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Kyle Samani is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital. In his current role, Samani helps to identify market opportunities, set the strategic direction for the firm, and collaborate closely with portfolio companies. Prior to Multicoin Capital, Samani co-founded Pristine, an enterprise software company that provides solutions for smart glasses to deskless workers. Based in Austin, Texas, Samani is widely acknowledged as a thought leader on blockchain and cryptoeconomics. He holds degrees in Finance and Management from NYU Stern and has been programming since he was ten years old.
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Tushar Jain
Tushar Jain is the Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital. He is responsible for portfolio construction, risk management, and overseeing the team. He is passionate about the new economic paradigm enabled by blockchain technology and focuses on decentralized financial products, token economics, and blockchain go-to-market strategies. Prior to joining Multicoin Capital, Tushar founded ePatientFinder, a health IT tech startup that raised more than $10M in VC and was later acquired by Elligo Health Research. He holds degrees in Finance and Political Science from NYU.
Brian Smith
Brian leads finance and operations for the firm. He specializes in deal structuring, due diligence, and legal and financial processes. Brian previously served as a public equity analyst at Tiger Management (where he helped launch a Tiger-seeded hedge fund), a private equity investor with Fox Paine & Co., an investment banker at Greenhill & Co., and he co-led finance at Bazaarvoice (BV) through the company's IPO.
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.
Josh Schwartz
Schwartz is the CEO of Fordefi and has prior experience as the COO of Curv, a crypto security provider which was acquired by Paypal in 2021. He was also previously the VP of Sales at BitGo and the Global Head of New Business Development at Bloomberg Tradebook.
Jeff Gluck
Jeff Gluck is the Co-Founder at Holograph.
Ye Zhang
Ye Zhang is the co-founder of Scroll. He holds an undergraduate degree from Peking University and has been working on ZK proofs since 2018. Previously, he mainly studied ZK proof hardware acceleration and ZK cryptography algorithm principles, and his Ph.D. is also in the ZK direction.
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.