MJ

Maximillian Jungreis

Head of Crypto & Digital Assets at Plug and Play Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $30,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $114,000.00

Work Experience

  • Head of Crypto & Digital Assets

    2022

  • Crypto Lead

    2021 - 2022

  • Mentor

    2023

    Plug and Play x Madrid in Game

  • Partner

    2021

    Predictive supports domain expert founders building industry-defining platforms with a proprietary and scalable data advantage.

  • Advisor

    2021

    Head of Partnerships for Blockchain Labs (fka YosemiteX) one of Korea’s largest blockchain companies. Built the largest government use case of blockchain globally with over 42M users through our front-facing application, Coov.

2019 - 2021

  • Co-Founder at The Stanford Future of Digital Currency Initiative

    2019 - 2021

    Spent 2 years at Stanford University as a Founding Member of the Future of Digital Currency Initiative, a multidisciplinary research initiative, aimed at creating digital currency standards for CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies) at the School of Engineering, within the Center for Blockchain Research (CBR).

2017 - 2020

  • Head of Strategic Partnerships

    2017 - 2020

    • Lead the international expansion of Yosemite Enterprise Solutions through strategic partnerships and core business consulting spanning various industry verticals such as commodities-sourcing, capital management, supply-chain finance, and hardware technology procurement • Establish and maintain high-impact partnerships with APAC multinationals to assist in the co-development of Yosemite minimum viable products (MVP). Oversee all MVP quality-control protocols across both domestic and cross-border collaborations with engineering and PM teams • Co-founded Yosemite Card, a consumer-facing payment processing solution powered by Proof-of-Transaction, a blockchain consensus mechanism engineered by Yosemite X. Responsible for formulating Yosemite Card’s go-to-market strategy, establishing merchant/consumer partnerships and product use case across the Bay Area resulting in over 1000 card members and 80 merchant partners within the first month of roll-out

2016 - 2017

  • Investment Analyst

    2016 - 2017

    iFunding is a FinTech startup specialized in commercial real estate debt & equity crowdfunding. Through our investment platform, individual investors can make direct investments in pre-vetted institutional quality real estate assets. • Analyze and perform due diligence for the underwriting of real estate debt and equity investment proposals in conjunction with managing an existing $40M investment portfolio generating 12% to 20%+ annual yields on a variety of asset classes • Lead our China initiative by developing business partnerships with Chinese investment banks and hedge funds focused on investing in the US Commercial Real Estate market, targeting annual transaction volume of over $100M • Negotiate and manage non-performing and sub-performing investment positions, including Sponsor and Investor-facing communication while maintaining monthly and quarterly investor relation updates, including property & market updates, as well as responding to real-time investor and capital raising inquiries

  • Investment Banking Summer Analyst

    2015 - 2015

    • Worked on multiple sell-side M&A deal teams involving middle market healthcare service companies covering all phases in the transaction process (valuation, CIM, LOI and due diligence) • Led a small team in organizing and presenting statistical and operational data to build a Confidential Informational Memorandum (CIM) presentation for a multi-specialty medical group

  • Investment Analyst

    2014 - 2014

    • Collaborated with the Investment Committee of Shenzhen Capital Group, the largest domestic venture capital (VC) management company in China, as well as with senior Chinese executives in developing strategic growth objectives for diversified platform ventures • Evaluated, executed, and monitored expansion stage investments for the firm’s venture capital fund focused on traditional and high technology companies