Details
Dan Elitzer is co-founder at Nascent. Previously, Dan co-founded IDEO CoLab Ventures, a crypto-focused venture firm associated with the renowned design agency, IDEO. During that time, he also helped launch YAM Finance. Dan began his career in social enterprise and microfinance, working with both domestic social impact organizations and international development agencies. Dan earned an MBA from MIT Sloan, where he co-founded the MIT Bitcoin Club and MIT FinTech Club, and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Pomona College.
Work Experience
Education Experience
Investments
Related Figures

Alessandro Chiesa
Alessandro Chiesa is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at StarkWare, Associate Professor at EPFL .

Arun Devabhaktuni
Arun Devabhaktuni is a professional with a background in systems biology, physics, and biology. He is currently a Lead Researcher at Mirana Ventures and an Angel Investor at Valhalla Capital. He has also served as the Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of ZenMaid Software. Arun has received a PhD in Systems Biology from Stanford University School of Medicine and a BS in Physics and Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rodolfo Gonzalez
Rodolfo Gonzalez is the Partner of Foundation Capital. Rodolfo has an MBA from MIT Sloan’s School of Management, with concentrations in finance and entrepreneurship, and degrees in Marketing from ITESM and International Relations from UNAM Mexico.

Sam Fang
Sam Fang is the Chief Financial Officer at Blockstream and holds a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Josh Felker
Josh Felker is co-founder of Nascent. Previously, he founded Vigilant Global Trading in Montreal, which was acquired by DRW Trading in 2012, where he spent five years as a partner overseeing liquidity provision, risk/directional trading, venture capital, cryptocurrency trading, and more. Josh holds a Bachelor's degree in Genetics from Western University.

Theresa Regenstreif
Theresa Regenstreif leads Finance, Operations, and People at Nascent. Previously, Theresa was Head of Finance at an early stage Fintech company that was acquired, with a VC who built and invested in early stage consumer facing Fintech companies, and worked with an impact investor seeding early stage agribusinesses in sub-Saharan Africa. Theresa holds a graduate degree in Accountancy from John Molson School of Business, Concordia University.

Theo Diamandis
Theo Diamandis is currently the Research Partner at Bain Capital Crypto. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University.

Pierre Samaties
Pierre Samaties is Chief Business Officer at DFINITY. He was the former Partner at Roland Berger leading the Global Digital Assets, Web3 and Metaverse practice and the CEO of energy and innovation specialist RWE Middle East.

Justin Jow
Justin Jow is Vice President of Finance at Scale AI and previously was Vice President of Finance at OpenSea. He has worked at Uber and Google. He graduated from Harvard University and MIT-Sloan School.

Jean Beaudoin
Jean Beaudoin is the former founder and CEO of Metya. He is a graduate of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.