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Ryan Gentry is Director of business development at Lightning Labs and former principal analyst at Multicoin Capital.
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Spencer Applebaum
Spencer Applebaum is the Investment Partner at Multicoin Capital. He was Multistate Tax Intern at Deloitte.
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.
Kyle Samani
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.
Daniel L.
Daniel A. Leonardo is a Chief Compliance Officer and Deputy General Counsel at Multicoin Capital. Prior to joining Multicoin, Leonardo was an attorney in the Division of Examinations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Matt Shapiro
Matt Shapiro is a Partner at Multicoin Capital, where he works closely with limited partners, generates investment ideas, and manages daily responsibilities of due diligence, strategy, and negotiations as a senior member of the investment team. Prior to joining Multicoin Capital, he served as a Vice President in the investment banking group at Teneo, specializing in raising institutional capital around specific investment theses, management teams, and assets across a range of industries. During his time at Teneo, he focused on constructing transactions that aligned the interests of disparate parties while maximizing returns for all stakeholders. His experience around incentive structures attracted him to the underlying mechanics of cryptoassets and how they enable various parties to trustlessly engage in diverse and complex transactions. Matt is based in New York City and holds a degree in Finance and International Business from the University of Maryland.
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.
Greg Xethalis
Greg Xethalis is General Counsel at Multicoin Capital. He was formerly a Partner at Chapman and Cutler LLP and Counsel at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP.
Mable Jiang
Mable Jiang is the Chief Revenue Officer at STEPN. She was previously a Partner at Multicoin Capital and a Corporate Strategy Manager at DiDi. Mable Jiang graduated from Columbia University.
Olaoluwa Osuntokun
Olaoluwa Osuntokun is the Chief Technology Officer at Lightning Labs, an open protocol that leverages blockchain to enable private transactions anywhere in the world. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. During his graduate studies, he focused on the field of applied cryptography, specifically encrypted search. Before becoming an active contributor to the Bitcoin open source ecosystem, he spent three consecutive summers as a Software Engineering Intern at Google.
John Robert Reed
John Robert Reed is the Partner at Multicoin Capital. At Multicoin, he oversees marketing strategy and corporate communications for the firm. Prior to Multicoin, he was a Senior Director at Jones-Dilworth, a boutique marketing consultancy. As a member of the founding team, he had the privilege of working closely with them for the better part of a decade.