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Richard Muirhead

Fabric.vc | Near.org

United Kingdom

VC
Investor

Invests in

Stages:

Series A
Seed

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Fundraising
Product Management
Product Development
Start-ups
Business Strategy
Enterprise Software
Mobile
Business Development
Entrepreneurship
Venture Capital
Cloud Computing
Go-to-market Strategy
Strategy
Mobile Applications
E-commerce
Angel Investing
Business Modeling
Product Marketing
Big Data
Private Equity

Education

Lists including Richard

AP
AO
AS
AN

Based in UK

1884 people

AT
AS
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AH

All Series A Investors

14752 people

AM
AT
AS
AR

All Seed Investors

19695 people

Investments

Addressable

Seed

Total Funding: $14M

Railsr

Seed

Total Funding: $140M

Bitrise

Series A

Total Funding: $83M

Orchid Labs

Seed

Total Funding: $5M

Outlyer

Series A

Total Funding: $5.5M

Pusher

Seed

Total Funding: $9M

Work Experience

FV
Fabric Ventures

2017

  • Co-founder, Chairman & Managing Partner

    2017

    Investing in and building technologies and applications in the decentralised, Web3 or OpenWeb arena. Our thesis centers on 'The Rise of the Open Economy' which constitutes a pendulum swing of power from institutions back to individuals and the potential to address many new information network challenges in healthcare, finance, education and work.

U
UCL

2022

  • Industrial Professor

    2022

    Teaching the module in 'Portfolio Management and Asset Allocation in Venture Capital' (with special attention to the impact of Web3), one of twelve modules in UCL's MSc in Venture Capital & Private Equity with Financial Technology. Class matters : r.muirhead [at] ucl.ac.uk

MW
Moralis Web3

2022

  • Director

    2022

NF
NEAR Foundation

2019

  • Co-founding Member of Council

    2019

    We are a non-profit foundation headquartered in Switzerland that is responsible for contracting protocol maintainers, funding ecosystem development, and shepherding core governance of the NEAR protocol (https://near.org/)

OP
Ocean Protocol

2017

  • Advisor

    2017

    Ocean Protocol is kickstarting a Data Economy by breaking down data silos and equalizing access to data for all.

C
Cronofy

2016

  • Member Board of Directors

    2016

F
Firestartr

2009

  • Co-founder, Chairman & Managing Partner; Partner

    2009

    UrbanMassage Pantera Bitstamp Cronofy BridgeU EsportsPools ClusterHQ Pusher Citymapper Evolven Radiant Minds (Atlassian) - July 13 Aug 14 Acunu (Apple) Rightster, now BraveBison [AIM] DuelRing Oriel Wines Oriel&Co Tixdaq / Fanatix RocketSportsNetwork Yoyo Wallet Mesosphere (Advisor - Special Projects) Honeybee (part of DixonsCarphone) Pantera Capital (LP & Venture Partner) Gojimo [Now: Daily Telegraph]

O
Orchid

2017 - 2023

  • Advisor to CEO

    2017 - 2023

    Orchid is a suite of open source tools and cryptographic protocols developed and run by people who want the internet to extend our natural human freedom, not curtail it. Our initial focus is an open marketplace for bandwidth built on Ethereum, and a VPN client for all major operating systems.

EP
EQT Partners

2012 - 2023

  • Senior Industrial Advisor

    2012 - 2023

    Sourcing, developing, securing new deals. Defining and executing on post-deal value creation at Board level.

B
Bitrise

2017 - 2019

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2017 - 2019

    Bitrise is making mobile app development a joyful and automated experience.