Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Education
Lists including Ramnik
Investments
Martian
Total Funding: $12M
Coral
Total Funding: $22M
Tactic
Total Funding: $19M
Aptos
Total Funding: $350M
Drip
Total Funding: $23M
LayerZero Labs
Total Funding: $260M
Farmington State Bank
Total Funding: $12M
PlayUp
Total Funding: $35M
Paradigm
Total Funding: $240M
Coinfeeds
Total Funding: $2M
Work Experience
2024
Partner
2024
Original Capital is an early stage venture firm.
2020 - 2022
Head of Product
2020 - 2022
Created the exchange product + FTX raise capital from venture investors + led FTX Ventures for most of the period. FTX raised over $2B from top investors. FTX / Alameda Ventures invested over $3B in early and growth stage deals (incl. Solana, Anthropic, Mysten Labs and a host of others).
2015 - 2020
Product Manager Lead in Core Ads
2019 - 2020
Research Scientist, Libra (Blockchain)
2018 - 2019
Worked on the aligning stakeholders (validators, investors and users) incentives of the Libra ecosystem. Co-author of the Libra Blockchain whitepaper.
Data Science Manager
2015 - 2018
Managed a team of eight data scientists responsible for the Facebook ad auction system. The team helped create popular ad products and responsible for x% of revenue increase.
2013 - 2015
Investment Strategy Group, Investment Management Division
2013 - 2015
Co-Creator of Goldman Sachs Strategic Asset Allocation Fund (SFAFX:US on Bloomberg). It was akin to the Bridgewater's all-weather portfolio. The fund currently has AUM of ~ $1.5B
2012 - 2012
Quant Research/Trading
2012 - 2012
Member of four people automated statistical arbitrage group trading liquid US/Japan Equity. IV Capital had a dozen statistical arbitrage groups like ours and it shut down operations overnight in September 2012. Adrian / Stephen (the co-heads of my group) went on to start Seven Eight Capital.