Advisory and Venture Investments
I am interested in early stage companies that use frontier technologies to solve business problems in financial services and enterprise. Below, I list some of the ideas that I have engaged with by industry. Some are painfully wrong, but hey, understanding the rationale that led to decisions is more important than how a particular outcome falls on a long-tailed probability distribution curve.
Earlier in my career, I tried to get on advisory boards of companies for equity and most of them said "No". After 2017, much of that changed as demand for credible people to help with blockchain-based projects went through the roof. To learn more about these projects, I joined a few compelling ideas as a strategic advisor for token based-compensation. At worst, that taught me what's wrong with token-based compensation!
In other cases, I've made personal equity investments, and now also advise an early stage Fintech venture fund on deals in the space. If you have a fresh idea with product-market fit and are interested in either investment or advisory, please reach out here.
Financial Technology
Enterprise blockchain solutions targeting corporate and FX markets
High frequency trading piping between digital asset exchange with API output
Investment / equity research community aggregator
Institutional wealth management analytics platform
Crypto wrapper for the secondary markets, similar toADR structure
Decentralized exchange for trading crypto assets
Private equity deal flow from network of experienced sponsors seeking backing from capital partners
Digital lender focused on invoice financing credit
ATM machines for withdrawing crypto currency
Artificial Intelligence and Hardware
Hardware for deep learning workstations and GPU cloud
Natural language interface for interacting with statistical data
Sound-based QR code that pairs WiFi enabled devices
Identity and Healthcare
Self sovereign identity software, with wallet-based identity
Blockchain based medical supply chain
Medical treatment and records for life-threatening diseases
Open science project sharing scientific data, focused on medical research
Attention Platforms: Social Media and Mixed Reality
Virtual reality film production studiofocused on social impact
Social money for influencers on the Ethereum blockchain
Attention tracking token in virtual reality environments
Augmented reality real estate title and permissions database