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Eric Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Crestal and was previously a Senior Software Engineer at Paradigm, Head of engineering at VIMworld, and Head of engineering at TRON.
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Ramu Arunachalam
Ramu Arunachalam is the General Partner at A.Capital. Ramu was most recently a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. A computer scientist by training, Ramu has over a decade of operating experience in product management and engineering at both startups and public companies. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Ramu led new product initiatives in Big Data for Aster Data (acquired by Teradata). Earlier in his career, Ramu was an engineer at VMware and part of the team that developed the industry’s first virtual switch for VMware’s flagship ESX server product line. Ramu holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with University Honors) from Carnegie Mellon University.
Sung Cho
Sung Cho is the co-founder and CEO of beoble , previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, and is a graduate of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Carnegie Mellon University.
Frank Ma
Frank Ma, co-founder and CEO of Ultiverse, graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2013 and worked at large tech companies in the Bay Area from 2013 to 2015.
Mind Apivessa
Mind Apivessa is the co-founder of Station Labs, previously held positions at Meta and IBM. He graduated from Cornell University in the United States.
Conner Symmetry
Conner Symmetry is the co-founder and CTO of Station, and previously he was a protocol architect at Syndicate. He graduated from Cornell University in the United States.
John Wu
John Wu is the President of Ava Labs, a technology company backed by Andresseen Horowitz that is building the next-generation blockchain platform: Avalanche. His mission is to make financial services and products accessible to everyone. He is using his experience of more than 20 years as a fintech executive and technology investor to create a blockchain-based solution for the origination, issuance, and trading of financial assets. Previously, John was the CEO of the SharesPost Digital Assets Group, which enabled compliant token trading of private shares and funds. Before that, he was a technology investor and the founder of Sureview Capital, a hedge fund supported by the Blackstone Group. John began his investment career at Tiger Management, a distinguished hedge fund that had $20 billion in assets under management at its peak. Afterwards, he managed a global technology portfolio at Kingdon Capital. John received his MBA from Harvard University and holds a BS in Economics from Cornell University.
NanFeng
Nanfeng is the Co-founder and CEO of Opside. He graduated from Tsinghua University and worked as a core developer for ByteDance, deeply participating in the underlying construction and later iterations of multiple projects.
Mike Jones
Mike Jones is a talent partner at Dragonfly, and previously she was head of technical recruiting at OKX. She graduated from Cornell University in the United States.
Gengmo Qi
Gengmo Qi is a partner at Dragonfly and was previously a researcher and engineer at Chainlink. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Chicago.
Alexa Beaver Smith
Alexa Smith is currently the Beacon Fund Manager at Polychain Capital, where she supports web3 founders and manages the Beacon Fund, which focuses on the Internet Computer ecosystem. Prior to this role, she was the Developer Partnerships Lead at DFINITY and held various other positions in the blockchain and chemical engineering industries. Alexa received her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and Spanish from Carnegie Mellon University.