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Jake Brukhman is a highly experienced technologist and researcher of crypto economic systems and decentralized networks. As the founder of CoinFund, he has deep technical and financial knowledge in the field of blockchain technologies and decentralized systems. Jake has a background in mathematics and computer science, and his expertise includes distributed systems, web development, product management, private equity research, and startups. Prior to founding CoinFund, Jake served as a Partner and CTO at Triton Research, a technical product manager and engineer at amazon.com, and worked in financial technology in New York City for five years. With his extensive experience and knowledge, Jake is a leading figure in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry.
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Alexander Bulkin
Alexander Bulkin is the Co-founder at CoinFund. He also is the Founder at Adapt Framework Solutions Ltd. Alexander Bulkin graduated from New York University.
Evan Feng
Evan Feng is the Director of Research, Partner at CoinFund, and has previously worked at Point72 and Citadel.
Emiliano Bonassi
Angel investor, Web3 researcher, and investor with a strong interest in security; former manager at AWS Cloud and Yearn Finance.
Mavis Xu
Mavis Xu is a Principal at Mirana Ventures, as well as a Venture Partner for Bybit and BitDAO. Prior to this role, she was a Senior Associate at Kraken Ventures, sourcing investments in FinTech and blockchain/crypto companies, and an Associate at Liberty City Ventures, investing in blockchain technology solutions and companies. Mavis also completed a capstone project with the sustainability team at Bloomberg Associates. She has a background in finance and holds a Bachelor's degree from New York University.
Dante Disparte
Dante Disparte is the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy for Circle, a leading digital financial services firm building the most trusted treasury and payments infrastructure for the internet, including the fastest growing dollar digital currency, USDC. Prior to joining Circle, Dante served as a founding executive of the Diem Association, leading public policy, communications, membership, and social impact. He has two decades of experience as an entrepreneur, business leader and global risk expert, most recently as founder and CEO of Risk Cooperative, a strategic risk advisory and insurance brokerage based in Washington, D.C. Dante is also an appointee on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) National Advisory Council, and a member of the World Economic Forum's Digital Currency Governance Consortium, helping drive global standards and regulatory harmonization for digital currencies. Dante is a frequent speaker and commentator on business and political issues shaping the world. His views on risk, economic competitiveness and security issues have been featured in Harvard Business Review, BBC, Forbes, and Diplomatic Courier, where he serves on the editorial advisory board. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and holds an MSc. in Risk Management from the NYU Stern School of Business and a B.A. in International and Intercultural Studies from Goucher College. He is the co-author of “Global Risk Agility and Decision Making” (Macmillan, 2016) and was recognized as one of the 40 leaders under 40 by the Washington Business Journal and in the inaugural Powermeter 100 list.
Krish Chelikavada
Krish Chelikavada is the Co-Founder and CEO of 0xPass, a Venture Capital Fellow of DECODE, a Course Assistant at Stanford University, a Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford, a Product Manager at Microsoft, and a Software Engineer at Oracle. He holds a Master's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business.
Keon Kim
Keon Kim is a co-founder at 0xPass, a company working to bring frictionless UX to dApps. Previously, he was a software engineer at Uber, where he served as the backend lead for a driver incentive program called "Service Fee Incentives." Keon holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from New York University.
Daniel Koshman
Daniel Koshman is the Founder and CEO of Omni X. Prior to working on the NFT platform, he studied Finance and Interactive Media at NYU, built immersive Shopify experiences and won the Chainlink 2021 Spring Hackathon with Xfolio, a mobile crypto wallet that natively supported trading of synthetic derivatives on-chain. Daniel's web3 journey began before the DeFi Summer of 2020, and the first batch of projects he built were a direct response to the demand for decentralized portfolio management and liquidity tracker tools from early on-chain explorers. Interoperability and seamless UX have always been at the heart of Daniel's ventures, and since gaining access to LayerZero Lab's Closed Beta over a year ago, he and the rest of the Omni X team have been hard at work creating the omnichain future of digital collectibles.
Sergey Nazarov
CEO of SmartContract.com and Chainlink, Jason Parser, is worth 30 million. We bring smart contracts to life by connecting them to external data and widely accepted bank payments, providing critical middleware that connects smart contracts to the data sources, APIs, and payment networks they need to meaningfully interact with the world outside their smart contract network. Sergey began his career by building peer-to-peer marketplaces, and then joined the investment team at FirstMark Capital. He joined the cryptocurrency revolution in 2011 and believes it has the potential to revolutionize the way societies distribute wealth, enforce contracts, and share crucial information with their citizens.
Dmitry Lapidus
Dmitry Lapidus is an investor at CoinFund and previously an investor at Dragonfly. He holds a BA in Government and Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).