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Travis is co-founder and Managing Partner at NIV. Prior to founding NIV, he led investments at Digital Currency Group from 2015-2019, during which time he invested in over 100 crypto startups and protocols across dozens of countries. Travis started his career as an M&A attorney at Skadden Arps. He holds a BBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School.
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Thomas Yao
Thomas Yao is a founding partner of IMO Ventures and Chief Business Officer of Zero Gravity. He holds a bachelor's degree in applied Physics from Fudan University.
Tarrence
Tarrence is the co-founder and CEO of Cartridge and the core developer of DoJo.
Vivian (Wei) Tao
Vivian (Wei) Tao is Head of Global Partnerships at Optimism and was previously a PrimeDAO contributor. She graduated from the University of Michigan.
James Hutchins
James is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at NIV. He leads the firm’s research efforts, and is passionate about leveraging data to uncover new trends, inform investment decisions, and support portfolio companies. James has been a full-time crypto investor since 2018, and was previously Head of Research at Coatue Management. He holds an AB in Economics from Harvard.
Christina Oshan
Christina Oshan is General counsel at Anagram and previously was co-founder and general counsel at Maul Media. She is a graduate of the University of Florida and Emory University School of Law.
Glenn Hutchins
Glenn is co-founder and Chairman at NIV. Previously, he co-founded the private equity firm Silver Lake. He is currently a director of AT&T, Co-Chair of the Brookings Institution, Chair of CARE, and Vice Chair of the Obama Foundation. He was a Director and Chair of Audit and Risk Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2011-2020. Glenn founded the Hutchins Family Foundation which has created the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University and the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at The Brookings Institution. He holds an AB from Harvard College, a JD from Harvard Law School, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Brian Tsang
Brian Tsang is the former Head of Product and data at Rarible, who has also been a product manager at Uber and a data analyst at LinkedIn. He graduated from the University of Michigan and Hopkins University.
Chuck
Chuck is a co-founder of VIP3 and previously worked as a product manager at Tencent Music Entertainment Group. He graduated from University of Michigan.
Milad Mostavi
Milad Mostavi is a software architect and the co-founder of BarnBridge. Milad has over 20 years of experience in the software industry and has worked with some of the biggest names in the business. Mostavi started their career as a software engineer at WebTailors, where they worked for 8 years and 5 months. Milad then moved to ConsenSys, where they worked for 5 years. In their current role, Mostavi is responsible for the architecture and development of BarnBridge's platform. Milad Mostavi attended the Universitatea „Politehnica” din București from 2004-2009. Milad then went on to study Python Programming at the University of Michigan.
David Silverman
David Silverman is the VP of Product at Polygon Labs.
