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Ben Rubin is the co-founder of Towns, and was previously the CEO and co-founder of Houseparty and Meerkat.
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Kenny Dong
Kenny Dong is an investor at Folius Ventures and previously worked at Sequoia Capital and Northern Lights Ventures. He graduated from Emory University and Yale University.
Hazel Chen
Hazel Chen currently works at Coinbase and was previously Head of Strategy and Operations at Orb Labs and Chief of Staff at Shima Capital. She was a former management consultant at Bain & Company, where she specialized in due diligence, marketing strategy, and implementation for 2C businesses. She has also worked in investments, post-investment management, and advisory for both Web2 and Web3 venture capital firms.
Ben Rubin
Ben Rubin is CEO and Co-Founder of Towns, and Founder and former CEO of Houseparty, which was acquired by the Epic Games Store. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
Matt Huang
Matt Huang is co-founder and Managing Partner at Paradigm. Previously, he was a partner at Sequoia Capital, focusing on early-stage venture investments, including leading the firm's cryptocurrency efforts. Matt was the founder and CEO of Hotspots, a Y Combinator company acquired by Twitter in 2012, and was an angel investor in companies such as Bytedance and Instacart. He bought his first Bitcoin from MtGox in 2012. Matt holds a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT.
Shaun Maguire
Shaun is a Partner at Sequoia Capital. Previously he Co-Founded Expanse which was acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $800M. He was also a Partner at GV. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech and Masters's degree in Statistics from Stanford and a "Control and Dynamical Systems" from Caltech.
Augustus (Augie) Ilag
Augie is an Investment Partner and Head of Asia at CMT Digital, a crypto and blockchain investment firm based in the US. He was previously with Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia where he spearheaded their crypto investments in the region. Before Sequoia, Augie spent time at McKinsey & Company focused on emerging markets, working on projects in Southeast Asia, LATAM, and the US. He holds a BA and MS from Stanford University and was selected for Forbes 30 under 30 in 2022.
Michelle Fradin
Michelle Fradin is Data at OpenAI. Presively she was a partner at Sequoia Capital, and her leading investment cases include FTX, LayerZero, NXYZ, Fireblocks and other projects.
Sarah Tavel
Sarah Tavel is a general Partner at Benchmark and was previously a partner at Greylock Partners and a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners.
Bryce Ferguson
Bryce Ferguson is the co-founder and CEO of Turnkey, having previously worked at Sequoia Capital and Coinbase. He is a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology.
Liu Jiang
Liu Jiang is an Angel Investor and Advisor, former Partner at Sequoia Capital.