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Serial founder and COO building Syntax, a blockchain and AI dev studio in NYC
Credibility
Traction · 59th percentile
- Past founder of Smilesss, RELI3F.xyz, and ZonedIn, making him a serial founder across multiple ventures.
- Syntax and prior ventures had co-founders across multiple companies.
- RELI3F.xyz raised $1.5M+ for global humanitarian aid through NFT-based fundraising.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current Co-Founder and COO of Syntax, a full-stack blockchain and AI development studio based in New York.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)GitHub account @giovannigussen identified and linked from LinkedIn profile.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)GitHub account @giovannigussen has been active for approximately 6 years (created October 2019).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past founder of Smilesss, RELI3F.xyz, and ZonedIn, making him a serial founder across multiple ventures.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Syntax and prior ventures had co-founders across multiple companies.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)RELI3F.xyz raised $1.5M+ for global humanitarian aid through NFT-based fundraising.
Investor score
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Served on the Screening Committee at Rowan Innovation Venture Fund for 6 years, evaluating early-stage investments.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Served as a Venture Fellow at Angelfund.ai, gaining early exposure to venture investing.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Described as a Venture Capitalist and partner at MoonShot Guru, a Venture Capital Studio.
What you likely need
You need events that put you in the room with blockchain-focused fund partners at Multicoin, Paradigm, and Variant before your seed deck is fully polished — warm relationships close rounds faster than cold outreach. Case study credibility and open-source visibility will do the heavy lifting on positioning, so gatherings where you can workshop those narratives with operators who've done it will compound quickly. Hiring a senior blockchain engineer is your single biggest unlock for BD freedom, so targeted recruiting events in the Web3 developer community are high-priority too.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA dinner for Multicoin, Paradigm, and Variant portfolio founders to pressure-test a seed deck built around Story Protocol, Yuga Labs, and 0x as anchor clients
- introsA roundtable with MoonShot Guru-connected Series B+ Southeast Asia operators who need blockchain development services and are actively evaluating vendor partnerships
- positioningA dinner for founders who've published Yuga Labs or Story Protocol case studies to workshop how to turn client logos into enterprise inbound and differentiate from generic dev shops
- hiringA happy hour for senior Solidity and blockchain engineers in the Web3 developer community where Syntax can pitch its open-source GitHub work and a founding-team-level role
- tacticalA dinner for operator-angels who converted early-stage screening experience — like Rowan Innovation Venture Fund-style committee roles — into formal AngelList syndicates, to map the exact steps and LP sourcing playbook
- tacticalA build-in-public roundtable for Web3 founders who've shipped open-source templates or tooling to GitHub to attract developer talent and establish technical credibility alongside client work
- positioningA dinner for bootstrapped or lightly-funded blockchain and AI dev-services founders who've crossed a $10M+ revenue milestone to compare go-to-market positioning and investor narrative strategies