Miko Matsumura Founder Evercoin/Partner Gumi Cryptos/Venture Partner BitBull Capital BitBull is a cryptocurrency fund-of-funds. He is also an advisor to Arrington XRP Capital. He is a token holder in FileCoin, Brave, CIVIC, Propy, Polymath and an investor in Lyft. As chief Evangelist for the Java Language and Platform he participated in the first wave of the Internet, and is now fully engaged in Internet of value. As a 25 year operating exec in Silicon Valley, he has raised over $50 million in venture capital for Open Source startups and over $250M in ICO capital. He currently advises cryptocurrency startups like Naga Group ($50M ICO Stock Trading), Playkey ($10.5M Streaming Gaming), Bee Token ($15M, Decentralized AirBnB), Celsius ($50M Ether Lending), Wala (African Cryptobanking), Lottery.com (Online Lottery), Millenium ESports (ESport Gaming), Refereum ($30M Gamer Affiliate Marketing), Pundi X ($35M Payments), WiFiCoin, Guardian Circle (Decentralized Global 911 Emergency Services), Blockchain Terminal ($30M Bloomberg for Crypto) 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 cryptocurrency and blockchain events.
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Security Tokens Disrupting Venture Capital
DISCUSSION: Miko Matsumura Founder Evercoin/Partner Gumi Cryptos/Venture Partner BitBull Capital; Ben Narasin Venture Partner NEA; Kendrick Nguyen, Founder/CEO Republic; Pierre Wolff VP Tierion; MODERATOR: Mark Albertson, Silicon Valley journalist
Walking through an ERC20 Contract #erc20contractbreakdown
You may have purchased tokens from an exchange but what does that mean? What happens when you transfer coins from an exchange to your wallet? We’ll walk through the code behind ERC20 tokens. This is a technical session, but will certainly help anyone take the abstraction out of crypto.
Pavan Katepalli, Adjunct Instructor UC Berkeley He resides in San Francisco where he teaches data analytics and web development at UC Berkeley, creates decentralized applications and plays in the San Francisco Football League. Pavan entered into the cryptocurrency space in 2013 and has worked and programmed with renowned core bitcoin developer, Jimmy Song. In 2014, Pavan co-founded and was CTO of INRTracker.com and raised $100k in seed funding from Rodger Ford, Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year and Co-Founder of Reliantheart Inc, a biotech company in Houston, Texas leveraging NASA technology to replace the left ventricle of the heart. In 2015, Pavan co-founded a Series A stage Technology Company that has raised 30 million dollars of venture funding and has expanded internationally. Before that Pavan led an elite team of developers at MediaMath, a leader in the ad tech space to put in technology systems to scale the $300 million dollar company towards an inevitable billion dollar IPO. Pavan has a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Rutgers University. Shortly after he was a speaker for TedX.
Vilmar Grüttner Leader Labbs, Banco do Brasil #bankinnovations
Vilmar Grüttner Leader Labbs, Banco do Brasil, a Fortune Top 150 company. Labbs is the digital innovation initiative of Banco do Brasil. In less than two years, Labbs grew into an internationally-recognized benchmark for their award-winning innovation and entrepreneurship program. During his 17+year career in financial services, Vilmar was also Head of Digital Strategy, Head of Product for Agribusiness Finance and led initiatives in Strategy, IT and Controlling. His educational background includes a BS and an MSc in Engineering, and also the Stanford GSB Executive Program.