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Trinito is a trading investment company focusing on digital assets. Our trading strategy seeks opportunities with a risk-adjusted approach driven by market inefficiencies.

Our mid to long term investment will focus on supporting cryptocurrencies, protocols and new assets which aim to change our lives using blockchain technology.

Divine Protocol

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Pow.re

Prysmatic Labs is a team of blockchain engineers committed to scaling Ethereum. We are implementing a sharding client for Ethereum 2.0. Currently, blockchains do not scale. With Ethereum receiving over a million transactions per day, the network is desperate for a solution that will help sustain its massive growth and adoption. We are building out a full featured sharding client, allowing the system to process transactions at over 10x - 100x of its current speed!

Prysmatic Labs

Benchmark is an early stage venture capital firm focused on social, mobile, local and cloud companies.  We believe that great entrepreneurs change the world for the better. Since its founding in 1995, Benchmark has invested in more than 250 early stage startups with a market value exceeding $100 billion.  Investments have included eBay, Juniper Networks, MySQL, OpenTable, Yelp, Inc., Zillow, Friendster, JAMDAT, Instagram, Hortonworks, Dropbox, Uber, Twitter, Zipcar, Asana, Quora, Gaikai, Demandforce and DOMO.  Benchmark has offices in Menlo Park and San Francisco, California.

Benchmark

Spark Capital takes risks on exceptional founders and the products they design. We believe the world can never get enough magical products and experiences. Making them requires a balance of art and technology, as well as a maniacal focus on delivering joy to the people who use them. We believe amazing products can create markets, not just find market fit. The people who make those products are creative, high-energy and are more often than not on a mission. They are technologists with the heart of an artist. Spark partners with visionary entrepreneurs who are driven to move people with the products and experiences they create. We invest in companies at all stages of their life cycle. Our most recent funds include a $400 million early-stage venture fund and a $600 million venture growth fund. In total we have $3 billion under management. We have offices in San Francisco, Boston and New York.

Spark Capital

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

a16z crypto is a $300M venture fund that will invest in crypto companies and protocols. Our fund is designed to include the best features of traditional venture capital, updated to the modern crypto world:

We are long-term, patient investors. We’ve been investing in crypto assets for 5+ years. We’ve never sold any of those investments, and don’t plan to any time soon. We structured the a16z crypto fund to be able to hold investments for 10+ years.

We have an “all weather” fund. We plan to invest consistently over time, regardless of market conditions. If there is another “crypto winter,” we’ll keep investing aggressively.

We provide operational support to entrepreneurs. Our crypto investments have access to the same 80+ person a16z operating teams as do our non-crypto investments. Our operating teams have deep expertise in executive and technical recruiting, regulatory affairs, communications and marketing, and general startup management. We are responsible participants in the governance of companies and the governance of networks.

We are flexible with respect to stage, asset type, and geography. One reason we created a new fund is to have maximum flexibility. We invest at all stages, from early stage projects to fully developed later-stage networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum. We’ll invest in traditional financial instruments like equity or convertible notes, and new instruments including the direct purchase of coins/tokens. Crypto is a global phenomenon, with great projects all around the world, and we’ll invest accordingly.

We are focused on non-speculative use cases. We want services powered by crypto protocols to be used by hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people. Crypto tokens are the native asset class of digital networks, but their value is driven by the underlying, practical uses cases.

a16z crypto

PARADIGM, a cryptocurrency hedge fund founded by Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam, former Sequoia Capital partner Matt Huang, and Pantera Capital veteran Charles Noyes. Yale’s endowment is the second-largest in higher education and is run by David Swenson, a world-class investment manager that began Yale’s endowment with a “meager” $1 billion.

PARADIGM

Dragonfly is crypto-natives who have been investing and building for 10+ years. Founded in 2018, Dragonfly brings access and influence to help crypto teams with global aspirations find innovation and adoption anywhere.

Managed by experienced VCs from the U.S. and Asia, Dragonfly brings together the leading participants in the decentralized economy. Our global ecosystem enables us to invest in and support the most promising opportunities in the cryptoasset class.

Dragonfly

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

Galaxy (TSX: GLXY) is a digital asset and blockchain leader providing institutions, startups, and qualified individuals access to the crypto economy. Our full suite of financial services is custom-made for a digitally native ecosystem, spanning multiple synergistic business lines: Trading, Asset Management, Investment Banking, Mining, and Ventures.

Galaxy's CEO and Founder Michael Novogratz leads a team of crypto enthusiasts and institutional veterans working together on a mission to engineer a new economic paradigm. The Company is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Chicago, New Jersey, London, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and the Cayman Islands (reg. office).

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