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Margaret Gabriel is Head of Talent at CoinFund. Formerly, Head of Learning And Development at Gemini, Recruiter at Google.

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Margaret Gabriel

Alexander Pack was Founding Partner at Dragonfly Capital Partners, a cryptoasset venture fund. Advisor at Bain Capital Ventures, previously at AngelList.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. The second best way is to finance it.

Building new models for early stage technology investing at Dragonfly Capital, Bain Capital, AngelList.

Early investor in several of the largest crypto companies, firms, and tokens such as:
- Protocols: Compound Finance, 1Inch, UMA, MakerDAO, DYDX, Ethereum, Cosmos, Filecoin
- Infrastructure: Bybit, Amber Group, MatrixPort, Crusoe, CoinDCX, BlockFi
- Firms seeded: Polychain, Paradigm, Parafi, 1kx, Castle Island, Multicoin

Alexander Pack

Barry Silbert is the Founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group. Sitting at the epicenter of the bitcoin and blockchain industry, DCG is a global enterprise that builds, supports, and invests in companies all over the world. 

A pioneer in bitcoin investing, Barry established himself in 2012 as one of the earliest and most active investors in the industry. In 2015, he founded DCG and today, DCG is one of the industry’s most prolific investors, backing more than 120 companies in 30 countries around the world, including Coinbase, Ripple, BitPay, and Circle.

In addition to its investment portfolio, DCG owns Grayscale Investments (the largest asset manager in the industry with ~$2 billion in AUM), Genesis Trading (the largest regulated OTC crypto trader), and CoinDesk (the preeminent media and events company in the space). DCG also invests directly in digital currencies and other digital assets. 

Prior to DCG, Barry was the founder and CEO of SecondMarket, a venture-backed technology company that was acquired by Nasdaq. Barry has received numerous awards and accolades including being named Entrepreneur of the Year by both Ernst & Young and Crain's, and being selected to Fortune’s prestigious "40 under 40" list.

Before becoming an entrepreneur, Barry worked as an investment banker in New York. He graduated with honors from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University.

Barry Silbert

Steve Bennet is founder and managing director of Bodega Partners and is an active participant in the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial ecosystem as start-up CFO, Angel Investor, and Professor.  Over the past 20 years, he has been CFO, investor, and/or board member of over 50 technology start-ups, primarily in the software, Internet, and mobile sectors. Since 1995 he has taught entrepreneurial finance and is currently adjunct faculty at San Jose State University. He is also on the Steering Committee for the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship and UCLA Venture Capital Fund. Prior to and concurrent with Bodega, Steve was a Venture Partner at Outlook Ventures, Board Member of Sand Hill Angels, Partner at Menlo Incubator and held various financial and management positions at Bay Logics, Digital Microwave, and Arthur Andersen. Steve earned an undergraduate degree in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA. He blogs at www.professorvc.com and tweets @ProfessorVC.

Steve Bennet

Joseph Lubin is the co-founder of Ethereum, and the founder of ConsenSys, a blockchain app development firm. Lubin also helped to set up the non-profit Ethereum Foundation and VC fund ConsenSys Ventures, which invests in decentralized blockchain applications. Lubin holds a B.S. in Engineering from Princeton University. Building the decentralized Web 3.0 on Ethereum.

Joseph Lubin

I am an entrepreneur and founder of Electric Capital.

I was Director of Product Management at Facebook where I led the Local product team. I have also worked on Search and Ads at Google, started and sold a few companies, and invested in startups including Optimizely, Boom, Color, Cruise, Instawork, CaseText, and many more.

Most of my posts are based on email threads and conversations with entrepreneurs. If I end up sending the same email twice or have the same conversation twice, I turn it in to a blog post to save time in the future.

Avichal Garg

Casey K. Caruso is Investment Partner at Paradigm. Engineer, BS Computer Science, MS Machine Learning. Building Search Google. Investing in crypto.

Her main interests are technology and social pyschology. She is a transparent, bold, and reflective person.

Casey Caruso

Soona Amhaz is General Partner at Volt Capital, Co-Founder and CEO at Token Daily, pusher, unblocker, and occasional direction setter.

Soona Amhaz

Lao Mao, co-founder of INBlockchain, partner of Grandshore Capital, sponsor of EOS Laomao, former COO of Yunbi. His wechat account has published more than 200 articles with high net-value followers.

Lao Mao

Travis Scher leads the DCG’s venture capital and new cryptoasset investing. His responsibilities include sourcing, analyzing, and executing investments, and helping DCG portfolio companies raise additional capital.

Prior to joining DCG in 2015, Travis was an M&A attorney at Skadden Arps. He graduated with a J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School, and a B.B.A in Finance from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.

Margaret Gabriel

Hiring, Training, & Partnering with Top Talent in Crypto.