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Avalanche founding team member and GP now co-founding The Arena
Credibility
Portfolio Scale · 77th percentile
- Active GP / fund manager at Something New, a current investment fund.
- Publicly identified as an active investor across multiple platforms and investment roles.
- Approximately 7 years of investing experience, starting as Investment Manager at JD Capital in 2018.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current co-founder of The Arena, a consumer social-fi app on Avalanche.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)The Arena was co-founded with other team members.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Part of the founding team at Ava Labs (Avalanche), joining when the team was 5 people.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)The Arena has raised $2M in total funding.
Investor score
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Publicly identified as an active investor across multiple platforms and investment roles.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Approximately 7 years of investing experience, starting as Investment Manager at JD Capital in 2018.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Active GP / fund manager at Something New, a current investment fund.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Investor at Cluster Capital, a recognized venture capital firm.
What you likely need
You're a crypto-native operator and investor with deep roots in the Avalanche ecosystem and a current co-founder role at The Arena. Your profile spans early-stage company building, family office CIO work, and GP-level investing — making you well-suited for events that bridge Web3 founders with institutional capital. Connecting with other multi-hat operators who balance building and investing would be especially high-value right now.
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.
- introsA Web3 founder dinner with other Avalanche/Solana ecosystem builders to share go-to-market playbooks for consumer crypto apps.
- fundraisingA GP roundtable for emerging crypto fund managers to compare deal sourcing strategies and LP relationship tactics.
- tacticalA tactical workshop on scaling consumer crypto apps past 300k users to 1M+ with other SocialFi and DeFi founders.
- introsA family office CIO networking dinner to exchange digital asset allocation frameworks and crypto custody best practices.
- hiringA Cornell alumni founder happy hour to recruit early engineering and product talent for The Arena's next growth phase.
- fundraisingAn Avalanche ecosystem LP introduction dinner connecting early Avalanche builders with crypto-native family offices and institutional LPs.
- positioningA positioning workshop for operator-investors on building a public brand that attracts both deal flow and co-founders simultaneously.
