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Dovey Wan is the Founding Partner of Primitive Ventures, a long-term focused cryptoasset investment fund which she co-founded with Eric Meltzer. Before Primitive Ventures, Dovey was the Managing Director of DHVC (formerly Danhua Capital). From 2012 to 2015, Dovey worked at eBay as a Data Engineer, Senior Business Analyst, and Product Manager. During this time, she was also the US Chief Representative for 36kr, a Chinese media, fundraising, and incubator company.
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Kefei Lin
Kefei Lin is the Technical Director at SBI Holdings. He graduated from Sun Yat-sen University
Belinda Zhou
Belinda Zhou is the Founding Partner at Sharding Capital. She graduated from Sun Yat-sen University and Cambridge University in the UK.
Eric Meltzer
Founding Partner of Primitive, an early-stage crypto asset fund. Formerly Venture Partner of INBlochchain. Peking University dropout.
Henry zhang
Henry zhang is the lnvestment Director at NGC Ventures.
Tony Lau
Tony Lau works as an investor at Primitive Ventures. Tony’s crypto journey began during his college years when he authored an Economics honors thesis assessing the impact of CBDC news on cryptocurrency markets. Before joining Primitive, Tony was a researcher at Fenbushi Capital, where he delved into areas such as DeFi, MEV, and infrastructure. His work included groundbreaking research on on-chain option protocols and the first systematic study on AMM designs that mitigate Losses-versus-Rebalancing (LVR).
Lian Zhu
Lian Zhu is the Co-founder and CEO of Aperture Finance, a DeFi platform for structured products. Prior to starting Aperture, he had served as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a Technical Program Manager at Netflix for 3 years respectively. Lian founded Internest Inc., a Natural Language Processing (NPL) focused startup that empowers multi-media marketing, localization, and publishing. He obtained his Executive MBA degree from UC Berkeley in 2022. An American Association of Chinese Writers member, he has published over 30 books, including the Chinese translation of Revival by Stephen King and the Diary of A Wimpy Kid series.
Rocky Yeoh
Rocky Yeoh is the Head of AI at Chainbase, an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University, and previously a senior research engineer at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a Bachelor's degree in computer Software Engineering from Sun Yat-sen University and a Doctor's degree in Computer and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University.
Portal Kay
Portal Kay is the Founder of GeoMarks, responsible for company strategy and product planning. An entrepreneur since 2015, successfully launched multiple online travel and gaming projects. Former Senior Product Manager at NetEase, and a graduate of Sun Yat-sen University.
Marco Manoppo
Marco Manoppo is an investor in Primitive Ventures and was previously Research Director and Team Leader at Digital Asset Research. He is a graduate of Purdue University and Canisius College.
Allen Day
Allen Day is a venture partner at Primitive Ventures and was previously head of the web3 team at Google and Chief scientist at MapR. He holds a PhD in human genetics from UCLA School of Medicine.