Andrew Israel

Venture Partner at New Form Capital

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Andrew Israel is an Investment Partner at New Form. Previously, Andrew worked on private credit transactions at Morgan Stanley on the Lev Fin team. He has been an active participant in Web3 networks since 2017 and is motivated by distributed computing's potential to change the way individuals interact with money, property, and each other. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a BA in statistics, data Science, and economics.

Work Experience

New Form Capital

Venture Partner

Education Experience

Yale University

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Virginia Tiernan

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