in early stage ventures working on bitcoin, cryptoassets, and blockchain technology at Avon Ventures, a venture fund affiliated with FMR LLC, the parent company of Fidelity Investments.

And he is Director of Blockchain Research, Conduct and produce research on bitcoin, cryptoassets, digital assets and blockchain technology at Fidelity Center for Applied Technology and Fidelity Labs.

Represent Fidelity Institutional to state and federal regulators. Research, investigate and respond to inquiries and examinations made by regulatory agencies. Liaise with Legal Department on complex litigation and regulatory matters resulting from regulatory scrutiny or inquiries. Innovate technology and systems solutions for the compliance team to create more efficiency business processes, workflows, and strategies. Consult on emerging technology issues, including cryptocurrencies, digital assets, and cyber security. 

Manage document review process for Fidelity Legal. Consult with in-house counsel and management on discovery process, innovating procedures and creating efficiencies to improve quality. Manage vendor relationships for data processing and hosting. Oversee or directly manage hundreds of cases affecting all Fidelity business units. Act as project manager communicating clearly with in-house and outside attorneys, business partners and management and coordinating projects to successful outcomes. Advise enterprise infrastructure and business units regarding the use of new media, data sources, and communications tools in a regulated environment. Promote Fidelity's positions on retention, legal discovery and social media at conferences and to external parties and industry groups. 

Performed interviews in support of litigation and ensured accuracy and integrity of data collected. Collaborated with design team to develop business processes and software necessary to create a centralized litigation research team. Acted as gate keeper responsible for extracting information from legal documents served on Fidelity and identifying specific allegations and potential business issues. Conducted research to identify and collect evidence for litigation and regulatory investigations. Researched and managed evidentiary case file for over 200 legal investigations. Trained 5 new hires before leaving this role.

Alex Thorn

Prior to founding Castle Island Ventures, Matt was a Vice President at Fidelity Investments where he led a number of the firm’s blockchain / cryptoasset initiatives. While at Fidelity, he led the creation, operationalization, and the investment strategy of a private fund focused exclusively on the cryptoasset sector.

Matt holds a BS in Business Administration from Babson College and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Matthew Walsh

As an entrepreneur, inventor, and investor, Gary Kremen has over twenty five years of experience with emerging growth companies and developing breakthrough technology.

He is founder of several Silicon Valley companies.  In 1993, he founded Match.Com the world’s largest dating company where he came up with he idea of online dating, wrote the original business plan, invested the original capital, lead the design of the product and hired the first 20 employees.  Kremen also founded Clean Power Finance (backed by Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures and Claremont Creek Ventures), the leading residential solar power financing platform company which over one third of all solar installers in the U.S. run their business upon.  He co-founded, with Ben Dubin, Full Source Software and Los Altos Technologies, early Internet firms.  Gary incubated, was the first outside board member and wrote the first check in Dolores Labs (now Crowdflower), the leading crowdsourcing company.

He is an investor in over 50 companies including such clean technology companies as HydroNovation, Watersmart Software (where he is the Chairman), Sunlink, Carbon Flow, Recurve, Greenbox (acquired by Silver Springs Network), Enmetric, Ready Solar (acquired by Sun Edision), Solar Universe, Lifefactory, People Power Co., Niman Ranch, and Marone Bio Innovations.
Gary is the primary inventor of the seminal U.S. patent for dynamically created web pages, patent #5,706,434 as well as patents #7,698,210 and #7,890,436.  He holds an MBA from Stanford University as well as degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Northwestern University.

Gary Kremen

Perpetually fooled by randomness. Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital.

I’m co-founder and managing partner at Multicoin Capital, a thesis-driven cryptofund focused on driving returns for investors long-term. I’m proud to say that we’re one of the most respected firms in the space, backed by some of the smartest investors in the world. 

I started programming when I was 10 years old. I'm absolutely fascinated by software. It’s been a lifelong passion that’s guided me to what I believe is the dawn of a new asset class.

As managing partner at Multicoin, I spend every waking moment examining market forces and searching for new opportunities. I also enjoy working closely with our portfolio, conducting in-depth research, and designing crypto-native investment strategies. I’ve invested the bulk of my time and money into this firm. I have every intent to be here for the long-haul. 

My uncanny superpower is the ability consume and synthesize massive amounts of complex information, and distill the core concepts such that they can be explained to a 5-year old. I share my thoughts publicly on Multicoin's blog.

Prior to starting Multicoin, I co-founded Pristine, an enterprise software company that enables deskless workers with solutions for smart glasses. During my time as CEO we grew to millions in revenue and raised over $5 million in venture capital before being acquired by Upskill in May, 2017. It was amazing journey and a tremendous learning experience. 

I hold degrees in Finance and Management from NYU Stern. And, if the internet made a degree in crypto, I would hold that too.

Kyle Samani

Michael Anderson is Co-Founder at Framework Ventures. Previously, he was at Hashletes, Snap and Dropbox.

Michael Anderson

Andrew Kang is Co-Founder of Mechanism Capital, Investing in Crypto - Prop Trading, Mining, Venture, Shitcoin Secondary Markets.