Experts

Michiel Lescrauwaet is Managing Partner at Tioga Capital, Co-founder of Adamant Capital. Adamant Capital's primary objective is to responsibly outperform Bitcoin by leveraging Bitcoin's liquid reserve asset properties, and by investing in the ecosystem of digital currencies.

Formerly, He was Independent Researcher at Arabesque Asset Management. At Arabesque I primarily focused on developing algorithms to improve S-Ray, which measures the sustainability score of over 7000 companies worldwide.

Adamant Capital

Tioga Capital

Michiel Lescrauwaet

RareRound

Zerion

Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly Capital. I’m a programmer, a writer, a teacher, a public speaker, and an Effective Altruist. Formerly, I’m a general partner at MetaStable Capital, a cryptocurrency hedge fund.

I teach a class on cryptocurrencies at the Bradfield School of Computer Science. I was formerly a software engineer at Airbnb. Before that I was Director of Product at App Academy. Before that I was a mental coach and wrote a book called The Philosophy of Poker. And before that I was a world-class professional poker player, sponsored by Full Tilt Poker.

That’s me in a nutshell. It’s a pretty strange path, from professional poker player to software engineer to investor. But if you want to get the full picture, you’ll need to know my origin story. It’s good, I promise.

Haseeb Qureshi

Balaji S. Srinivasan is co-founder of Counsyl (acquired by Myriad), Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), Teleport (acquired by Topia), and Coin Center. Formerly the CTO at Coinbase.

Prior to the Coinbase acquisition, Balaji took over as CEO of Earn's predecessor to help turn that company around. Before that, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won a Wall Street Journal Innovation Award and was named to the MIT TR35.

Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Balaji S. Srinivasan

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

Roham Gharegozlou is Founder and CEO of Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties and upcoming projects like NBA Top Shot and the Flow blockchain. Former CEO at Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio based in Vancouver, BC, creators of ZenHub, Routific, Timeline, and more. Investor/advisor to awesome startups, former VC, relentless optimist. Interests focused on entrepreneurship, technology, bio-medicine and economic development.

Roham Gharegozlou

Stuart Haber is President at Stuart Haber Crypto. Working on blockchain techniques since 1990. Co-founder with Scott Stornetta of Surety, spun off from Bellcore to commercialize our digital time-stamping algorithm -- the first to use a publicly accessible linked chain of hash values to ensure the integrity of digital information, what's now known as the blockchain. Expert in cryptography and computer security.

Stuart Haber

Su Zhu is CEO and CIO at Three Arrows Capital, Co-Founder at Sensus Markets. Three Arrows Capital is a Singapore-based hedge fund.

Su Zhu

Konstantin Lomashuk is Co-founder of Commun, Founder of p2p.org, P2P Validator. He is Entrepreneur, blockchain investor Ethereum, Cosmos, Dfinity, EOS, Tezos, Polkadot. Previously co-founder Satoshi Fund.

Konstantin Lomashuk

Alexis Ohanian is Co-founder, Initialized Capital (earliest seed investor in 100+ great startups — $36B in market value so far). Bestselling author. Co-founder, Reddit. Son of an undocumented immigrant.

Alexis Ohanian

Meltem Demirors is a cryptocurrency investor, advisor, and advocate, with a unique blend of experience in both legacy & blockchain-based finance and cryptocurrencies. On the legacy finance front, Ms. Demirors worked with some of the largest companies in the world, mainly on financial risk management and capital efficiency. On the blockchain-based finance side, she has had an intense focus on portfolio management and network development, beginning in the early days of cryptocurrency ecosystem development.

Meltem Demirors is the Managing Director at Digital Currency Group, which invests in (and advises) 100+ bitcoin and blockchain startups.

She is a member of the Global Future Council on Blockchain at the Davos World Economic Forum; building products CoinShares; investing, advising, lurking in trollbox; and is also an advisor and teacher at MIT and the University of Oxford.

Michiel Lescrauwaet

Managing Partner at Tioga Capital.