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Traditional VCs get gun shy when the markets turn, but the partners at Gumi Cryptos just keep moving forward and looking for compelling innovation in the space. Today we interviewed Evan Mair to find out what it is like in today's bear market for crypto and DeFi. We discuss: Evan's background and how he fulfilled a dream he had since he was a child to become a VC How they are more about innovation than just investing in a theme How they look at investments Their investing process Why pitch decks and pitching are important for all projects Their most recent bets in cool new protocols about to come online How they structure deals and how that models out for tokens vs. equity and much much more. Project Name: Gumi Cryptos Project URL: https://www.gumi-cryptos.com/ Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/GumiCryptos Guest Name: Evan Mair Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/ETM612 This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/missiondefi/support
Rui Zhang, CFA, CPA, Co-founder & Managing Partner of gumi Cryptos Capital. Rui co-founded gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC) at the beginning of 2018. Through gCC, he invested in the early rounds of companies and protocols including OpenSea, Qredo, YGG, 1Inch, Agoric, Celsius, etc. Recently he launched $110million gCC Fund II, continuously investing in the early stage blockchain and crypto sector. Before gCC, Rui led the global investment of gumi Group, investing in gaming, social media, VR&AR markets, with successful investments including inXile (acquired by Microsoft), Beat Games (via VR Fund, acquired by Facebook), Theta Network, etc. Rui also had his successful entrepreneurship experience before getting into VC industry. After about 7 years banking and consulting firm experience in his early career, he co- founded Zenith Group Holdings, which successfully exited via acquisition. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/crypto-hipster-podcast/support
Rui Zhang, CFA, CPA, Co-founder & Managing Partner of gumi Cryptos Capital. Rui co-founded gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC) at the beginning of 2018. Through gCC, he invested in the early rounds of companies and protocols including OpenSea, Qredo, YGG, 1Inch, Agoric, Celsius, etc. Recently he launched $110million gCC Fund II, continuously investing in the early stage blockchain and crypto sector. Before gCC, Rui led the global investment of gumi Group, investing in gaming, social media, VR&AR markets, with successful investments including inXile (acquired by Microsoft), Beat Games (via VR Fund, acquired by Facebook), Theta Network, etc. Rui also had his successful entrepreneurship experience before getting into VC industry. After about 7 years banking and consulting firm experience in his early career, he co- founded Zenith Group Holdings, which successfully exited via acquisition. Jamil Hasan is a crypto and blockchain focused podcast host at the Irish Tech News and spearheads our weekend content “The Crypto Corner” where he interviews founders, entrepreneurs and global thought leaders. Prior to his endeavors into the crypto-verse in July 2017, Jamil built an impressive career as a data, operations, financial, technology and business analyst and manager in Corporate America, including twelve years at American International Group and its related companies. Since entering the crypto universe, Jamil has been an advisor, entrepreneur, investor and author. His books “Blockchain Ethics: A Bridge to Abundance” (2018) and “Re-Generation X” (2020) not only discuss the benefits of blockchain technology, but also capture Jamil's experience on how he has transitioned from being a loyal yet downsized former corporate employee to a self sovereign individual. With over one hundred podcasts under his belt since he joined our team in February 2021, and with four years of experience both managing his own crypto portfolio and providing crypto guidance and counsel to select clients, Jamil continues to seek opportunities to help others navigate this still nascent industry. Jamil's primary focus outside of podcast hosting is helping former corporate employees gain the necessary skills and vision to build their own crypto portfolios and create wealth for the long-term.
幻冬舎の暗号資産(仮想通貨)/ブロックチェーン専門メディア「あたらしい経済 https://www.neweconomy.jp/ 」がおくる、Podcast番組です。平日毎日最新ニュース解説をお届けします。 ○解説したニュース ・【取材】Web3特化ファンド「gumi Cryptos Capital Fund II」、約130億円資金調達 ・LayerZeroが約165億円調達、a16zやFTXら出資 ・FTX、STEPNの「Green Metaverse Token(GMT)」現物取り扱いへ ・フォビジャパン、「シンボル(XYM)」対象者付与の日程発表 ・クラーケングローバルでALCX、BOND、JASMY、MASK、RNDR、SPELL、TRIBE、UMA上場へ ・NFT対応テレビ開発、サムスンとニフティーゲートウェイ提携 ・NFTサッカーゲーム「Sorare」、北米メジャーリーグサッカーと提携 ・国際ホッケー連盟がNFTマーケットプレイス立ち上げへ、SIMBAと提携 ・貿易情報連携のトレードワルツ、製品版リリースへ ・マイクロストラテジーがビットコイン担保に約250億円調達、シルバーゲート銀行ローン利用で ○番組スポンサー この番組は株式会社フィナンシェの提供で送りします。 ・株式会社フィナンシェ 「FiNANCiE(フィナンシェ)」は、スポーツチームやエンタメプロジェクト、DAOなどのトークンを購入して支援ができる新しいクラウドファンディング・サービス。サッカーJリーグ、野球、バスケ、などのプロスポーツチームをはじめ、映画やアイドル、インフルエンサーなど100以上のプロジェクトのトークンがフィナンシェで購入できます。さらにトークン購入者はプロジェクトに応じたキャンペーン参加やNFTなどの特典も。ぜひiOSやAndroidで「FiNANCiE」のスマホアプリを入れて、新たな応援体験を味わってください。「あなたの夢が、みんなの財産になる」FiNANCiE →App Store(対応OS:iOS 13.0以上) →Google Play(対応OS:Android 6.0以上) apps.apple.com/jp/app/financie/id1470196162 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.financie.ichiba ○関連リンク ニュースの詳細や、アーカイブやその他の記事はこちらから www.neweconomy.jp/
In this interview, David Sneider the Co-Founder of Lit Protocol, and Ivan Kan from Crowdcreate discuss how Web3 is changing the internet and how NFTs will unlock cross-chain interoperability. How will marketers and users have to adapt to a decentralized future, and how the Web2 technology stack is being re-written covering identity, data streams, and file storage. Lit Protocol is an ambitious project aimed to provide decentralized access control for connected experiences and can be used by DAOs, companies, and creators to use tokens, NFTs, and blockchain identity as access keys. In January of 2022, Lit Protocol raised $2.2M from Sfermion, Collab Currency, Kleiner Perkins, Gumi Cryptos, and Crowdcreate. Highlights: 0:02:07 - Access Control Protocol Enabled by NFTs 0:04:46 - What is Decentralized Ownership? 0:07:27 - Adding Utility to NFTs 0:09:53 - Enabling Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) 0:12:21 - NFTs will unlock content and experiences in the Metaverse 0:14:46 - What are big brands like Adidas doing with NFTs? 0:16:47 - How Lit Protocol will fit into Web3 0:21:49 - Growth Marketing for Web3 0:25:10 - How Do Our Listeners Follow Your Story -- The goal is to share wisdom and insights from the smartest people in the room with you, so you can make more informed decisions in your business. Also, check out our website crowdcreate.us for the business insights we've learned along the way. As a reminder, nothing said on this podcast is a solicitation to buy or sell any security or token, or to make any financial decisions. -- Crowdcreate is a one-of-a-kind growth marketing service used by businesses to accelerate their investor funding and influencer sales. What makes us different? Our track record of raising over $130 million dollars across 80+ successful client projects. We're always on the cutting edge of marketing techniques and have experience in multiple industries from technology and real estate, to blockchain and consumer products. We've built a network of investors, influencers, and strategic partnerships over the past 5 years to help businesses grow. Book a call to learn more about what we can do for your business - https://www.crowdcreate.us/
History and Future of DeFi 170 billion in TVL across all the all the different chains. We've come a long way in just one year and even more since since 2017, when a lot of these projects initially started kicking off. I think what's what's important to note is that this has been an iterative process, and in crypto things happen very quickly. So it's been great to invest over the last three years at Gumi cryptos Capital on work with founders who are in this iterative process of improving how either tokens are distributed, how networks are bootstrapped, how talent is sourced and everything in between how DAOs are formed. And so this whole DeFi, boom, you could call it kind of kicked off back in, in June 2020, when compound started the first liquidity mining program, although some people credit synthetix was before. But compound was the first one to really popularize this, back in the day. And since then, we've seen this exponential growth that's been super exciting. And I wrote an article I think, in October 2020, on this distribution mechanism, called the ownership experience, and how that will impact users over the next decade and beyond. How instead of focusing on building a nice UI, you essentially are focusing on how what is the best way to distribute ownership of these protocols that will be user owned and operated in the future. And I think that's a trend we will continue to see. And that's what's leading to this explosive growth in DeFi. In terms of what's really exciting me now, it's the activity in the sidechain layer two space. Essentially, you've got in the last couple of months, you've had a couple networks launch that are starting to gain traction, you've got optimism, and Arbitrum, on the optimistic roll upside, and you've got a starknet and Starkware on the Zk rollup side. And just a high level if people are watching and don't know what these roll ups are. A roll up essentially aggregates transactions that executes them and stores most of the data off chain, and then stores a little bit of the data of the proof of that transaction on the main chain. So optimism, and Arbitrum use optimistic roll ups, which essentially assume that the transactions are correct. And they're essentially it's essentially secured by incentives. Whereas something like Starknet or Starkware zk roll ups, which is essentially enforced by math (zero-knowledge proofs), so there's different ways to have these enforcement mechanisms. But the nice thing is you essentially, get scalability on the second layer while still inheriting the underlying security of layer one. So naturally, a lot of users are migrating to these platforms, including myself, and using the applications built there like AAve and maker DAO and a couple of others are on arbitrum. From you've got synthetic on optimism, I think uni swap is on both at this point, and tons of applications are being built there. And you can see the Gas fees are a lot less, but you're still, you know, inheriting that underlying security. So people are a lot more comfortable moving there. There are other chains like Matic that are super interesting now called polygon, that, that have a little bit different security trade-off. But because of that have a lot lower cost. You also have different blockchains, like Solana that are kind of popping up and offering new DeFi experiences and attracting TVL, but also have similar similar trade-offs on performance and security.
Rui Zhang, CFA, CICPA, is the CoFounder/Managing Partner of gumi Cryptos Capital. Mr. Zhang has both Economics and Computer Science educational background, and has two years banking and four years consulting firm experience in his early career. In late 2013, Mr. Zhang co-founded Zenith Group Holdings in Shanghai, China (a virtual idle technology development and operation company), and raised Seed and Series A rounds for the company, which was later successfully acquired by Bilibili. Since May 2016, Mr. Zhang has served as the Vice President of gumi Inc and took charge of all overseas investments of gumi Group, including the gaming investment in US and Europe, VR Fund and the VR/AR incubation programs in Seoul and Helsinki. At the beginning of 2018, he took charge of and succeeded in co-founding and raised gCC Fund I.
How does a crypto fund that is $30mil in size land the hottest crypto projects, such as OpenSea, Theta and Celsius, before or at the same time as the giants like Andreessen Horowitz. In this episode, I had the pleasure to chat with Miko Matsumura, GP of gumi Cryptos Capital and a veteran Valley entrepreneur and investor, to discuss and dissect the secret behind its success and unicorn investments. Miko also hosts his own show MikoBits. Do check it out https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcvr_fLs0J9LEvK-BqLkiBA
Miko Matsumura, General Partner, Gumi Cryptos Capital, sits down with Adam Leon from REIMAGINE 2020 to talk about the concepts surrounding DeFi, the impact of decentralization and insights on how to navigate this industry. Twitter Miko Matsumura: https://twitter.com/mikojava Twitter Gumi Cryptos Capital: https://twitter.com/cryptosgumi Facebook Gumi Cryptos Capital: https://www.facebook.com/gumicryptos Website Gumi Cryptos Capital: https://www.gumi-cryptos.com/
Miko Matsumura is a General Partner with Gumi Cryptos, a US $30M venture capital fund focused early stage blockchain startups and a Venture Partner with BitBull Capital, a cryptocurrency fund-of-funds. He is also an advisor to Arrington XRP Capital. He has been a keynote speaker at dozens of blockchain conferences around the world. He is also cofounder of crypto exchange Evercoin, Miko participated in the first wave of the Internet as chief Evangelist for the Java Language and Platform at Sun Microsystems and is now fully engaged in Internet of value. With 25 years of enterprise software marketing experience in Silicon Valley, he has raised over $50 million in venture capital for Open Source startups such as Gradle, Hazelcast and has participated in multiple exits including INFRAVIO, webMethods, Db4O. He has invested in open source money, advising successful startups like Celsius ($2B in loans), Pundi X (global point of sale devices), Refereum ($30M Gamer Affiliate Marketing), WiFiCoin (wifi Sharing), Guardian Circle (Decentralized Global 911 Emergency Services) and Hub (Decentralizing Professional Social Networking). He is also an LP with Focus Ventures, a firm with over $800M under management, 9 IPOs and 44 exits. He holds an Master’s degree in Neuroscience from Yale University where he worked on abstract computational neural networks. He’s leads the Crypto Underground meetup in San Francisco and is a well known speaker at many bitcoin and blockchain events. Website: https://www.miko.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikomatsumura/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikocryptos Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikojava --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/geeksofthevalley/support
***This podcast was originally released on 4/18/19 as a recording from our TF3 Conference in March 2019. This was one of our top episodes of 2019 and had some interesting predictions some of which played out.*** Featuring Anthony Pompliano of Morgan Creek Capital & Off the Chain Podcast, Alex Shin of Hashed, and Rui Zhang of Gumi Cryptos This episode is a live recording from TF3, our most recent TF Blockchain Conference on March 28, 2019, where we host a panel titled “Venture Capital Outlook on Blockchain”. Our panel features Alex Shin, Founding Partner Of Hashed, Ray Zhang, Managing Director of Gumi Cryptos, and Anthony Pompliano Founder of Morgan Creek Digital Assets and the Off the Chain Podcast. We discuss venture’s outlook on blockchain, how they look at deals and make investments, and interesting scenarios with enterprises who have announced cryptocurrencies. Our TF attendees loved this candid panel at TF3 and I hope you feel the same way when you listen in.
仮想通貨・ブロックチェーンに特化した幻冬舎のメディア「あたらしい経済 https://www.neweconomy.jp/ 」がおくる、ラジオ番組です。毎日最新ニュース解説とコラムをお届けします。 ・gumi CryptosとOntology Foundationが戦略的パートナーシップに関する契約を締結 ・double jump.tokyo株式会社が、ブロックチェーンゲーム開発企業/個人に「開発・エコシステム構築・ファイナンス・人材育成」支援を行うプログラム「MCH+」の提供を発表 ・株式会社リミックスポイントが東京大学発AI・ブロックチェーン技術企業「Daisy」へ出資 ・カナダGraph Blockchainが韓国国土交通部と提携し交通データの管理にブロックチェーンを活用 ニュースの詳細や、アーカイブやその他の記事はこちらから https://www.neweconomy.jp/
Facebook Coin. Facebook enters the crypto space. Does that mean I can put this podcast back on my resume? Does it validate the space? Is Bitcoin threatened? What does this mean for alt-coins? Wait, did I just say alt-coins? Miko Matsumura and Tegan Kline discuss and debate the potential impacts of Mark Zuckerberg and his country, I mean company, stepping into the world of cryptocurrency with Facebook Libra. 3:00 Miko's definition of Facebook coin 8:00 Summary of the problem that Facebook is claiming to solve 14:00 The risks of Facebook as the core player as reckless as they are 28:00 How Facebook Libra works, the basket, the consortium 41:00 Open Source money Guests: Miko Matsumura http://miko.com is a General Partner with Gumi Cryptos, a US $30M venture capital fund focused early stage blockchain startups and a Venture Partner with BitBull Capital, a cryptocurrency fund-of-funds. He is also an advisor to Arrington XRP Capital. He has been a keynote speaker at dozens of blockchain conferences around the world. He is also cofounder of crypto exchange Evercoin. Tegan Kline heads up International Business Development and Investor Relations for Orchid, where they are working to open up the internet to everyone, everywhere. Prior to Orchid, Tegan was a blockchain technology consultant, helping leaders and innovators connect more deeply with stakeholders across the blockchain ecosystem. Tegan's professional experience has been with Fortune 500's and startups, most recently as Executive VP of a patent marketplace powered by blockchain, analyzed by AI. She began her career in Investment Banking at BAML and, prior to discovering blockchain, worked in Sales and Trading at Barclays. Tegan is working to redistribute resources and income using blockchain and AI with Nature 2.0, Co-Founder of Blockchain Code of Ethics, Head of the U.S. for Triangles, a group that supports female founders and Ambassador to Buckminster Fuller Institute, helping to make the world work for 100% of us. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tegan-kline-17306b60 https://twitter.com/theklineventure Facebook Libra Whitepaper: https://libra.org/en-US/white-paper/ https://developers.libra.org/docs/state-machine-replication-paper https://libra.org/en-US/about-currency-reserve/#the_reserve https://libra.org/en-US/permissionless-blockchain/#overview
It’s All Happening is back from a self-imposed hiatus with the genius of Miko Matsumura. Miko goes beyond his role as tech titan and takes you into a profound vision where technology, consciousness, spirituality and the human condition all dance together in a divinely orchestrated goal for the future. Our conversation covered the implications of the blockchain, why the end user matters and how to make sense of economic chaos. Keeping up with Miko is a task, let me tell you. He is a big brain, big heart human that is one of the finest thinkers around today. Intro Rant – Heartbreak, The Grateful Dead and being hurt Sponsored by – Sunrise CBD – Conscious CBD, Crafted for Wellness at Honest Prices Miko Matsumura is a General Partner with Gumi Cryptos, a US $30M venture capital fund focused early stage blockchain startups and a Venture Partner with BitBull Capital, a cryptocurrency fund-of-funds. He is also an advisor to Arrington XRP Capital. He has been a keynote speaker at dozens of blockchain conferences around the world. He is also cofounder of crypto exchange Evercoin.
Featuring Viktor Radchenko Founder of Trust Wallet (acquired by Binance), Kristy-Leigh Minehan CTO of Core Scientific, Kory Hoang Founder of Stably, and Rui Zhang Managing Director of Gumi Cryptos. This episode is a compilation of backstage interviews from our 3rd, TF Blockchain Conference, which took place on March 28, 2019 in Seattle. We have divided our backstage interviews over two podcast. In part two you’ll hear interviews with Viktor Radchenko Founder of Trust Wallet (acquired by Binance), Kristy-Leigh Minehan CTO of Core Scientific, Kory Hoang Founder of Stably, and Rui Zhang Managing Director of Gumi Cryptos.
Miko Matsumura - Pete and I had a fascinating conversation with crypto pioneer, founder of EverCoin Exchange and General Partner of Gumi Cryptos, Miko Matsumura with whom we met up at Start Engine Summit. Since our first time visiting Start Engine Summit event last year, the blockchain market has changed significantly fromfast-movingg ICOs bringing in millions for yet to be built technology platforms to one that is now adhering to a more regulatory value set in the form of STOs (Security Token Offerings). #podcast #crypto #Blockchain #Malta #StartEngineSummit