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Note from Kevin Ding
GP of venture funds totaling over 1B in committed capital for incubation and investment. Researched AI and cryptography @Stanford. I've since been investing/building at the frontiers of AI, blockchain, cloud technologies since 2013. Over the years, I've built great relationships with leading minds in the core crypto and AI, academic and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Nothing excites me more than incubating/scaling shoulder to shoulder with our entrepreneurial partners to bring a seemingly contrarian vision to reality.
Since 2013, I've been one of the earliest investors/co-builders in 30+ category defining AI / tech companies and 30+ crypto protocols, such as:
<Web2/AI>
*Deliverr(Seed/A, acq'ed by Shopify for $2.1B), *Flexport(A, ~a16z led $8B val), *Branch Metrics(B, $4B val), *Viz.ai(Seed/A,$1.2B val), *AutoX(Seed, ~$3B val), *Tubi (A, by Fox for $500M), *Grubmarket(A, ~$1B val), *Rippling(Seed, KPCB led $11B val) , *Cohesity(B,C, $5B val), *Mercury (Seed,$1.6B val), *Density (A, $1B val), *Side (Seed, $2B val), Roblox, Plaid, *Optimizely (acq'ed by Episerver), *Cognito (acq'ed by Plaid), *PathAI , *OtterAI, *Beam, DialPad, Anthropic, Rewind AI, Caspar AI, Devrev AI, CloseFactor, Stability AI, Runway ML, Cohere, Humane AI, AI21 Labs, Tavus, NeuraLink.
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*IPFS/Filecoin (Seed, ~$10B), *Hadera (Seed, ~$10B), *Compound (Seed, ~$5B), *Cosmos(A, ~$5B), *Brave Browser (Seed, ~$1B), *Fantom (Seed, ~$5B), *Ankr, *Ontology (Seed), *Chia, *Certik (Seed, ~$2B), *Starkware (Seed, ~$8B), Avalanche, FedML, Babylon, *Eigenlayer, Overeality, LayerZero, Theta(~$5B), Figure, Celer, Blockfolio, Infstones, Dfinity, Cobo, Uniswap, Coinlist.
Over the years, I've developed a unique approach to building enduring web3 companies, combining lessons learned in the front row seat of over 30 crypto unicorns. I'm a full stack business partner for the next great founder, with a first principle driven contrarian technologist background. Anti-authoritarian is in founders blood and I’m shoulder to shoulder building all the way. Currently looking at AI+web3, ZKP, shared security, AMMs, trust-minimized infra, rollup the world. In math we trust. Die Luft der Freiheit weht.
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I will try to share where I have at least a $100K allocation, and the founder / entrepreneur allows it.