Web3 Founders & Funders | ETHDenver 2024
ETHDenver 2024’s must-attend investors and BUIDLers mixer!
Innovations happen when capital meets ideas. Join us for an enriching evening of shared insights, valuable connections, and meaningful discussions among some of the leading capital providers and most aspiring early and growth-stage Web3 BUIDLers!
What to expect:
- Exclusive Insights and First-hand Tips: Discover valuable insights from seasoned venture capitalists as they share their perspectives on how the industry is evolving and what founders can do to brace for the new cycle and stay ahead of the curve. Hear innovative business ideas and inspiring entrepreneurship directly from project leaders.
- Investor Meetups: Meet investors actively deploying millions of dollars across multiple sectors within blockchain and crypto space in real life, pitch your vision, and get feedback right away.
- Connection, Commiseration & Collaboration: Mingle, learn from, and network with passionate, open-minded, and innovative builders, operators, entrepreneurs, enthusiasts, and industry professionals in a collaborative and easygoing environment. Discover new partnership prospects and foster collaborations that can fuel your growth trajectory.
Limited spots are available, and your registration will be subject to approval. Reserve your spot now to guarantee your participation in this unforgettable event! And please make sure you fill out all the mandatory fields.
👉If you are a VC, please fill out: https://forms.gle/UJmbrJXd6DBsFBGt6
👉If you are a project raising funds, please fill out: https://forms.gle/YzxPP3QJSag8Thq99
About the Organizers:
Bing Ventures
Bing Ventures is a pioneering venture capital firm that backs startups and entrepreneurs driving the next wave of Web3 and blockchain innovations. Its team of crypto veterans and natives collectively brings decades of experience in investing in, incubating, developing, and marketing Web 3.0 projects. With a sector-agnostic, value-investing approach, it now has a portfolio spanning infrastructure, DeFi, GameFi, DAOs, Web3, and more. Bing Ventures is headquartered in Singapore and has team members decentralized across Asia, the UK, and the US. For more information, please visit https://www.bing-ventures.com/.
Castle Island Ventures
We are a venture capital firm focused exclusively on public blockchains. We invest in infrastructure and application companies that will enable these transformative protocols to power services for the next billion users. For more information, please visit https://www.castleisland.vc/.
Coin Center
Based in Washington, D.C., Coin Center is the leading non-profit research and advocacy center focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency and decentralized computing technologies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. For more information, please visit https://www.coincenter.org/.
Mindfulness Capital
Mindfulness Capital is a VC that supports Web3 founders and ecosystem. Mindfulness Capital has an investment portfolio that includes Web3/blockchain leaders such as Animoca Brands, The Sandbox, Bitmain, Antpool, Push, etc. In addition to early-stage investments, Mindfulness’ SPAC Nocturne Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ: MBTCU) has announced its merger with Cognos Therapeutics, a medical IOT tech company. For more information, please visit www.mindfulnesscap.com.
Speakers:
- Nic Carter, Founding Partner at Castle Island Ventures
- Tom Schmidt, Partner at Dragonfly Capital
- Ed Roman, Managing Director at Hack VC
- Neeraj Agrawal, Head of Communications at Coin Center
- Victor Ji, Co-founder of Manta Network
- Sidney Powell, Co-founder of Maple Finance
- Guillaume Lambert, PhD, Inventor of Panoptic Protocol
- Austin King, Cofounder of Omni Network
- Stephy Shi, Head of Eco at Mindfulness Capital
- Megan Nyvold, Head of Brand at BingX
Participating VCs (TBA):
Hack VC
Hack VC is a crypto-native venture capital firm that invests in crypto, blockchain infrastructure, and web3-native companies with investments across 100+ crypto startups and 25+ unicorns. More than just a technology fund, Hack VC has an in-house Crypto Lab – a one-of-a-kind technology platform with a dedicated team of crypto engineers and quant researchers that provides institutional-grade support for crypto networks, liquidity provisioning in DeFi, and governance for DAOs. Hack VC also has its own developer community with hack.summit(), the world’s largest blockchain programmer event, and a worldwide community with 130K+ attendees across 157 countries.
Dragonfly Capital
Dragonfly Capital is a boutique investment bank based in the Carolinas and focused on the smaller company market and offering private capital placement and merger/acquisition services. Our typical transaction is in the $5 million - $75 million range.
Dorahacks Ventures
Dora Ventures is an Appchain Thesis Fund that dedicates its capital towards cutting-edge Appchains and related infrastructures with a primary-secondary hybrid mandate. It also emphasizes support for its portfolio on decentralization, governance, and global open-source developer community engagement.
Adaverse
Founded in 2021 as a collaborative initiative between EMURGO and Everest Ventures Group to support blockchain solutions with funding, mentorship, and tech infrastructure.
Adaverse is a leading cardano-focused accelerator with a goal to help launch the next leading global enterprises. Since its inception, Adaverse has funded 40+ startups across Africa, Asia, and beyond.
Polymorphic Capital
Polymorphic Capital is a venture capital firm that selectively invests in extraordinary teams and emerging paradigms in blockchain and fintech globally. We support projects engendering change across the internet, economy, and society to be more transparent, inclusive, and effective through the use of decentralized protocols.
Saison Capital
Saison Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund (pre-seed to Series B) with a focus on emerging markets. We back ambitious founders solving big problems in web3, fintech, and embedded finance. Each individual in our team comes from an operating background, and we are unafraid to roll up our sleeves to support our founders. We are backed by Credit Saison, a Tokyo-listed US$30B AUM consumer finance company with extensive financial services across Asia.
RockawayX
Through a comprehensive value proposition of venture investing, engineering, and liquidity provisioning, RockawayX supports the pioneers of tomorrow to help Web3 projects ship products faster.
Paramita
Paramita [ päˈrəmə̇tə ] is a thesis-driven investment group, focusing on public protocols. Our key thesis is intersubjective trust-minimization, including decentralized information, decentralized science, and decentralized society, for a better network future. We value public scientific research and infrastructure. The key differentiator of Paramita is that not only do we contribute to the paradigm shift of a science-driven economy by liquidity, but also by accelerating the founders by research empowered by the Desci community( 1000+ scientists), public goods developers support( 10000+ open-source developers) and co-build the narrative and ecosystems (10+ infra ecosystems).
Presto Labs
We're a quantitative trading firm, established in Singapore back in 2014. We build automated trading systems fueled by data-driven quantitative analysis to achieve stable and sustainable investment returns. Our engineering teams do what humans do best – create algorithmic decision processes in order to achieve what no human trader ever could in today’s fast-changing, unbelievably complex financial world.
Moonvault Partners
Moonvault is a multi-asset trading firm with a relentless focus on emerging crypto verticals poised for explosive growth. We specialize in providing liquidity and creating efficient markets for trading platforms and projects alike. We currently marketmake at various venues including both centralized exchanges and decentralized orderbook trading platforms. Moonvault recently launched our venture war chest which will be focused on investing and supporting projects at the application layer, especially those with significant synergies with our core operations. Moonvault was founded in 2021 by our co-founders with strong institutional background from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Moonvault is based out of Asia with a presence in Singapore and Hong Kong.
Hansa
Hansa is an early-stage web3 fund that invests in and incubates protocols powering the future of open societies.
Optic Capital
Optic Capital is an early-stage Web3 venture capital fund with a focus on backing blockchain founders that revolutionize the community-owned internet. While we provide financial support, with our sweet spot being in the $50,000 - $250,000 range, we also provide strategic support working with founders and their teams. At Optic we offer a wide range of support to our investments with a particular emphasis on go-to-market strategies and scalable user acquisition. With a focus on: - Scale user acquisition with effective go-to-market strategies and influencer/KOL networks - Tokemomics (distribution, economy, utility) - Leveraging our expansive network of web3 VCs, launchpads, exchanges, and more.
RockTree Capital
RockTree Capital is an early-stage crypto-native fund and merchant bank based in Beijing, China. RockTree portfolio companies get to leverage our deep regional relationships with leading crypto exchanges (including listings), our extensive network of institutional capital collaborators, and other Web3 partners, as well as implementing a hyper-effective growth marketing approach to rapidly scale retail, developer, and other community supporters.
Agenda
5:00-5:30 Check-In
5:30-5:35 Greetings and Opening Remarks
5:35-6:15 Panel Discussion | The Founders’ Perspective: Growth, Innovation, and the Mainstream Era of Crypto
6:20-7:00 Panel Discussion | The VC’s Perspective: Positioning for the New Cycle
7:00-7:10 Q&A: Ask the VCs
7:10-8:00 Networking over drinks and canapés!
ETHDenver 2024’s must-attend investors and BUIDLers mixer!
Innovations happen when capital meets ideas. Join us for an enriching evening of shared insights, valuable connections, and meaningful discussions among some of the leading capital providers and most aspiring early and growth-stage Web3 BUIDLers!
What to expect:
- Exclusive Insights and First-hand Tips: Discover valuable insights from seasoned venture capitalists as they share their perspectives on how the industry is evolving and what founders can do to brace for the new cycle and stay ahead of the curve. Hear innovative business ideas and inspiring entrepreneurship directly from project leaders.
- Investor Meetups: Meet investors actively deploying millions of dollars across multiple sectors within blockchain and crypto space in real life, pitch your vision, and get feedback right away.
- Connection, Commiseration & Collaboration: Mingle, learn from, and network with passionate, open-minded, and innovative builders, operators, entrepreneurs, enthusiasts, and industry professionals in a collaborative and easygoing environment. Discover new partnership prospects and foster collaborations that can fuel your growth trajectory.
Limited spots are available, and your registration will be subject to approval. Reserve your spot now to guarantee your participation in this unforgettable event! And please make sure you fill out all the mandatory fields.
👉If you are a VC, please fill out: https://forms.gle/UJmbrJXd6DBsFBGt6
👉If you are a project raising funds, please fill out: https://forms.gle/YzxPP3QJSag8Thq99
About the Organizers:
Bing Ventures
Bing Ventures is a pioneering venture capital firm that backs startups and entrepreneurs driving the next wave of Web3 and blockchain innovations. Its team of crypto veterans and natives collectively brings decades of experience in investing in, incubating, developing, and marketing Web 3.0 projects. With a sector-agnostic, value-investing approach, it now has a portfolio spanning infrastructure, DeFi, GameFi, DAOs, Web3, and more. Bing Ventures is headquartered in Singapore and has team members decentralized across Asia, the UK, and the US. For more information, please visit https://www.bing-ventures.com/.
Castle Island Ventures
We are a venture capital firm focused exclusively on public blockchains. We invest in infrastructure and application companies that will enable these transformative protocols to power services for the next billion users. For more information, please visit https://www.castleisland.vc/.
Coin Center
Based in Washington, D.C., Coin Center is the leading non-profit research and advocacy center focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency and decentralized computing technologies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. For more information, please visit https://www.coincenter.org/.
Mindfulness Capital
Mindfulness Capital is a VC that supports Web3 founders and ecosystem. Mindfulness Capital has an investment portfolio that includes Web3/blockchain leaders such as Animoca Brands, The Sandbox, Bitmain, Antpool, Push, etc. In addition to early-stage investments, Mindfulness’ SPAC Nocturne Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ: MBTCU) has announced its merger with Cognos Therapeutics, a medical IOT tech company. For more information, please visit www.mindfulnesscap.com.
Speakers:
- Nic Carter, Founding Partner at Castle Island Ventures
- Tom Schmidt, Partner at Dragonfly Capital
- Ed Roman, Managing Director at Hack VC
- Neeraj Agrawal, Head of Communications at Coin Center
- Victor Ji, Co-founder of Manta Network
- Sidney Powell, Co-founder of Maple Finance
- Guillaume Lambert, PhD, Inventor of Panoptic Protocol
- Austin King, Cofounder of Omni Network
- Stephy Shi, Head of Eco at Mindfulness Capital
- Megan Nyvold, Head of Brand at BingX
Participating VCs (TBA):
Hack VC
Hack VC is a crypto-native venture capital firm that invests in crypto, blockchain infrastructure, and web3-native companies with investments across 100+ crypto startups and 25+ unicorns. More than just a technology fund, Hack VC has an in-house Crypto Lab – a one-of-a-kind technology platform with a dedicated team of crypto engineers and quant researchers that provides institutional-grade support for crypto networks, liquidity provisioning in DeFi, and governance for DAOs. Hack VC also has its own developer community with hack.summit(), the world’s largest blockchain programmer event, and a worldwide community with 130K+ attendees across 157 countries.
Dragonfly Capital
Dragonfly Capital is a boutique investment bank based in the Carolinas and focused on the smaller company market and offering private capital placement and merger/acquisition services. Our typical transaction is in the $5 million - $75 million range.
Dorahacks Ventures
Dora Ventures is an Appchain Thesis Fund that dedicates its capital towards cutting-edge Appchains and related infrastructures with a primary-secondary hybrid mandate. It also emphasizes support for its portfolio on decentralization, governance, and global open-source developer community engagement.
Adaverse
Founded in 2021 as a collaborative initiative between EMURGO and Everest Ventures Group to support blockchain solutions with funding, mentorship, and tech infrastructure.
Adaverse is a leading cardano-focused accelerator with a goal to help launch the next leading global enterprises. Since its inception, Adaverse has funded 40+ startups across Africa, Asia, and beyond.
Polymorphic Capital
Polymorphic Capital is a venture capital firm that selectively invests in extraordinary teams and emerging paradigms in blockchain and fintech globally. We support projects engendering change across the internet, economy, and society to be more transparent, inclusive, and effective through the use of decentralized protocols.
Saison Capital
Saison Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund (pre-seed to Series B) with a focus on emerging markets. We back ambitious founders solving big problems in web3, fintech, and embedded finance. Each individual in our team comes from an operating background, and we are unafraid to roll up our sleeves to support our founders. We are backed by Credit Saison, a Tokyo-listed US$30B AUM consumer finance company with extensive financial services across Asia.
RockawayX
Through a comprehensive value proposition of venture investing, engineering, and liquidity provisioning, RockawayX supports the pioneers of tomorrow to help Web3 projects ship products faster.
Paramita
Paramita [ päˈrəmə̇tə ] is a thesis-driven investment group, focusing on public protocols. Our key thesis is intersubjective trust-minimization, including decentralized information, decentralized science, and decentralized society, for a better network future. We value public scientific research and infrastructure. The key differentiator of Paramita is that not only do we contribute to the paradigm shift of a science-driven economy by liquidity, but also by accelerating the founders by research empowered by the Desci community( 1000+ scientists), public goods developers support( 10000+ open-source developers) and co-build the narrative and ecosystems (10+ infra ecosystems).
Presto Labs
We're a quantitative trading firm, established in Singapore back in 2014. We build automated trading systems fueled by data-driven quantitative analysis to achieve stable and sustainable investment returns. Our engineering teams do what humans do best – create algorithmic decision processes in order to achieve what no human trader ever could in today’s fast-changing, unbelievably complex financial world.
Moonvault Partners
Moonvault is a multi-asset trading firm with a relentless focus on emerging crypto verticals poised for explosive growth. We specialize in providing liquidity and creating efficient markets for trading platforms and projects alike. We currently marketmake at various venues including both centralized exchanges and decentralized orderbook trading platforms. Moonvault recently launched our venture war chest which will be focused on investing and supporting projects at the application layer, especially those with significant synergies with our core operations. Moonvault was founded in 2021 by our co-founders with strong institutional background from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Moonvault is based out of Asia with a presence in Singapore and Hong Kong.
Hansa
Hansa is an early-stage web3 fund that invests in and incubates protocols powering the future of open societies.
Optic Capital
Optic Capital is an early-stage Web3 venture capital fund with a focus on backing blockchain founders that revolutionize the community-owned internet. While we provide financial support, with our sweet spot being in the $50,000 - $250,000 range, we also provide strategic support working with founders and their teams. At Optic we offer a wide range of support to our investments with a particular emphasis on go-to-market strategies and scalable user acquisition. With a focus on: - Scale user acquisition with effective go-to-market strategies and influencer/KOL networks - Tokemomics (distribution, economy, utility) - Leveraging our expansive network of web3 VCs, launchpads, exchanges, and more.
RockTree Capital
RockTree Capital is an early-stage crypto-native fund and merchant bank based in Beijing, China. RockTree portfolio companies get to leverage our deep regional relationships with leading crypto exchanges (including listings), our extensive network of institutional capital collaborators, and other Web3 partners, as well as implementing a hyper-effective growth marketing approach to rapidly scale retail, developer, and other community supporters.
Agenda
5:00-5:30 Check-In
5:30-5:35 Greetings and Opening Remarks
5:35-6:15 Panel Discussion | The Founders’ Perspective: Growth, Innovation, and the Mainstream Era of Crypto
6:20-7:00 Panel Discussion | The VC’s Perspective: Positioning for the New Cycle
7:00-7:10 Q&A: Ask the VCs
7:10-8:00 Networking over drinks and canapés!