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Spencer Yang

Founder at Hashtag Capital

Details

Spencer Yang is the CEO and co-founder of Gomu.co, an NFT infrastructure company with products such as NFT Hub, NFT APIs, and Collection.xyz. He is also the Venture Partner of Press Start Capital, a fund focused on Web3, gaming, and entertainment. Previously, Spencer worked on product at Coinbase, where he was responsible for retail derivatives, DEX, securities, and wallets. He also led growth, revenue, and operations at CoinMarketCap, and navigated the company's acquisition by Binance. Spencer has founded two companies that were acquired: Hashtag Capital and KeyReply. He is an angel investor and has a background in product management, growth, and operations.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Zaar Zaar
Seed -- $ 1.5 M
Apr 14, 2023
Nametag Nametag
Seed -- $ 2 M
Dec 14, 2022
WalletConnect WalletConnect
Series A -- $ 11 M
Mar 08, 2022

Relevance Person

Ron Bernstein

Ron Bernstein was CEO of Paradex before it was acquired by Coinbase. Fascinated with the convergence of the internet, peer-to-peer trading, sports betting and prediction markets, he founded Intrade in 2000, and Tradesports in 2003. Intrade went on become the world’s leading prediction marketplace until the platform's closure in 2015. Ron became fascinated by "Blockchain" in 2014 and became an advisor to Augur.net in 2015 (a prediction market protocol built on top of the Ethereum blockchain). Next steps were forming Augment Partners, a technology company working to build sound financial business models in the growing world of decentralized trading. The development of digital currencies, more blockchains and decentralized software systems continues to fuel his interest in trading, prediction markets, and token economies, and how they may be applied in the real world to benefit everyday life. AugmentPartners' first commercial product release was a peer to peer, non-custodial erc20 token exchange called Paradex .

Hish Bouabdallah

Hish Bouabdallah is the founder and CEO of Tribes Protocol, Inc. He is a graduate of Michigan State University with extensive experience leading development teams, developing iOS and Android apps, and working with blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. He has a proven track record of building complex, high-traffic, and high-performance applications, scaling databases, mobile apps, and backend services. His specialties include Swift, Kotlin, Objective-C, Java, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, Go, and Solidity.

Paul Delio

Paul Delio is the Head of Business Development at CARV and previously served as Business Development Manager at Pocketful of Quarters. He graduated from the University of Southern California.

Allen Ng

Allen Ng is the founder and CEO of EVG, and the co-founder of Kikitrade, a Crypto social investment platform.

Khurram Dara

Before joining Bain Capital Crypto, Khurram worked on the public policy team at Coinbase. A capital markets lawyer by training, Khurram has helped crypto projects navigate the legal and regulatory landscape since 2017, with a focus on tokens, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs. He was previously general counsel at Fluidity, the team behind AirSwap and prior to that practiced law at Orrick, where he worked with crypto projects as outside counsel. He began his legal career at Cahill Gordon & Reindel and is a graduate of Columbia Law School. Outside of work, Khurram enjoys playing soccer with friends and watching his beloved Buffalo Bills.

Christina Shu

Christina Shu is the Co founder of Arch Labs, a fintech company specializing in derivatives in the crypto market. Shu holds a degree from the University of Southern California.

Robbie Heeger

Robbie Heeger is President & CEO at Endaoment. Formerly, Manager - Production Operations, Technical Producer at Apple.

Alesia Haas

Alesia Haas is the Chief Financial Officer of Coinbase.

L.J. Brock

L.J. Brock is the Chief People Officer of Coinbase.

Paul Grewal

Paul Grewal is Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer.