YEBO is a Los Angeles Web3 company building no-code tools that let brands and creators design 3D virtual stores and launch interoperable NFT rewards and loyalty programs. Its stated mission is to bring people into Web3 by letting them create their own digital assets - buildings, stores, products - that can move freely from one Web3 environment to another. Founded in 2013 and later repositioned around blockchain rewards, YEBO is led by serial entrepreneur and Bitvore co-founder David Mandel.
Will O'Brien is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and the CEO and co-founder of NFT Oasis, the metaverse platform owned and operated by Provenonce, Inc. A blockchain and gaming veteran, he co-founded and led Bitcoin security pioneer BitGo (later acquired by Galaxy Digital for $1.2B) and was named Bitcoin industry 'CEO of the Year' in 2014. Before that he ran corporate development at Big Fish Games and held operating roles at Keen IO and TrialPay. He has backed 70-plus early-stage startups, holds a Harvard computer science degree and an MIT Sloan MBA, and moonlights as an improvisational pianist.
Alex Atallah is the CEO and co-founder of OpenRouter, the unified API and marketplace that routes developer requests across hundreds of large language models. He previously co-founded OpenSea, the NFT marketplace, where he was CTO before leaving in 2022 to build from zero to one again. A Stanford computer scientist and Palantir alum, he turned a side project that connected browsers to AI models into infrastructure now routing roughly 25 trillion tokens a week, and raised a $113M Series B in 2026.
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.
Gagan Palrecha is a seasoned technology entrepreneur, executive, and investor with over two decades of experience spanning early internet infrastructure, consumer tech, blockchain, and fiber optic networking. Currently CEO of Stealth, a Los Angeles-based fiber internet provider that has raised $22.8M in funding, Gagan has held senior roles at Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot), Getaround, and NFTSTAR, while also serving as COO at RLY Network Association. A Y Combinator alumnus (2010) and General Partner at Palrecha Capital with 36+ portfolio companies, he brings an engineering foundation from Loudcloud - the legendary cloud infrastructure startup co-founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz - to every venture he touches.
Joe Ruiz is the CEO and Founder of DPS (Digital Postal Service), an AI-driven blockchain-based communications company that has certified over 3 million documents across U.S. courts and pioneered the first blockchain-generated ePostage certified by USPS. A descendant of Declaration of Independence signer John Hart, Ruiz has spent a decade bridging traditional postal infrastructure with Web3 technology - building CaseMail, integrating NFT Digital Stamps into USPS Connect eCommerce, and expanding his certified AI email platform to Microsoft's Azure Marketplace.
Thanh Tran is Co-CEO of A5 Labs, a Foster City-based AI company building game integrity infrastructure for competitive online gaming. With a PhD in Computer Science from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and a background scaling Upwork's data science team through its IPO, he now leads a 180-person team applying deep reinforcement learning, blockchain reputation systems, and real-time behavioral analytics to eliminate bots, collusion, and cheating from online poker and beyond.
Shamal Ranasinghe is the Chief Business Officer at Audius, the decentralized blockchain-based music streaming platform. A 25-year music-tech veteran, he co-founded Topspin Media in 2007 - one of the first direct-to-fan platforms for musicians - before spending eight years as VP of Product at Pandora/SiriusXM building creator tools. At Audius, he leads major label and publishing deals, including a landmark global licensing agreement with Kobalt Music in 2024, while championing a world where artists own their music, keep 90% of revenue, and connect directly with fans without gatekeepers.
Carra Wu is a Partner on the a16z crypto investment team, where she leads investments in gaming, media, consumer, and infrastructure. She became the youngest check signer in the firm's history at age 23, ascending from intern to deal partner in under a year - a trajectory that started with a six-sentence cold email to Arianna Simpson. A Harvard applied math dropout fluent in three languages, former HoloLens AR/VR engineer at Microsoft, and one-time ballet dancer, Wu brings a builder's instincts to some of crypto's biggest bets, including Axie Infinity, Friends With Benefits, Yield Guild Games, Story Protocol, and CCP Games.
Chris Lyons is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), the legendary Silicon Valley venture capital firm, where he spent over a decade reshaping how culture and capital intersect. Starting as Chief of Staff to co-founder Ben Horowitz in 2013, he rose to General Partner by 2021 and founded the Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) in 2018 - Silicon Valley's first VC fund composed entirely of Black Limited Partners, uniting athletes, musicians, and entertainers as investors in frontier technology. A former sound engineer trained under Grammy-winning producer Jermaine Dupri, Lyons brings a rare cross-industry fluency to tech investing, bridging entertainment, sports, Web3, and enterprise software. As of early 2026, he announced his departure from a16z to launch his own fund, citing the AI revolution as the defining moment to build independently.
Sungmo Park is Partner and Head of APAC Go-to-Market at a16z crypto, leading Andreessen Horowitz's first Asian office in Seoul. A quadrilingual strategist who speaks Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and English, Park bridges the gap between Silicon Valley capital and Asia's most dynamic crypto ecosystems. His career spans traditional finance at Nomura, product at NAVER, co-founding OnePlanet (a Polygon-based NFT marketplace backed by Hashed and Animoca Brands), leading APAC business development at Polygon Labs, and serving as APAC Lead at Monad Foundation before joining a16z to anchor its Korea, Singapore, and Japan expansion.
Rachel Soper Sanders is a Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures and the CEO and co-founder of Rootine, a precision nutrition company that personalizes cellular health through DNA analysis and biometric data. A Harvard Business School MBA and former healthcare investment banker at Raymond James who worked on $5B+ in M&A deals, she pivoted from Wall Street to wellness after personally battling burnout and fatigue. She co-founded Rootine in 2018 with Dr. Daniel Wallerstorfer, raised a $3M seed round and a $10M Series A, launched the Apex Optimizers NFT project bridging web3 and health optimization, and hosts the Smart Health with Rachel Sanders podcast. She brings over a decade of health-tech experience across investment banking, product strategy, and company building to her venture investing role.
Justin Kan is a serial entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder of Twitch, the live streaming platform acquired by Amazon for $970 million in 2014. A Yale graduate who studied physics and philosophy, Kan pioneered lifecasting by wearing a camera 24/7 for Justin.tv in 2007, which evolved into Twitch and revolutionized gaming culture. He's launched multiple ventures including Socialcam (sold to Autodesk for $60M), served as a Y Combinator partner, and now invests through Goat Capital while building new companies in Web3, commerce, and music. Despite selling Twitch for nearly $1 billion, Kan has been candid about struggles with happiness, anxiety, and finding fulfillment beyond exits, making him a rare voice of authenticity in Silicon Valley's success-obsessed culture.
Yossi Hasson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metaversal, a Web3-native merchant bank specializing in NFT curation and digital IP, and a Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures. A serial entrepreneur who started his first company at 17, Yossi co-founded SYNAQ (acquired by Dimension Data), WeThinkCode_ (Africa's largest coding academy), and served as Managing Director of Techstars Africa. With 20+ years in tech, he's invested in over 60 startups and crypto protocols, acquired 2,000+ NFTs across 250+ projects, and raised $50M for Metaversal. A Stanford GSB graduate, he splits his time between New York and Miami, hosting podcasts and lecturing on entrepreneurship while building at the intersection of AI, Web3, and digital culture.
Vietnamese developer and entrepreneur Trung Nguyen is the CEO and co-founder of Sky Mavis, the studio behind Axie Infinity, the blockchain game that turned NFT pets into a global play-to-earn phenomenon. He previously co-founded Lozi and worked at Anduin Transactions before betting on CryptoKitties-inspired game design in 2017.
Wylie Aronow, better known online as Gordon Goner, is the co-founder of Yuga Labs and the creative force behind Bored Ape Yacht Club, the NFT collection that became a $4 billion cultural phenomenon. A former MFA dropout who spent most of his twenties bedridden with chronic colitis, he co-created BAYC in 2021 with three friends after asking 'What the fuck is an NFT?' - and within months built one of the most influential brands in crypto history. After stepping back from Yuga Labs in early 2023 following a congestive heart failure diagnosis, he remains a board member and strategic advisor while focusing on recovery.
Guy Oseary is an Israeli-American music manager, venture capitalist, and entrepreneur who has guided Madonna's career since 1992 and co-founded Sound Ventures with Ashton Kutcher - a $1B+ VC firm with early bets on Airbnb, Uber, Spotify, and now OpenAI and Anthropic. Once the teenage chairman of Madonna's Maverick Records who signed Alanis Morissette, Oseary has quietly become one of entertainment's most consequential dealmakers - turning a free internship offer into three decades of industry-defining moves at the intersection of music, tech, and culture.
Kathleen Breitman is the co-founder and CEO of Dynamic Ledger Solutions, the company behind Tezos — the self-amending blockchain that raised $232 million in a 2017 ICO, then the largest in history. A Cornell-educated economist turned crypto builder, Breitman navigated one of the most turbulent governance crises in blockchain history to deliver a live, functioning network. Known for her blunt wit, anti-hype stance, and combative advocacy during the Tezos legal battles, she has become a defining voice in the 'build it or shut up' wing of the crypto world. She is currently building Coase, a software company focused on reducing transaction costs, while serving as a venture partner at Social Impact Capital and writing pointed op-eds for Fortune about crypto culture, women in tech, and the industry's credibility problem.
Kevin Lin is a Taiwanese-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of Twitch.tv — the live-streaming platform acquired by Amazon for ~$970 million in 2014. Serving as COO for 12.5 years, he helped grow Twitch to 90%+ market share, $1.5B annual revenue, and 2,000+ employees. After departing in 2020, he co-founded Metatheory (a Web3 gaming company backed by a16z), launched Lifelike Capital (an early-stage VC fund), and co-created the Ikigai Launchpad accelerator in Taipei — all while staying deeply rooted in his Taiwanese heritage and AAPI community through Gold House.
Linda Xie is a crypto investor, founder, and ecosystem builder who co-founded Scalar Capital in 2017 after serving as an early product manager at Coinbase. She raised a $20 million fund backed by Chris Dixon and Fred Ehrsam, championed privacy-focused blockchain projects, co-produced the Ethereum documentary 'Ethereum: The Infinite Garden,' and now leads developer ecosystem growth at Farcaster - a decentralized social protocol she first used as a user in 2021, invested in as a VC in 2022, built on in 2023, and officially joined the team in 2025.
Gary Vaynerchuk, known as GaryVee, is a Belarusian-American serial entrepreneur, CEO of VaynerMedia, Chairman of VaynerX, and founder of VeeFriends. He grew his family's $3M liquor store into a $60M e-commerce empire before building one of the most influential digital marketing agencies in the world. With 38+ million social media followers, 8 bestselling books, early angel investments in Facebook, Twitter, Uber, Venmo, and Coinbase, and a relentless content machine that runs 365 days a year, Gary Vee is one of the most recognizable voices in entrepreneurship, brand-building, and the creator economy.
Jack Butcher is a British-born graphic designer and entrepreneur who turned a $58 bank balance into a $1M+ annual business by packaging visual thinking into a personal media brand called Visualize Value. A former advertising creative director for Bloomberg and SapientNitro, he left agency life in 2018 to build a one-person empire of minimalist black-and-white visuals that distill complex business and life concepts into a single image. His signature framework, 'Build Once, Sell Twice,' made productizing expertise into digital products a mainstream creator strategy. He extended this philosophy into the NFT space, launching Checks VV (which surpassed Bored Ape Yacht Club in daily trading volume) and Opepen Edition (with $240M+ in total trading volume), earning exhibitions at Christie's, Sotheby's, and Art Basel.
Ronen Kirsh is an Israeli-born entrepreneur and blockchain investor at the intersection of Web3 gaming and venture capital. He co-founded Blockchain at Berkeley (2016), one of the largest university blockchain organizations in the US, then launched Dekrypt Capital with a $20M fund. He is a co-founder of Game7 (G7_DAO), which controls a $500M treasury and deployed $100M in grants to accelerate Web3 gaming, and serves as Strategic Partnerships lead at Forte. A former IDF Special Forces sergeant, he brings military discipline to the chaotic frontier of decentralized gaming.
Todd Goldberg is a San Francisco-based tech entrepreneur, angel investor, and art collector who sold his event ticketing startup Eventjoy (YC W14) to Ticketmaster in 2014, then co-founded Todd & Rahul Capital with Superhuman's Rahul Vohra - deploying $50M+ across 120+ startups including Mercury, Superhuman, Clearbit, and Supabase. He also co-founded Curated, a $30M+ NFT art fund backed by Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon, and continues to ship indie products like Mailjoy, a bootstrapped direct mail platform.
Laura Shin is the leading voice in crypto journalism - host of the Unchained podcast, author of The Cryptopians, and founder of Unchained Crypto. A Stanford and Columbia-educated journalist, she was the first mainstream reporter to cover cryptocurrency full-time, amassing 25+ million downloads and solving one of crypto's biggest mysteries: the 2016 Ethereum DAO hack.