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Diaspora Ventures, initially created by Carlos Diaz and Ilan Abehassera in 2020, Diaspora Ventures is a new kind of fund where everyone contributes to success, whether you are a founder, partner, venture partner, or LP.

After more than 20 investments, our goal remains the same: to connect ambitious European founders to the US ecosystem and democratize investing by allowing as many people as possible to participate in tech investments.

Diaspora Ventures

Lancelot

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that is engaged in the consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It is focused in seed, early stage, later stage, expansion stage, start-up, growth companies, and incubation and has specialized in debt financing for start-up and growth companies.

Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in various sectors: enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social. It mainly invests in countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India.Lightspeed Venture Partners was founded in 2000 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in Beijing, China; Shanghai, China; New Delhi, India; and Herzelia Pituach, Israel.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

COPA, The Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance, operates on the principle that open access to patents covering foundational cryptocurrency technologies is necessary for the community to grow, freely innovate, and build new and better products.

It is a non-profit community of like-minded people and companies formed to encourage the adoption and advancement of cryptocurrency technologies and to remove patents as a barrier to growth and innovation. COPA acknowledges that cryptocurrency technology is built on the collaborative efforts of a community made up of developers, engineers, and designers. The success of cryptocurrency is a direct result of the community coming together to build and develop upon existing technologies for the benefit of all, and we believe COPA will help this happen.

Crypto organizations have filed for hundreds of patents on cryptocurrency technology and continue to do so in large numbers, causing some concerns:

1/ Locking up foundational cryptocurrency technologies in patents stifles innovation and the adoption of these technologies in new and improved applications.

2/ While patents are useful defensively and can serve as a lawsuit deterrent, misguided and offensive use of patents by bad actors threatens the growth and free availability of cryptocurrency technologies. Many crypto companies do not own patents and are unable to adequately deter or defend against these bad actors.

COPA

Created to nurture and steward technologies and applications in the fields of decentralized web software protocols, particularly those which utilize modern cryptographic methods to safeguard decentralization, to the benefit and for the stability of the Web3 ecosystem.

WEB3

Dekrypt Capital is a leading investment firm focused on blockchain infrastructure, privacy-preserving technologies, and early-stage ventures. We invest in, mentor, and accelerate teams developing novel solutions to address the core issues of scalability, privacy, and interoperability for decentralized protocols and applications.

Dekrypt Capital

At Samsung NEXT, we partner with innovators to build ideas into products, grow products into businesses and scale businesses that leverage and transform the Samsung ecosystem.

New technologies, new business models and new consumer habits create change, and with change come opportunities for entrants to become leaders. We invest in, build, partner with and acquire startups to create opportunities and ensure that Samsung is a part of these new value streams.

We all know software is eating the world; now machine learning is eating software. This reality is not only changing the ways computers are impacting human lives but also how the systems are built. This fundamental shift affects how our digital and physical worlds connect, how machines help us accomplish tasks and how we interact with the machines.

The growth of sensors and computing at the connected edge are creating a path towards a further decentralized computing network. The cloud as we know it will no longer sustain the velocity, variety, and volume of data originating at the edge. Architectures and workflows will be stressed to the point where a new model is required.

Samsung NEXT

Ground X seeks to construct a world where the inherent worth and potential of each person is realized through cutting-edge technology. To that end, Ground X is constantly striving to identify the issues and needs that market and consumers are confronted with. By providing technology-based solutions to our market and consumers, we will create the real value. This, you see, is the kind of future designed by Ground X.‎

While many are discussing the computation speed for the next stage of blockchain technology, yet they are overlooking the convenience of companies and users who will use blockchain platform in the market. Based on our technologies and experience in implementing various global services(e.g., KAKAO), Ground X platform will provide an enterprise-friendly development environment, optimized computation speed and scalability, as well as UX / UI that is convenient for general users.

Ground X

BKCM LLC (the “Company”) is an investment management firm focused on global macro and currency investing, including investing in digital currencies. The Company is located in New York City and operates three funds pursuant to an exemption from CPO registration under CFTC Regulation 4.13(a)(3).

The Company’s web site is limited to the dissemination of general information pertaining to its investment services, together with access to additional investment-related information, publications, and links. Accordingly, the publication of Company’s web site on the Internet should not be construed by any consumer and/or prospective client as Company’s solicitation to effect, or attempt to effect transactions in securities or commodities, or the rendering of personalized investment advice for compensation, over the Internet. The Company does not make any representations or warranties as to the accuracy, timeliness, suitability, completeness, or relevance of any information prepared by any unaffiliated third party, whether linked to Company web site or incorporated herein, and takes no responsibility therefore. All such information is provided solely for convenience purposes only and all users thereof should be guided accordingly.

Please remember that different types of investments involve varying degrees of risk, and there can be no assurance that the future performance of any specific investment or investment strategy (including those undertaken or recommended by Company) will be profitable or equal any historical performance level(s). With respect to digital currencies, the price of the currencies remain volatile as well as the trading practices of participants in the market. There are cybersecurity risks relating to the hacking of trading platforms for virtual currencies as well as for virtual currency wallets in the spot market. There is also a degree of risk with respect to trading digital currencies through pump and dump schemes, insider trading, false disclosure, Ponzi schemes and other forms of investor fraud and market manipulation. The underlying cash markets and exchanges for Bitcoin remain unregulated and therefore, there are concerns about the price volatility and trading practices of participants.

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Each client and prospective client agrees, as a condition precedent to his/her/its access to Company’s web site, to release and hold harmless Company, its officers, directors, owners, employees and agents from any and all adverse consequences resulting from any of his/her/its actions and/or omissions which are independent of his/her/its receipt of personalized individual advice from Company.

Brian Kelly Capital Management

From idea to IPO and beyond, Sequoia helps the daring build legendary companies.

Sequoia is a venture capital focused on energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile startups. The firm helps a small number of daring founders build legendary companies. Its spurs them to push the boundaries of what’s possible. The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on energy, financials and financial services, healthcare and healthcare services, Internet, mobile, outsourcing, and technology.

The company was founded by Don Valentine in November 1972 and is based on Menlo Park, California.

Sequoia Capital

Adaptive Capital is a multi-strategy cryptocurrency hedge fund with a deep focus on on-chain analytics.

The breakthrough of an Internet-native digital scarcity and its programmability will disrupt the world's biggest markets, from payments, financing, exchange to even money itself. We are in the pioneering stages of this revolution.

Crypto-assets will become a major macro asset class. The new field of on-chain analysis of capital flows and network health will enhance crypto-asset portfolio management significantly.

Diaspora Ventures

Small VC Fund started by Ilan Abehassera (NY) and Carlos Diaz.