Meltem Demirors

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Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, the digital asset manager. She is also a cryptocurrency investor, advisor, and advocate, with a unique blend of experience in both legacy and blockchain-based finance and cryptocurrencies. At CoinShares, Ms. Demirors builds asset management products to provide institutional investors with exposure to crypto assets and blockchain companies. Prior to this, she held a senior strategic and investing role at Digital Currency Group.

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CoinShares

Chief Strategy Officer

Investments

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Meson Network

Efficient bandwidth marketplace on Web3

Open Custody Protocol

Modular custody solution

Acquired

Hashflow

Decentralized Trading Platform

Polymarket

An unbiased, real-time prediction market

Movement

A Network of Modular Move-Based Blockchains

MyShell

Decentralized AI consumer layer

Synternet

Providing next-generation connectivity technology for the Internet

Eclipse

Customizable, modular rollups

Root Protocol

Decentralized Identity and Credit Network

Ingonyama

Zero Knowledge ASICs

Flowdesk

Crypto-financial service company

RISC Zero

Next generation scalable blockchain

Swaap

Market Neutral AMM

Zebec Protocol

Real-time streaming payment protocol

Astaria

NFT lending platform

PartyDAO

Decentralized NFT Bidding Organization

Syndicate

Decentralized investment protocol and social network

UpShot

Decentralized AI platform

Ceramic Network

The Composable Data Network

Casa

Bitcoin wallet to improve security and privacy

MUX Protocol

Decentralized leveraged trading protocol

Bluefin

Decentralized perpetual contract protocol

XMTP

The communication protocol and network for Web3 and crypto

Zapper

Asset management platform for Web3

Drakula

NFT social media network

Liquity

Decentralized lending-borrowing protocol

Vesper

Decentralized yield protocol

Freatic

Decentralized information markets protocol

Metalink

Social app for NFT communities

Ethos

Sui wallet

Context

Watching wallets of friends, influencers, DAOs, and celebrities

Hyype

Social network and identity layer for NFT curators

Alethea AI

Building an Intelligent Metaverse

ClayStack

Liquid staking protocol

Saffron Finance

Decentralised risk exchange protocol

Streams

Effective ways to lend digital assets

Babylon Finance

Ethereum-based asset management platform

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Name	Round	Valuation	Amount	Date
Movement	Series A	--	$ 38 M	Apr 25
MyShell	Pre-A	--	$ 11 M	Mar 27
Eclipse	Series A	--	$ 50 M	Mar 11
Ingonyama	Seed	--	$ 21 M	Jan 23
Root Protocol	--	$ 100 M	$ 2.5 M	Jan 19
Freatic	Seed	--	$ 3.6 M	Sep 20, 2023
Swaap	Seed	--	$ 4.5 M	Apr 19, 2023
Metalink	Seed	--	$ 6 M	Mar 15, 2023
Ethos	Seed	--	$ 4.2 M	Jan 26, 2023
RISC Zero	Seed	$ 75 M	$ 12 M	Aug 09, 2022
Hashflow	Series A	$ 400 M	$ 25 M	Jul 21, 2022
Flowdesk	Series A	--	$ 30 M	Jun 25, 2022
Astaria	Seed	--	$ 8 M	Jun 20, 2022
PartyDAO	--	--	$ 16.4 M	Jun 10, 2022
Context	Seed	--	$ 19.5 M	Apr 14, 2022
Ceramic Network	Series A	--	$ 30 M	Feb 16, 2022
Synternet	Seed	--	$ 5 M	Dec, 2021
Zebec Protocol	Seed	--	$ 6 M	Nov 10, 2021
Hyype	--	--	$ 2 M	Oct 27, 2021
XMTP	Series A	--	$ 20 M	Sep 01, 2021

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Jean-Marie Mognetti

Jean-Marie Mognetti is the Chief Executive Officer of CoinShares and an experienced commodities trader with a background in quantitative strategies. He is responsible for overseeing the firm's proprietary trading arm, capital markets portfolio, and risk management practices. Before joining Global Advisors, Jean-Marie was a quantitative strategist at Hermes Commodities Fund Managers and an Energy Trader Assistant at Lehman Brothers. He has a Master of Science in Mathematical Trading and Finance from Sir John Cass Business School in London, a Master of Science in Bank-Finance-Insurance from Universit¨¦ Paris Dauphine in Paris, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance from Universit¨¦ Paris Dauphin