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Jane Lippencott is a partner at a16z Crypto, she was previously a partner at Winklevoss Capital and also worked at Distributed Global.
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Cameron Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss is the Co-founder and President of Gemini, a next-generation Bitcoin exchange. He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Economics and earned an MBA from Oxford University. In 2008, he represented the United States at the Olympics Games in Beijing, China, where he placed 6th. Since 2003, Cameron has been an angel investor and entrepreneur in emerging technologies. He began participating in the Bitcoin economy through direct investment in 2012.
James Cheng
James Cheng is the Chief Financial Officer of Canaan. His resume includes vice president of Zhaopin Recruitment, financial director of Lenovo China and Asia Pacific, senior sales financial director of Nokia China, and demand planning manager of Effem Foods Beijing (Mars Inc.).
Ronny Conway
Ronny Conway is the Founder & General Partner at A.Capital. Prior to starting A.Capital, Ronny was one of the first Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, where he was the head of seed and early-stage investing and was involved in such high profile investments as Airbnb, Instagram, Optimizely, Pinterest, Dollar Shave Club and Twitter. Before a16z, Ronny spent six years at Google, and was one of the first employees at Google Ventures. Ronny has spent most of his life around venture capital, and received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA.
Ramu Arunachalam
Ramu Arunachalam is the General Partner at A.Capital. Ramu was most recently a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. A computer scientist by training, Ramu has over a decade of operating experience in product management and engineering at both startups and public companies. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Ramu led new product initiatives in Big Data for Aster Data (acquired by Teradata). Earlier in his career, Ramu was an engineer at VMware and part of the team that developed the industry’s first virtual switch for VMware’s flagship ESX server product line. Ramu holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with University Honors) from Carnegie Mellon University.
Li Jin
Li Jin is the co-founder of Variant Fund and the founder of Atelier Ventures. Prior to that, Li Jin was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
Nina Suthers
Nina is the chief marketing officer at Variant where she is responsible for the brand, marketing, communications, and events. She also advises projects in our portfolio on their marketing strategy. Nina was previously a marketing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where she helped build the crypto fund’s brand through media, events and special programs like the Crypto Startup School. Prior to her work at a16z, she was an account director at the OutCast Agency, a marketing agency specializing in comms, creative, and digital.
Dafu Gao
Dafu Gao is a partner at OnePiece Labs. He graduated from Lehigh University and holds a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Jonathan Lai
Jonathan Lai is Partner at Andreessen Horowitz on the consumer team, investing in games, crypto, and social. Today, Jon serves on the board of Elodie, Mainframe Industries, Mountaintop, Singularity 6, and StarStock, and helped lead the firm's investments in RTFKT, Roblox, Parsec, Lowkey, and Z League, among others. Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, Jon led the North America games investments team at Tencent. Prior, Jon was a product manager at Riot Games, the developers of League of Legends, where he shipped the Riot API and Merch Store before the company was acquired by Tencent. He started his career in investment banking for Morgan Stanley. Jon graduated from Harvard University with an MBA and BA in Economics, and lives in the Bay Area with his family.
Denis Nazarov
Denis Nazarov is the founder of Mirror. Previously, he was a consultant at Uniswap Labs and an investment partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He graduated from New York University.
Alexis Masseron
Alexis Masseron is the Co-founder and CEO of Atlendis Labs. Previously, he worked as a Software Engineer at ConsenSys. His educational background includes ESME and Shanghai Jiaotong University.