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Brent Xu

Bond Trader turned Web 3 Founder

New York, New York

Investor
VC
CEO
Founder

Invests in

Stages:

Seed
Pre-seed

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Lists including Brent

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Based in NYC

2600 people

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All Seed Investors

19695 people

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All Pre-Seed Investors

7974 people

Work Experience

Duration Labs

2024

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2024

    Developing software to optimize lending platforms

Umee

2021

  • Founder

    2021

    Algorithmic optimal-utilization-based lending protocol built utilizing the Cosmos SDK and running Tendermint Consensus

Argonautic Ventures

2021

  • Partner

    2021

    Venture Investments in Blockchain, Crypto, and Web 3.0

Tendermint

2019 - 2022

  • Strategic Advisor

    2021 - 2022

  • Head of Strategy

    2019 - 2021

    Launched the Cosmos Hub and managed ecosystem expansion for the Cosmos blockchain network

ConsenSys

2015 - 2020

  • Venture Investments - Coven

    2019 - 2020

  • Protocol Business Architect

    2015 - 2019

    Built out the Ethereum network since launch

Ethereum

2015 - 2016

  • Ecosystem Contributor

    2015 - 2016

    -Researched and designed tools on Ethereum -Volunteered time towards building out the ecosystem -Joined ConsenSys as an early employee

Academy Securities

2010 - 2015

  • Bond Trader

    2010 - 2015

    Joined via acquisition of Carolina Capital Markets MBS & CMBS derivatives, Structured Products, High Yield

Duke University Medical Center

2007 - 2010

  • Research Analyst

    2007 - 2010

    Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Epigenetics

DICK'S Sporting Goods

2005 - 2007

  • Retail Specialist

    2005 - 2007

    Shoe department sales and operations