Marvin Liao is an Investor-Operator, executive coach and formal advisor to several large Family Offices. Marvin is a Partner at Rolling Fund Diaspora.vc, Manages the Angel Fund Sukna Global & a Board member at Game Groove Capital, an International Gaming Holding Company. He was previously a Partner at Venture Capital Fund 500 Startups, running the SF based accelerator program as well as investing in Seed stage start ups. He has invested in over 414 Pre-seed & Seed stage startups during the 6 years spent there. Marvin also spent 10.5 years at Yahoo! as an executive with extensive operating experience expanding businesses across Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States in his career at the company. Marvin presently serves on the Investment Committees/Advisory boards of several Venture Capital funds. He also mentors at numerous accelerator programs around the world.
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Rui Zhang, CoFounder/Managing Partner gumi Cryptos Capital
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.
Chris McCann General Partner Proof of Capital #fintech2020
Chris McCann General Partner Proof of Capital, entrepreneur, and community builder. Prior, Chris founded and led the community program at Greylock Partners, a San Francisco based venture capital firm with $3.5 billion under management which led investments in Facebook, LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Coinbase, among others. Chris has an angel portfolio of over twenty investments within the fintech and blockchain verticals including: Binance ($2.8B market cap), Solana (valued at $250M), among others. Before he joined the firm, he was the co-founder of StartupDigest (acquired by Techstars), and was an early advisor for the Thiel Fellowship & StartX at Stanford University. He also created RelayNode, covering the blockchain & fintech sectors and reaches 15,000 entrepreneurs, engineers, and investors on a weekly basis.
FinTech in Europe: EU Finance Director meets FinTech Silicon Valley companies #fintecheu
EU meets FinTech Silicon Valley companies @AngelRush Ventures @Aqaix @Circle @dczd.tech @Earnup @FACERE25 @InCountry @Kieretsu Capital @OFX @Pactum Capital @SF Growth Labs @Sheppard Mullin @SnapCheck @Tipaliti @Token @Zynergy Capital @Identity #fintechEU