Our Team

 

Mike Chan


Managing Partner


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Mike is a former startup founder who has launched products and led growth teams in blockchain, developer tools, B2B SaaS, consumer tech, and sports. His work has garnered tens of millions of revenue across multiple industries and company stages.

He recently led marketing for Thesis*, Panther Protocol, UTU, and Meter, growing communities and token holders by 20x.

Mike is a mentor for Techstars, Bitcoin Startup Lab, and CryptoOracle’s Web3 x AI accelerator. He attended Lehigh (MatSci), Georgia Tech (IE), and NYU Stern (MBA).

Sherman Lee


Co-Founder and Venture Partner


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Sherman is a software engineer and entrepreneur who has been investing in tech companies for nearly a decade.

Sherman co-founded Raven Protocol which focuses on decentralized compute for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. He was also a partner at Zeroth.ai, an AI accelerator acquired by Animoca.

He started his career doing machine learning at Yahoo and Ask.com, scaling platforms for hundreds of millions of users. He graduated from UC Berkeley where he studied Computer Science and Linguistics.

Ethan Plous


Venture Partner, Syndicate Lead

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Ethan is a product and growth-oriented operator. He was part of the founding team at Wat, building natural language search for digital assets (acq. by Onaji.io), and formerly a member of Lab0324 and Smol Studios.

Through his personal practice, Ethan has incubated several projects (InterWeb, XSENS, UFO), and offers product support to exciting early-stage companies (Truffle, Friend.com, LOT2046).

Ethan studied Government/Political Science at Hamilton College and Washington University in St. Louis.