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Piers Kicks is Partner, Head of Gaming at Delphi Digital. Exploring the emergence of the Metaverse through the lens of decentralized networks. Piers acquired his first bitcoin at 13 years old in exchange for virtual currency in a video game. After reaching 69 global in Rainbow Six Siege (over 50 million players), building his own RSPS, being a first generation virtual reality user, and growing up with crypto, he leverages his unique insight into the undercurrents of the web to cross the digital divide. Computer science and philosophy background, entrepreneurial with a global digital asset network. Hunting asymmetric crypto/venture investment opportunities in early stage projects that seek to advance and support the decentralized dream.
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Alex Gedevani
Alex Gedevani is Investment Associate at Sfermion. Formerly Research Associate at Delphi Digital, Financial Analyst at Barclays, Community Analyst at Messari.
Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly is the co-founder of Delphi Digital, and previously worked as a stock analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. He has a background in traditional equity research and provided insights into global equity markets for numerous institutional clients before serving as a US equity strategist. He has extensive experience in market data analysis and research and is frequently quoted or involved in discussions by financial news media. Currently, he is committed to improving institutional understanding of the cryptocurrency field and its allocation benefits in today's unique investment environment.
Matt Bridges
Matt Bridges was Chief Operating Officer at Flipside Crypto, a talented technologist and leader. He currently serves as COO at Flipside Crypto. Previously, as CTO of Intrepid, he grew a small boutique agency into the largest mobile development team in Boston. He is an accomplished entrepreneur, with a track record of successful products including Timbre, the live music discovery app. Prior to Intrepid, he spent more than a decade working with Ray Kurzweil to develop industry leading pattern recognition technology for NLP, image processing, and quantitative finance. I love software. I lead teams that build amazing products. I didn't get my first taste of product development until almost a decade into my career, tasked with turning experimental technology into a consumer product. I realized two things: 1) Consumer software is challenging, frustrating, and unpredictable and 2) I LOVE it.
Jens Hilgers
Jens is a Founding General Partner of BITKRAFT Ventures, a global early- and mid-stage investment platform for gaming, esports, and interactive media, which he started in 2015. Under his leadership, the firm has built a portfolio spanning more than 50 companies across North America, Europe, and Asia. BITKRAFT launched its inaugural $18M Pre-Seed Fund in 2017, and in 2020 raised a $165M Venture Fund I, featuring LPs including the family offices and investment firms of Bruce Karsh, David M. Rubenstein, and Jonathan Soros. Jens is also Co-Founder and Chairman of esports team G2 Esports, one of the world’s most valuable esports organizations. Widely considered one of esports’ first entrepreneurs, Jens launched his first esports online platform gamers.de in 1997, which he sold in 1999. In 2000, Jens founded ESL and grew the company into the world's most prestigious esports brand during his ten-year tenure as CEO. In 2015, international entertainment company MTG acquired a majority stake in ESL, marking the first acquisition of an esports company by a traditional media organization.
Malte Barth
Malte is a Founding General Partner of BITKRAFT Ventures based in London and Lisbon. Since 2014 he served as Head of Esports at Modern Times Group, which holds one of the largest esports portfolios globally with leading brands like ESL, DreamHack, ESEA, and others. He holds Board roles at ESL and DreamHack and since 2010, serves as an Industrial Advisor to EQT, a leading global private equity firm.Malte graduated in Industrial Engineering and Business Management from Nordakademie and is active as an entrepreneurial leader, investor and operator in the media, games and esports space for over 20 years.
Praveen Lulla
Praveen Lulla is the Chief Financial Officer of Delphi Digital. He received his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Certificate from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants in 1989.
Scott Rupp
Scott is a Founding General Partner of BITKRAFT Ventures based in Denver. An interactive entertainment entrepreneur, investor, and operating executive for over 20 years, Scott served as USA Managing Director for Modern Times Group, a global leader in games and esports, where he led their venture capital fund and U.S. expansion.Scott held co-founder and CEO roles at influencer marketing and digital content companies Digital Artists and Icebox and was an early leader in the U.S. online games industry as SVP of Corporate Development for Gazillion.He advised the world’s leading entertainment companies on the games industry while at McKinsey, and previously served at Deutsche Bank and Carlyle Group. He has an MBA from Kellogg and an MPA from Harvard.
Ayush Menon
Ayush Menon is the Founder and CEO of Katana. He was previously a Software Engineer at Delphi Digital, and he graduated from Harvard University.
Dennis "Thresh" Fong
Dennis "Thresh" Fong is the Co-Founder & CEO at Forge & GGWP. Serial entrepreneur in gaming. Founded companies like Xfire, Raptr, Plays.tv, and is the FPS pro gamer known as Thresh.
Luke Saunders
Luke Saunders is CTO at Delphi Digital. He is responsible for all technical matters within the Delphi Digital team. His work involves identifying and implementing technical initiatives that contribute to the company's long-term goals and maximize value for the company's subscribers. These initiatives include data collection and analysis, the creation of dashboards to track key metrics, and supplementing the company's research with live data feeds and automation. During his 20-year career as a software developer, Luke has been involved with many tech and web startups, including being part of the founding team and lead developer of a project that scaled to over 3 million unique visitors per day and achieved a successful eight-figure exit. His interest in open source development led him to become a member of the core team of one of the leading (at the time) web frameworks. He also co-founded AmaZix, one of the premier crypto community management and advisory firms, which at its peak had over 150 staff and generated over seven figures in monthly revenue. Luke holds a degree in Computing and a Master's (Distinction) in Artificial Intelligence. With his broad background in business, technology, and token design, Luke bridges theory and practical implementation.
