Sachi Kamiya does Investments at Polygon, one of the leading scaling solutions for Ethereum. Prior to Polygon, Sachi worked in the traditional finance world. We talk about her journey to crypto, Polygon zkEVM, the Polygon Ecosystem Fund, learning early-stage investing and a lot more!

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Baek Kim is a General Partner at Hashed, a crypto-native VC focused on bridging the ecosystem in US and Asia. Prior to this Baek was a software engineer at AWS working on IoT and Robotics. He was also the founder of a last-mile logistics startup.

We talk about his entry into crypto VC, Hasheds’ thesis, crypto gaming, the Asian market and more!

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Jeff Weinstein is a Partner at FJ Labs, a global marketplace investor also investing in crypto and Web3. Jeff was previously a Senior Associate at Lux Capital.

We talk about his entry into VC, the FJ Labs thesis, why they are investing in crypto, problems marketplaces face and more!

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Regan Bozman is a General Partner at Lattice Capital, an early-stage crypto fund that helps founders build defensible moats. He previously led growth initiatives at a number of crypto projects including C.R.E.A.M., Index Coop, and Maple. Prior to that, he was the first employee at CoinList and managed $100M+ of token launches.

We talk about his journey from angel investing to a fund, state of the crypto VC market, valuations and more!

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Imran Khan is a Core Contributor and Pilot of AllianceDAO, previously known as DeFi Alliance, the leading accelerator program for crypto and web3 projects. Imran is also a Venture Partner at Volt Capital and was previously at Microsoft.

We talk about his journey to crypto, how DeFi Alliance formed, Alliance DAO, what he is excited about in crypto, incentives for teams and more.

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Dylan Olivia Hunzeker is the Head of Ventures at Advanced Blockchain AG, a publicly listed investor and incubator. Prior to this, she was an Investor at Struck Capital Crypto, also having worked at Iconic Holding and Eigen Capital.

We talk about her journey in crypto, her time in China, investing in crypto and more!

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Nick Grossman is a Partner at Union Square Ventures, a leading venture firm that has invested in companies like Twitter, Stripe, Coinbase and many more. Previously, he led an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data at OpenPlans.

We talk about his journey to VC and crypto, investing in collector DAOs, the future of VC, the USV anti-portfolio and more.

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Noah Gaynor is the Co-Founder of Parcel. Parcel is the “Zillow for the metaverse”, a metaverse-native platform building key infrastructure for the needs of virtual real estate users, builders, property managers, investors, developers, and service providers.

We talk about his journey from tradfi to crypto, Parcel, fundraising, the future of virtual real estate, Meta and more! 

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John Henderson is a Partner at AirTree Ventures, an Australia and NZ focused venture firm. Prior to AirTree, John was the Founding Principal of White Star Capital.

We talk about his journey to VC, investment biases, Olympus Finance, NFTs and more!

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Julia Lipton is the founder and GP of Awesome People Ventures, an early-stage fund focused on world positive investments. Prior to investing Julia led product and growth teams in Silicon Valley startups.

We talk about her journey to investing, investing in Web 3.0, investment DAOs, raising a fund and more!

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