Kevin Zhang

Venture Partner at Bain Capital Crypto

Firefly

Overview

Details

Kevin has led early-stage investments in financial technology and developer products since joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2017. Prior to Bain Capital, Kevin was the first business hire and Head of Product at Fundera, a lending marketplace acquired by NerdWallet (NASDAQ: NRDS). After hard weeks in the email salt mines, Kevin likes to catch Magic: the Gathering prereleases and watch Team Liquid play Starcraft.

Work Experience

Bain Capital Crypto

Venture Partner

2016 - Now

Education Experience

Columbia University

Investments

Privy

Web3 onboarding platform

Acquired

Name	Round	Valuation	Amount	Date
Privy	Seed	--	$ 8.3 M	Apr 20, 2022

Relevance Person

Jason

Jason is the Chief Financial Officer at Nakamoto Finance. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School. He previously served as the Finance Director at a leading startup technology company.

Alex Evans

Prior to joining Bain Capital Crypto, Alex was a researcher at Placeholder, where he focused on early-stage investing in DeFi, blockchain scalability, and privacy technologies. Drawn to problems that bridge theoretical ideas to practical implementation, he has published research on financial protocols, privacy, and consensus.

Guillermo Angeris

Guillermo is a Stanford lifer (BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering). He spends most of his work time in a dark corner of a room, figuring out random math problems for fun. He also loves to work with teams to model many of the weird (and fascinating) incentives in DeFi and beyond. Outside of work, Guillermo likes to cook pizza, hike, and have long, silly conversations with friends over wine.

TuongVy Le

TuongVy Le is a member of the Board of Directors of the Blockchain Association and previously served as General Counsel at Anchorage, Partner and Chief Regulatory and Policy Officer at Bain Capital Crypto, and Associate General Counsel and Compliance Officer at Worldcoin. She is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego and Yale University.

Chris Hofmann

Chris Hofmann was previously a partner at Bain Capital Crypto. He first became interested in cryptocurrencies in 2017 and specializes in the Cosmos ecosystem.

Mandy Campbell

Mandy leads Bain Capital Crypto’s and portfolio marketing efforts across brand, content, events, and communications. Before joining the Bain team, she led Marketing for global crypto exchange Okcoin and managed fast-growing teams at companies like GitHub, Lyft, and Meta. When she’s not helping builders, she’s hiking with her family or searching for carrot cake in the Bay Area.

Theo Diamandis

Theo Diamandis is currently the Research Partner at Bain Capital Crypto. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University.

Chaosmos

Chaosmos is the Head of Asia at Botanix and previously worked at CoinDesk and NEAR Protocol. He graduated from Columbia Journalism School.

Khurram Dara

Before joining Bain Capital Crypto, Khurram worked on the public policy team at Coinbase. A capital markets lawyer by training, Khurram has helped crypto projects navigate the legal and regulatory landscape since 2017, with a focus on tokens, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs. He was previously general counsel at Fluidity, the team behind AirSwap and prior to that practiced law at Orrick, where he worked with crypto projects as outside counsel. He began his legal career at Cahill Gordon & Reindel and is a graduate of Columbia Law School. Outside of work, Khurram enjoys playing soccer with friends and watching his beloved Buffalo Bills.

Dan Roberts

Dan is the former Editor in Chief at Variant. He has been writing about crypto since 2011. Prior to joining Variant, Dan was Editor in Chief at crypto news site Decrypt, where he recruited a team of writers and editors, led the site’s news strategy, created and hosted the gm podcast, planned and emceed live events, and moderated panels at conferences around the world. Before that, he spent five years at Yahoo Finance and five years at Fortune. He has written about tech, sports business, and books for a broad range of publications including Sports Illustrated, TIME, Vice, Air Mail, The Guardian, The Paris Review, NPR, Deadspin, Salon, The Daily Beast, The Morning News, and many more. He is the primary author of the 2013 book “Zoom: How to Supercharge Your Career.” He graduated from Middlebury College and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.