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Tara Tan is the founder and managing Partner of Strange Ventures and was previously a general partner at IDEO CoLab Ventures.
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Ali Sheppard
Ali Sheppard is Head of operations at IDEO CoLab Ventures and a graduate of MIT.
Paris Rouzati
Paris Rouzati was Chief of Staff at Slow Ventures, Head of Marketing & Comms at about.me, Product Marketing Manager at Medium. Award-winning product and marketing leader with a deep understanding of the digital landscape and a passion for building technology with purpose. Previously, I worked at Slow Ventures helping founders in our community with their product and growth strategies, as well as discovering the next great consumer technology startups. Forbes 30 Under 30 for Marketing & Advertising 2016.
Joe Gerber
Joe Gerber is the founder of IDEO CoLab Ventures and was previously a senior Product Manager at Fidelity Investments.
Gavin McDermott
Gavin McDermott is an investor at IDEO CoLab. Previously, he was a founding development engineer at BitGo Bitcoin Security and was the head of the Lovely front end.
Reuben Bramanathan
Reuben Bramanathan is the General Partner at IDEO CoLab Ventures and formerly Product Lead at Coinbase Asset Management, a new division of Coinbase focusing on Index Funds for crypto-assets. He is a former lawyer who has advised clients on legal and regulatory aspects of bitcoin and blockchain technology since 2014. He wrote and lectured the world’s first postgraduate course on the Regulation of Digital Currency, at the University of Nicosia, and co-authored the industry-leading legal research paper The Blockchain Token Securities Law Framework in 2016.
Jinglan Wang
Jinglan Wang is the Co-Founder of Optimism. Previously, she was involved with Handshake, the MIT Bitcoin Club, NASDAQ, and IDEO.
Ian Lee
Ian Lee is the Co-Founder at Syndicate and formerly Managing Director of IDEO CoLab Ventures and General Partner at Digital Asset Investment Company. He focuses on blockchain technology, distributed ledgers, digital currencies, and Bitcoin. Previously, he was the head of Citi's Global Lab Network and led Citi's Blockchain Accelerator. He worked with Citi's innovation labs, venture investing team, business unit executives, and strategic partners to pursue important growth opportunities for Citi that required deep relationships, coordinated investment, and open collaboration. Ian also helped lead Citi's investments and activities in blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. Ian brings more than ten years of experience in strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship to Citi Ventures. Before joining Citi Ventures in 2014, he helped build the global innovation organization at Deloitte, a $34B professional services firm. He co-founded two startups, including a communications app and social enterprise, and spent more than six years as a management consultant at Monitor-Deloitte. He holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and double bachelor degrees in Design Media Arts and Economics from UCLA.