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Mika Honkasalo

Founder at Access Protocol

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Mika Honkasalo is an investment partner at Equilibrium Ventures and founder of Access Protocol, having previously held positions at ParaFi Capital and The Block.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Fermi Labs Fermi Labs
Seed -- $ 1.2 M
May 21
GasHawk GasHawk
Pre-Seed -- $ 1.6 M
Sep 12, 2024
MetaDAO MetaDAO
-- -- $ 2.2 M
Aug 01, 2024
Contango Contango
Seed $ 45 M $ 4 M
Jul 14, 2022
Lemma Finance Lemma Finance
-- -- --
Dec 01, 2021
Timeswap Timeswap
Seed -- --
Oct 22, 2021

Relevance Person

Kaleb Jessee

Kaleb Jessee is the CEO of The Block. He has a Masters in Public Administration from Western Kentucky University.

Kevin Yedid-Botton

Kevin Yedid-Botton is a Financial Markets expert at ParaFi Capital. Previously, he was a Quant and Strategic Investments PM. From 2015 to 2018, he was the CEO, CTO, and Founder of Tenzar Technologies, a computing company based in San Diego, CA. Professional Expertise: Technology, Financial Markets, and Investment Management.

Steven Zheng

Steven Zheng is The Director of Research at The Block and previously worked on blockchain and cryptocurrencies at Radicle, a startup analytics firm. He graduated from St. John's University of Technology.

Leo Wong

Leo Wong is the APEC Lead at Access Protocol, as well as a Venture Partner at Double Peak Group and a builder at WarpGate.

Lars H.

Lars H. is Senior Director of Research at The Block and previously worked at Credit Suisse. He graduated from Tsinghua University and ESB Business School, Reutlingen University.

Igor Igamberdiev

Igor Igamberdiev is Head of Research at Wintermute, formerly at Paradigm and Director of Research at The Block.

Santiago Roel Santos

Santiago Roel Santos is an angel investor, Founder of Inversion Capital, Founder of EON Capital, formerly Crypto-asset investing at ParaFi Capital, Founder of Roca Capital. Santiago became involved in Bitcoin in 2013 after realizing its potential to disrupt the remittance industry and to democratize the access to information and services. Prior to Roca, Santiago worked at J.P. Morgan in their investment banking financial sponsors group and then at Sageview Capital investing and helping internet and software companies scale. He then was technical advisor to the founders of Elysium Health, a leading consumer health company shifting the paradigm of drug discovery. He was one of the youngest recipients of the J.P. Morgan Launching Leaders Scholarship and admitted to their investment banking program as a freshman. Santiago earned a BA in Economics magna cum laude from Boston University in 3 years.

Michael Price

Michael Price is Head of Frontend Engiineering at The Block. Michael has been making magnificent software since 2005. At his previous gig, Michael took on a role as a Lead Developer at Mindfulware where he developed and oversaw the core architecture development for their insurance enrollment platform. Prior to that, Michael made miracles happen as a Senior Developer at PlutoTV, where he co–developed some of their key technologies responsible for bringing live TV experiences to the web. In his spare time, Michael enjoys contributing to open–source projects, long walks on the beach and spending time with his wife and 3 crazy kids.

Frank Chaparro

Frank Chaparro is Host of The Scoop and Director of Special Projects at The Block. Formerly: finance reporter in BusinessInsider, politics at WFUV Radio, comms at Nasdaq. Chaparro started his career at Business Insider, where he specialized in the intersection of digital assets and Wall Street, market structure, and financial technology. He has received numerous accolades for his work and maintained the position as one of the most well-read fintech reporter through his time there, breaking stories on firms such as Fidelity, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Nasdaq.

Ke Zhang

Ke Zhang is the Asia Pacific Director of the block and was previously the co-founder and Head of Business Development and Operations at GeniiData. She holds an MPhil in Development Studies from Cambridge University and specializes in economic and business research, youth empowerment, digital marketing and technology development.