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Samantha oversees DCG's post-investment engine. Her team is responsible for tracking the performance of DCG's more than 200 startup and token project investments, offering strategic and operational advice to those companies and their executives, and forging partnerships on DCG's network behalf. Samantha began her career at Orbis Investments, the global asset manager, where she conducted fund analysis, focusing on emerging market equities, and eventually led global growth initiatives around the launch of a first-of-its-kind retail investment platform. Before joining DCG, Samantha ran business development efforts at Elder, the London-based health tech company, overseeing public sector procurement and private sector partnerships. Samantha graduated from Georgetown University (BA) and London School of Economics (Masters).
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Lucy W.
Lucy W. is the Vice President of Marketing at Horizen and previously served as Director of Brand and Marketing at Horizen Labs. She is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom.
Ryan Selkis
Ryan Selkis is the Founder & CEO of Messari, and was previously an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at ConsenSys and a founding team member at the industry's most active investor, Digital Currency Group, and the largest media brand, CoinDesk. He is also working on new ventures and angel investing.
Cais Manai
Cais Manai is co-founder and head of Product at Ten and was previously Principal Product Manager at R3 and associate Director of prime brokerage at UBS.
Rebecca Rettig
Rebecca Rettig is Chief Legal and Policy Officer at Polygon and was previously general counsel at Aave Companies. She also works with policymakers around the world on regulatory matters related to decentralized finance (" DeFi ") and crypto assets.
Travis Scher
Travis is co-founder and Managing Partner at NIV. Prior to founding NIV, he led investments at Digital Currency Group from 2015-2019, during which time he invested in over 100 crypto startups and protocols across dozens of countries. Travis started his career as an M&A attorney at Skadden Arps. He holds a BBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School.
Daniel A. Casanas
Daniel A. Casanas is Director of investments at the Stellar Development Foundation. He is a graduate of Duke University in the United States and the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom.
Vickaash Agarwal
Vickaash Agarwal is a partner at Illuminati Capital. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and the Indian Institute of Management.
Michael Shen
Michael Shen is the CEO of Pop Social, having previously held positions at Credit Suisse and Wellington Management. He graduated from Northeastern University in the United States and the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom.
Mira Christanto
Mira Christanto was previously an Investment Director at DCG, a data analyst at Messari, and a senior portfolio Manager at APG. Mira manages real estate for lease in Indonesia and an urban meditation studio to engage the community in Hong Kong. Most recently, Mira was a Senior Portfolio Manager at APG Asset Management, focused on Real Estate equity investments across Asia Pacific. Since joining APG in 2009, the fund has also grown to the largest of its kind to US$7 billion. Prior to APG, Mira worked at US$15 billion hedge fund TPG-Axon Capital Management, an affiliate of Texas Pacific Group, where she was a private and public market investor across multiple sectors and geographies. Before that, Mira was in Credit Suisse’s Investment Banking Division in the Leveraged Finance and Restructuring group in New York and worked on a variety of mergers & acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and restructuring deals. Mira received a BA in Economics and Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences from Northwestern University.
Dmitry Lapidus
Dmitry Lapidus is an investor at CoinFund and previously an investor at Dragonfly. He holds a BA in Government and Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).