NFT Heat

This week we feature Florcy Morisset the Co-Founder of Spooky Fresh which is an NFT startup venture whose vision is to develop a collaborative NFT ecosystem that allows collectors, brands, and mission driven organizations to create, collect and customize rare digital collectables while engaging in social impact initiatives.

This week we welcome Franky Nines,  a sensational artist and builder, who’s worked at the gaming giant Zynga, building Apps, and then started a VC backed company in L.A, in addition to working at Dapper Labs with NBA Top Shot. While at NFT42, he helped build NFTs for Snoop Dogg as well as working on VeeFriends with Gary Vaynerchuk. Franky then built and launched his company MegaVoltCorp, the incubator of SupDucks, one of the coolest NFT communities in the space.  

This week we feature Danny Casale, aka Coolman Coffeedan, a Los Angeles based NFT artist who has gained popularity through his surreal, humorous and crudely-drawn animations. He is the Founder of Coolman’s Universe, an NFT collection of 10,000 Speshies surfing through the Universe.  Danny was also just recognized in Forbes 30 under 30 and he just released a book called UR Special.  

This week we welcome Jayne Peressini, the VP of Growth at Dapper Labs.  

Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties, NBA Top Shot, and the Flow blockchain, uses blockchain technology to bring NFTs and new forms of digital engagement to fans around the world paving the way to a more open and inclusive digital world starting with games and entertainment. 

 Dapper Labs' current studio partners include the NBA, NBPA, WNBA, WNBPA, LaLiga, NFL, NFLPA, Warner Music Group, Ubisoft, Genies, and UFC. They have raised over $600M from leading and notable investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures (GV), Samsung, Reddit, and Coinbase among others. 

This week we feature JinJa Birkenbeuel the CEO of Birk Creative, one of the country's premier multichannel brand strategy, digital transformation and visual identity agencies. She is also founder of The Honest Field Guide podcast, where she hosts discussions dedicated to winning in business with Pulitzer Award winners, Oprah’s favorite successful entrepreneurs, Stanley Cup sports-team owners, and inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Birk Creative’s current client roster includes Facebook, Google, Advocate Health Care, CPASS Foundation and various amazing and vibrant mid-market business owners.

This week we feature Ashumi S, Founder and CEO of MAD XR which is an innovative, experiential, digital, creative production solutions partner to help brands and agencies create hyper real immersive content through AR, VR for the Metaverse and blockchain through NFTs for Fashion, Retail, Entertainment and Art.

This week we feature Lisa Mayer, the CEO of My Social Canvas and Co-Founder of Boss Beauties. For ten years, My Social Canvas has been providing mentorship and scholarships to the next generation of women. They have worked with mentors from Apple, Verizon, Google, and many inspiring women leaders ranging from Olympians, to fashion designers, to computer scientists, to CEOs. 

Boss Beauties is on a mission to remind women that they can be everything they want to be. In just a few months since our NFT launch, Boss Beauties has been featured on the Nasdaq Tower for International Day of the Girl. They are also the first NFT to be displayed at the New York Stock Exchange. This historic NFT is displayed across from the Muriel Siebert Board Room honoring the first woman to ever have a seat on the NYSE. This historic NFT was auctioned to fund scholarships for college women studying finance.

This week we feature Patrick White, the Co-founder and CEO of Bitwave, the world's first Enterprise Digital Assets Platform bringing cryptocurrencies, tokens, and other digital assets to the world’s largest companies. They help with accounting, taxes, AR / AP, secure DApps, and more. 

He was formerly the principal engineer and chief architect on Cisco Spark as well as the CEO of Synata, a San Francisco startup that provides enterprise search software to cloud-enabled businesses. 

 He has spent the last decade building software at companies such as Intuit, Microsoft, Ally Software, VistaConnect, S3/Diamond Multimedia, Fortify Software (now HP Security), and CyberArts. 

This week we are doubling the NFT Heat with two guests. 

First we have Kaimin Hu the Chief Business Officer at Bitmart which is a global leading crypto exchange platform. He is also a partner at Cipholio Ventures, an elite VC firm focused on many different sectors in the blockchain sphere. His specialties include DeFi, blockchain, fintech, payment gateway, assets management, and AI.

Joining Kaimin is Wesley Xia the BD Manager for Huobi Global Innovative Branch which is a global leading crypto exchange platform. He is also a contributor for HECO chain, a fast growing layer 1 public infrastructure. 

This week we feature Betty, the Founder of Deadfellaz and one of the top female thought leaders in the NFT space. 

Deadfellaz is an NFT collection of 10,000 unique zombies minted on the Ethereum blockchain. Deadfellaz sold out within 20 minutes of launch on September 13th, 2021, and traded over $9 million within its first month.  

Betty focuses on development, community engagement, brand outreach, marketing, innovation and experience design. 

Betty is also the Director of a creative production agency servicing AAA brands and corporations globally, and has worked in community engagement, marketing and creative production professionally for the last 11 years.