Metrika is a Cambridge, Massachusetts SaaS company that built the first operational intelligence and risk management platform for blockchains and digital assets. It collects, analyzes, and visualizes the health of decentralized networks in real time - tracking hundreds of risk indicators across protocols, smart contracts, and market conditions - so that protocol teams, financial institutions, and regulators can monitor performance, detect issues early, and meet compliance obligations.
Sentz (formerly MobileCoin) is a San Francisco-based fintech building a free, self-custodial mobile wallet that lets people send, save, receive and earn in stablecoins. Its dollar-pegged eUSD moves money across borders in seconds for a fraction of a cent, with end-to-end encryption and full user custody. Used in 180+ countries with deep traction in Nigeria, Sentz targets freelancers, remote workers and families sending remittances, and offers up to 8% yield through Sentz Earn.
Zubin Koticha is the CEO and cofounder of Raindrop, a San Francisco startup building observability and alerting for AI agents, often described as 'Sentry for AI.' Before Raindrop, he cofounded Opyn, the DeFi options platform that pioneered the power perpetual (Squeeth), crossed $15B+ in volume, and was acquired by Coinbase. A UC Berkeley alum who taught himself to code there, he pairs a fascination with esoteric financial derivatives with bachata, deadlifting, and obscure geography trivia.
Akash Sinha, who goes by 'Sky,' is a Web3 and DeFi commentator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He builds an audience on LinkedIn around Bitcoin, decentralized finance, and the Solana and Ethereum ecosystems, posting frequently from crypto conferences like Solana Breakpoint and Token2049 and weighing in on tech-policy moments such as the TikTok ban debate.
Lawrence Herman is the Chief Financial Officer and AI Strategy Leader at Cents, the all-in-one operating system for laundromats and dry cleaners. A payments and fintech finance veteran, he has steered the books at Dwolla, Accrete, and Paxful, and logged earlier stretches at Mastercard, American Express, Dataminr, EY, Citi, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs. Harvard-trained in economics, he is known for calm during industry cycles, a preacher's zeal for financial literacy, and a habit of walking into every meeting with three discussion points and three asks.
Sameer Shalaby is the Founder, President and Co-CEO of VersiFi, a New York digital-asset trading and lending firm that brings a TradFi-inspired, regulated approach to institutional crypto. A serial software entrepreneur with 25-plus years in financial technology, he has built and exited multiple companies - Paladyne Systems (acquired by Broadridge in 2011), Cogency Systems, and the publicly listed TenFold Corporation - and ran HazelTree Fund Services as President and CEO before launching VersiFi in 2022.
Juno (formerly OnJuno) is a crypto-friendly banking platform that lets users in the US hold cash and crypto in one account, receive paychecks in stablecoins, and on-ramp to 20+ blockchain networks without withdrawal holds. Founded by Varun Deshpande, Ratnesh Ray, and Siddharth Verma, the company raised an $18M Series A in 2022 led by ParaFi Capital.
Bernardo Garcia is the Co-Founder and COO of Félix Pago, a Miami-based fintech startup that lets Latino immigrants in the US send money home via WhatsApp in roughly 40 seconds. Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Garcia built his career across consulting and Uber before earning his MBA at Wharton, where he met co-founder Manuel Godoy. Together they launched Félix in 2020, growing it to process over $1 billion in remittances in 2024 and raising a $75 million Series B in April 2025 led by QED Investors.
Eliot Hodges is the CEO of Anduin Transactions, a Silicon Valley fintech company building critical infrastructure to modernize the $14 trillion private capital markets. A Harvard and Kellogg MBA graduate fluent in five languages, Hodges came up through Palantir, Blend, and Anchorage before being recruited by Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale to lead Anduin. Under his leadership, the platform has grown to serve 510+ funds and facilitate $55B+ in capital raises for 27,000+ investors globally.
Jacqueline 'Jackie' Reses is the Chair and CEO of Lead Bank, a Kansas City-based chartered bank she acquired in 2022 and transformed into a banking-as-a-service powerhouse serving fintech builders. Previously, she built Square Capital from zero into a multi-billion dollar lending business at Square (now Block), served as a board member at Alibaba through its historic 2014 IPO, led 41 transactions as Yahoo's Chief Development Officer, and spent seven years at Goldman Sachs in M&A. A Wharton-trained economist from Atlantic City, she co-authored 'Self-Made Boss' and holds patents in payments, credit, and cryptocurrency. Lead Bank closed a $70M Series B in September 2025 at a $1.47B valuation backed by a16z, Ribbit Capital, Coatue, and Khosla Ventures.
Manuel Godoy is the Co-Founder and CEO of Félix, a WhatsApp-native remittance platform that uses USDC stablecoins and AI to let Latino immigrants send money home in minutes for a fraction of traditional costs. Born in Venezuela and educated at Caltech and Wharton, Godoy turned his own immigrant experience into a company that has processed over $1 billion in remittances, serves 400,000+ active users across nine countries, and raised $90.5M including a $75M Series B in April 2025 led by QED Investors.
Ryan Breslow is the founder and CEO of Bolt, the one-click checkout company he built after dropping out of Stanford in 2014. Having once reached an $11 billion valuation and briefly becoming one of the world's youngest self-made billionaires, Breslow has led the company through a dramatic 97% valuation collapse and a gritty comeback - returning as CEO in 2025 in 'wartime' mode to rebuild Bolt as an AI-first payments SuperApp with roughly 100 employees.
River is a San Francisco-based, bitcoin-only financial services company offering brokerage, custody, mining, and Lightning Network infrastructure. Founded in 2019 by Alex Leishman and Andrew Benson, River serves individuals and businesses who want to buy, hold, earn yield on, and transact with bitcoin from a US-regulated, transparent, full-reserve institution.
Sardine is a San Francisco-based AI risk platform that helps banks, fintechs, and crypto companies stop fraud, automate compliance, and underwrite credit using device intelligence, behavior biometrics, machine learning, and a growing fleet of AI agents.
Soups Ranjan is the co-founder and CEO of Sardine, an agentic AI platform for financial crime prevention and AML compliance headquartered in San Francisco. With a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University and career stints at Coinbase (as Head of Risk) and Revolut (Head of Financial Crime), he channeled over 15 years of fraud-fighting expertise into Sardine, which has raised $145.6M and grown to 300+ enterprise customers. Sardine's behavioral biometrics and device intelligence platform now profiles 2.2+ billion devices, making it one of the most comprehensive financial crime databases in existence.
Raghav Gulati is a San Francisco-based technologist and executive who built CoinList into one of crypto's most recognized token launch platforms before transitioning to partner at Ravikant Capital. A University of Georgia mathematics graduate who cut his teeth as a software engineer at companies like Backplane and Shyp, Gulati rose through CoinList from engineer to CEO, helping orchestrate landmark token sales including Solana's early raise. His vision: make regulated token launches as accessible to 330 million Americans as equity markets, with Solana as the decentralized NASDAQ.
Will Warren co-founded 0x in October 2016 alongside Amir Bandeali, building the open protocol that became foundational DeFi infrastructure for peer-to-peer trading of Ethereum-based digital assets. A former applied physics researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory who left a PhD program in structural engineering to bet everything on Ethereum, Warren grew 0x from a whitepaper into a protocol powering billions in DEX volume and a developer platform serving the broadest ecosystem of DeFi apps, wallets, and market makers. In May 2026 he stepped down as Co-CEO while remaining a major shareholder and board member.
Stephen Findeisen, known online as Coffeezilla, is an American investigative YouTuber and crypto journalist who built a 4.5M+ subscriber audience by exposing pump-and-dump tokens, fake gurus, celebrity grift, and high-profile fraud cases including FTX, CryptoZoo, and Save the Kids.
Ashish Aggarwal is a General Partner at Chamaeleon, a San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm. He invests in seed and Series A consumer, vertical SaaS, AI, and crypto startups, drawing on 18+ years as an operator, two-time founder, and investor. A Kauffman Fellow (Class 24), he previously led investments at Grishin Robotics in companies like Ziva Dynamics (acquired by Unity), Taskade, ClubFeast, and Spin (acquired by Ford). Before VC, he ran M&A and corporate strategy at Opera Software, marketing analytics at Dell, and built ad infrastructure at Yahoo!.
Brent Fulfer is the Co-Founder and General Partner of TBV, an early-stage Web3 venture firm built around deal flow, advisory, and the now-infamous 'The Best Event' party series. He has helped raise over $110M for early-stage startups across deep tech and crypto, and previously ran investor relations at Asymmetry Ventures and the venture program at Blockchain Founders Fund.
Naval Ravikant is an Indian-born American entrepreneur, angel investor, and philosopher best known for co-founding AngelList, the platform that democratized startup fundraising. An early investor in Twitter, Uber, and over 200 companies, he is equally renowned for his unconventional wisdom on wealth, happiness, and meaning - distilled in 'The Almanack of Naval Ravikant' and a podcast followed by millions worldwide.
Dan Robinson is a General Partner and Head of Research at Paradigm, one of the most influential crypto venture firms in the world. A former litigation attorney turned protocol engineer, he co-authored 'Ethereum is a Dark Forest' - the paper that defined MEV for the industry - and played a central role in designing Uniswap V2 and V3. Robinson joined Paradigm in 2019 as its first Research Partner, was later promoted to General Partner, and has published foundational work on MEV taxes, Gradual Dutch Auctions, and prediction market AMMs. His rare combination of legal training and deep blockchain engineering makes him one of crypto's most distinctive voices at the intersection of mechanism design and decentralized finance.
Marcus Bartram is General Partner at Titanium Ventures (formerly Telstra Ventures), a $1B+ AUM San Francisco-based venture firm where he has led or co-invested in 25+ companies including CrowdStrike, Auth0, and Cohere. A founding team member with roots in Australian telecoms and managed security services, Marcus brings engineering credentials from the University of Adelaide and an Oxford MBA to a cybersecurity-first investment thesis sharpened over 15+ years in Silicon Valley. Titanium Ventures' proprietary Revenue Acceleration Platform has generated over A$1 billion in revenue for portfolio companies — a data-driven edge that sets it apart from conventional VC.
Jaypal Sethi is a General Partner on the Venture team at Tribe Capital, the data-driven Silicon Valley VC firm managing over $2.2 billion in assets. With more than 20 years in enterprise technology spanning VMware, MongoDB, Google, and Orbitera (acquired by Google), Sethi brings operator-grade pattern recognition to enterprise software investments. He sits on the boards of JupiterOne, Aether, and Tranzact, and serves as a board observer at Docker, Instabase, and LinearB.
Noah Knauf is a General Partner and co-founder at BOND Capital, the San Francisco-based growth-stage venture firm he helped launch in 2019 alongside Mary Meeker, Mood Rowghani, and Juliet de Baubigny after spinning out of Kleiner Perkins. With more than two decades in finance and private equity, he brings a rare combination of Bain consulting rigor, nine years deploying $1.8 billion at Warburg Pincus, and front-row experience at one of Silicon Valley's most storied VC firms. At BOND, he leads investments in high-growth technology companies with a particular focus on healthcare, fintech, gaming, and frontier technology, serving on the boards of AKASA, Saildrone, Sidecar Health, and Sunday.
Ramu Arunachalam is a General Partner at A.Capital Ventures, the San Francisco-based VC firm known for a founder-friendly approach and a portfolio spanning Notion, Anthropic, Databricks, Coinbase, and Replit. An engineer turned product manager turned investor, Ramu brings a rare depth of technical credibility to the table - he helped build VMware's first virtual switch, shaped a16z's Cloud and Big Data thesis during his time as Partner there, and now leads A.Capital's $180M Fund V with a focus on AI and crypto-native companies.
Roman Beloded is a General Partner at Yellow Rocks!, a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in fintech, edtech, gaming, AI, and web3 globally. A serial IT entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience, he co-founded e-Legion, one of the world's top mobile app development companies, and FitStars.ru, a fitness video platform with 1.8M YouTube subscribers. His investment thesis centers on backing globally ambitious founders from underserved markets at the pre-seed and seed stages.
Spencer Bogart is a General Partner at Blockchain Capital, one of the oldest and most active venture firms in the crypto industry. A CFA charter holder who started his crypto career writing Wall Street's first blockchain research report at Needham & Company, Bogart now leads research across Blockchain Capital's five funds and 85+ investments. Known on Twitter as @CremeDeLaCrypto, he made early bets on DeFi before the term existed and has been a consistent voice for Bitcoin fundamentals and crypto infrastructure since 2014.
Wei Zheng is the CEO and founder of Adot (a.xyz), a decentralized AI search network built for the Web3 era. A former founding member of Google's mobile search ads team, Wei brings 17-20 years of deep expertise in search engine technology and artificial intelligence to his mission of building a blockchain-powered alternative to Big Tech search. Since founding Adot in 2022, he has raised $6 million from top-tier Web3 investors including Hash Global, gumi Cryptos Capital, and Aptos, and grown the company to ~140 employees. Adot indexes both traditional web content and on-chain data — smart contracts, NFT metadata, decentralized storage — combining AI-powered relevance with a 'Search to Earn' model that gives users ownership of their search contributions.