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Ben Davenport is CTO and co-founder at BitGo, the leading infrastructure company for Bitcoin and digital currencies. He is an active angel investor, having invested in 60+ companies. Previously, Ben co-founded Beluga, which was acquired by Facebook, and became the basis for Facebook Messenger.
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Mike Belshe
Mike Belshe is the co-founder and CEO of BitGo. He previously created the world's first multi-signature web wallet for Bitcoin, and was one of the top 10 engineers on the Google Chrome team.
Rachael Horwitz
Rachael Horwitz is the CMO of Haun Ventures, and she was the VP of Communications at Coinbase. Rachael Horowitz currently serves as the first-ever Spark Capital Marketing and Communications Partner. This role will put Horwitz at the head of the firm’s marketing and communications activities, along with community events and initiatives. Horwitz spent nearly five years at Twitter as Communications Director, and then took that experience to Facebook’s Communications department for another 15 months.
Benedict Chan
Benedict Chan is Vice President Of Engineering at Chainlink Labs. Formerly, CTO at BitGo. He enjoys thinking about BTC, ETH, the potential of smart contracts and DeFi. As CTO of BitGo, Ben Chan led the engineering team and is responsible for the company’s technological architecture and innovation. Ben began building Bitcoin and blockchain infrastructure projects in 2012, including wallet platforms, key management, early blockchain identity management, and machine to machine payments. With vast experience across blockchains and crypto technologies, Ben serves as the core driver for BitGo’s engineering initiatives. Prior to joining BitGo, Ben worked at Microsoft on the conversation understanding platform. Previous to his time at Microsoft, Ben was a partner and quantitative analyst for automated trading at Manticore Investment Group. He also worked as product manager at Zopim Communications and as an engineer at Vr-Zone. Ben holds a degree in computer science from the University of New South Wales.
Abhinav Vora
Abhinav Vora is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperline. He was previously the head of engineering at Lyft Pink and a software engineer at Meta and Microsoft. He graduated from RMIT University.
Arianna Simpson
Before she started investing, Arianna was a Product Manager at BitGo, where she was the third employee. Now, she works for Crystal Towers Capital or Autonomous Partners. I have spent my career in various areas of tech, including two early-stage startups, Facebook, and now venture capital. I developed a strong interest in cryptocurrencies about five years ago, which is when I started investing in Bitcoin. Before joining BitGo, I worked at Facebook in Global Marketing Solutions, based out of the New York office. I often speak about tech-related topics, particularly Bitcoin, and am a regular contributor to several publications. On those rare occasions when I'm not thinking about startups, Bitcoin, or some other tech-related topic, I enjoy skiing, riding my motorcycle, and travelling as much as possible.
Alex Shin
Alex Shin was previously a co-founder and partner at Hashed, and has also worked at Google and DocuSign.
Matt Nutt
Matt Nutt was previously COO and Head of Games at Mythical Games and COO at Fenix Games, and he also served as Director of business Development at Square Enix and co-product Manager at Microsoft. Matt Nutt has over 25 years of experience in the e-commerce and video games space. He graduated from the University of Washington.
Haichen Shen
Haichen Shen is the co-founder of Scroll and leads the engineering team. He is also an open-source enthusiast and has contributed to several open-source projects, including zkEVM, Apache TVM, and RAF. He studied at Tsinghua Yaoban for his undergraduate degree and received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His research focuses on the field of low-level systems. After graduating, he worked on building machine learning systems at Amazon.
Raymond Cheng
Raymond Cheng is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Oasis Labs, focusing on bringing privacy to people's lives through distributed systems, the internet, security, and privacy. His research interests are in distributed systems and security, with a focus on cloud security and privacy. He specializes in privacy-preserving systems that allow users to better control their data and propagate digital voice and information freely throughout the world.
Arran Schlosberg
Arran Schlosberg was the VP of Engineering at Proof Holdings. Presively, he worked at HealthMatch and Google. Arran Schlosberg graduated from University of Sydney and University of Cambridge.