Meet The World-Class Team

General Partners

James Hodges
Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Multiple Founder & Crypto Influencer. Finance @ UC Berkeley, in Crypto since ‘13. Helped Scale Fintech start-up MX.com from 2-28M users.

Todd Bendell, CFP(R)
General Partner & Co-Founder

9+ years at Merrill Lynch, Runs Private Wealth Management Practice, Crypto Investor since ‘14.

Ivailo Jordanov
General Partner & Fund Selection

Prolific crypto quant fund investor with 10+ years experience in crypto. Lead crypto partner at $100M VC fund. Invested in 80 crypto projects in ‘21.

CRO/CIO

Coming in Q3/Q4

Operations Team

Andrew Hoppin
CIO & Fund Managment
ChainLink Capital

Leading blockchain technology investor, Global Impact Entrepreneur with 23+ years experience.

Paola Origel
IRO & Fund Management
ChainLink Capital

+14 years of experience working for hedge funds, family offices, and private banking in NYC.

Mark Wagner
CFO

+20 years of experience of accounting, auditing, financial management, early stage startups and Venture Capital.

Gareth Hermann
CMO

Serial entrepreneur, helped scale 100+ companies as a Fractional COO/Integrator. Partner in Connected Ventures and coach for TechStars

Thao Nguyen
Financial Controller


Experience in Fund Accounting & Operations since 2010 with various investments & fund structures. Formerly with Salient Partners LP.

Aines Rincon
Operations & Admin


Operations, admin and spreadsheet ninja.

Ross Hardingham
Product Operations

Analyst at Chainlink Capital. Assisting with research and analysis to construct trade ideas and extract risk-adjusted returns.

Alexandre Pereira
Risk Manager


+20 years of experience working for global investment bank, crypto hedge fund, specialized in Equities and Crypto execution technology, operation, risk and regulatory compliance.

Roberto Spadim
Quant, Algo Specialist & Data Analyst


Technical background in data science, financial engineering specialist by USP (Universidade de São Paulo), databases skills, taxes specialist, hardware, firmware and software development.

Jose Bianco
Quant, Algo Specialist & Data Analyst

Data scientist with a PhD from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His expertise is centered on statistics, data analytics and machine learning, to create quantitative systems and predictive models in financial markets.

Our world leading advisors

Brittany Kaiser
Chairman
Gryphon Mining

Expert in data protection, blockchain technology and legislative reform, Chair Of The Board Of Directors at Gryphon Digital Mining

David Langer
Founding Partner
Lionheart Ventures

Founder of $25M impact-driven VC fund and experienced crypto quant fund investor. Advisor to HeartRithm and DFi Labs.

Alex Waters
CIO, Custody & Architect
Protego Trust

One of the early veterans in Bitcoin, began investing in 2011 and has launched multiple companies in the space.

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