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Exploring and enabling the cutting-edge technologies and systems that shape the future.
Venture capitalist & angel investor. Scientist. Engineer.
Exploring and enabling the cutting-edge technologies and systems that shape the future.
Before I studied
networks,
I studied atoms.
My background is in electronic engineering. I studied at Southampton before completing a PhD in nanoelectronics at Cambridge, where I worked on zinc oxide nanowire transistors and their potential applications in memory and sensing.
Research at that scale leaves little room for hand-waving. Devices behave differently in practice than they do on paper, and small changes in materials or fabrication can determine whether something works reliably. You learn to question results, understand the limits of a system, and distinguish what is theoretically possible from what can actually be built.
I carried that perspective into industry, then into blockchain research and venture investing. The technology changed, but the questions remained familiar: what makes a system work, where are its real constraints, and what will it take for it to work at scale?
Today, I invest across digital assets and Web3, as well as frontier technologies including AI and robotics. I’m interested in the underlying technology, the economics that determine whether it can succeed, and the people capable of turning ambitious ideas into enduring businesses.
Across these fields, I look for the same things: sound technology, clear thinking and the potential to build something that lasts.
Resume
Profile
Venture capitalist and angel investor focused on empowering the most promising early-stage startups in the digital-asset ecosystem. Ex-scientist and engineer with a PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge. Partner at V3V Ventures, having progressed from Investment Manager to Principal and Partner across a portfolio of ~50 Web3 companies. Previously Head of Business Development at Kyros Ventures, leading deal sourcing on ~$15M deployed. Active in the ecosystem since 2017 as a speaker, accelerator mentor and Demo Day judge, with a network spanning founders, funds and ecosystem partners.
Selected achievements
- $25M+
- V3V Ventures, Kyros Ventures, CryptoMinati Capital and angel tickets. Typical V3V tickets $100K–$500K.
- 200+
- Combined investment output across V3V Ventures, Kyros Ventures, CryptoMinati Capital and angel activity.
- 10+
- Including Web3Auth (acquired by Consensys), Curvy, Coin98, Opium Network and Mina across infrastructure, privacy, crypto × AI and DeFi.
- PhD
- Nanoelectronics. First Class Honors MEng, Southampton; Sir William Siemens Medal and Zepler Prize.
Investment experience
V3V Ventures
Partner · Principal · Investment Manager
V3V Ventures
Partner · Principal · Investment Manager
Partner
- Continuing core investment activities developed as Principal: sourcing, evaluating and supporting early-stage blockchain and digital-asset companies.
- Spearheading V3V Advisory, providing fundraising and go-to-market support to early-stage blockchain startups.
- Advisor to Muralis (non-custodial market making and treasury automation for Solana tokens) and Reactor (AI-native DeFi super app).
Principal
- Sourced and evaluated early-stage opportunities across Web3, with particular focus on stablecoin payments and fintech, prediction markets, Solana and Hyperliquid ecosystems, and decentralized AI.
- Led investment analysis across business models, markets, competitive positioning, financials and teams; drove diligence, risk assessment and investment recommendations.
- Negotiated investment terms with founders, including ticket size, equity, cliff and vesting provisions, and other contractual terms.
- Supported portfolio companies through strategic guidance and introductions; advised Managing Partners on investment strategy and market sentiment.
- Represented V3V at industry conferences and ecosystem events as speaker and panelist; mentored across multiple accelerators and served on Demo Day and pitch-session juries.
Investment Manager
- Conducted strategic market analysis, sourcing, due diligence and risk assessment for early-stage blockchain and digital-asset opportunities.
- Supported business development and network expansion across the blockchain ecosystem.
- Unifold — Multi-chain deposit infrastructure for Web3 apps and AI agents · YC W26
- Lattica — Decentralized margin and credit protocol for prediction markets
- Uniblock — Unified Web3 developer platform and API orchestration layer
- AllScale — Self-custody stablecoin neobank and payment infrastructure
- Super Protocol — Confidential computing and AI marketplace on hardware-backed TEEs
- OpenLedger — EVM-compatible Layer 1 acting as a decentralized AI liquidity layer
- OWB Studio — Agentic infrastructure layer built for live video games
Angel Investor
Independent
Angel Investor
Independent
Independent
- 10+ investments in early-stage Web3 companies across infrastructure, privacy, crypto × AI and DeFi.
- Selected investments: Web3Auth (acquired by Consensys), Curvy, Coin98, Opium Network, Mina.
CryptoMinati Capital
Managing Partner
CryptoMinati Capital
Managing Partner
Managing Partner
- Managed a Web3 proprietary venture capital fund with in-house marketing professionals and Web3 analysts.
- Focused on infrastructure, DeFi and blockchain gaming; investments included SEOR Network, Colony and Idle Cyber.
Kyros Ventures
Business Development · Research · Limited Partner
Kyros Ventures
Business Development · Research · Limited Partner
Limited Partner
- LP in the fund whilst heading the Business Development department.
Head of Business Development
- Led sourcing of all deals with a team of 5+ business development professionals; ~$15M deployed under this leadership.
- Portfolio included My Neighbor Alice (500x at launch), Maps.me, Umbrella Network, FMX (Kyros-led round), Euler Finance, Jupiter and Meteora.
- Worked with the marketing team on project incubation in Vietnam; the business development team generated the bulk of returns and revenue.
Head of Research & Lead Analyst
- Researched and assessed digital-asset markets and individual projects against the firm’s investment thesis, identifying emerging themes and opportunities.
TimeMedia Fund
Head of Blockchain Research
TimeMedia Fund
Head of Blockchain Research
Head of Blockchain Research
- Researched blockchain startups and digital-asset investment opportunities, including ICOs such as Dent, Wabi, Utrust and Quantstamp.
I invest in
systems,
not narratives.
The most important opportunities emerge when new technologies change how the world coordinates, computes, and allocates capital. I look for structural shifts before they become consensus — and founders building what comes next.
Infrastructure
The foundational rails that make digital assets, open financial markets, and permissionless applications possible.
Networks
Protocols that become more valuable as participation grows, connecting users, liquidity, and computation into self-reinforcing systems.
Incentives
The economic mechanisms that turn aligned interests into durable networks — and distinguish sustainable value from speculative activity.
Computation
The convergence of cryptography, distributed systems, and verifiable computation reshaping what software can do without trusted intermediaries.
Capital
Backing exceptional founders at the earliest stages, when conviction matters most and the opportunity is still misunderstood.
Ideas under observation
Ten connected fields. Select a specimen to trace the assumptions, adjacencies and questions underneath it.
Select a field to inspect
How technology coordinates people, capital and computation.
Value accrues to whatever makes leaving expensive.
In action
Speaking, judging, mentoring, and hearing ambitious founders making their case.
The useful work happens between the prepared remarks: testing assumptions, comparing notes, and deciding what holds up.
