Blockchain Capital was founded in 2013 with the mission of helping entrepreneurs build world-class companies and projects based on blockchain technology – providing founders with the tools they need to succeed: capital, domain expertise, partnerships, recruiting and strategy. Blockchain Capital is one of the earliest and most active venture investors in the blockchain industry and has partnered with some of the best founders in crypto since its inception. The company invests in both equity and crypto assets and is a multi-stage investor. Blockchain Capital believes that blockchain technology holds the promise to disrupt legacy businesses and create whole new markets and business models, and invests in founders who want to leverage blockchain technology to change the world in profound ways.
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What is "the soul" of a company? Our Marketing Director, Enara Nazarova, shares her thinking on brand building in venture capital, along with an invitation to join our marketing team to help tell the story of our founders and firm. https://lnkd.in/dEVWv7KV
What is "the soul" of a company? Our Marketing Director, Enara Nazarova, shares her thinking on brand building in venture capital, along with an invitation to join our marketing team to help tell the story of our founders and firm. https://lnkd.in/dEVWv7KV
We are thrilled to welcome Enara Nazarova as Marketing Director. She joins BCAP to define the firm's brand strategy, scale the marketing function, and amplify the vision of the founders we back. Enara brings a decade of experience at the intersection of culture and technology, and an instinct for how to move great ideas from the frontier into the mainstream. Working across event production and the performing arts, at festivals like SXSW, FORM, and Tech Open Air, she developed an early understanding of how ideas find their moment in culture. She went on to co-found a coding academy, help scale WeWork's coding bootcamps across the UK and the US, and build learning communities around people shaping what is next. As her second venture, she founded an agency that advised brands and fashion houses like L'Oréal Groupe, Christian Dior, Pernod Ricard, and Iris Van Herpen on brand transformation. Enara has a rare ability to see the soul of a company. Rather than reaching for templated playbooks, she studied us from the inside out and built a strategy on that foundation. Her approach is shaped by a belief that with integrity and imagination, technology can positively transform how we live. At BCAP, we share that conviction and have spent more than a decade backing founders reimagining the architecture of markets and networks. We're excited to tell those stories with the care and intention they were built with, under her leadership.
We are proud to announce the promotion of Jason Di Piazza to the position of Operating Partner. Jason will continue to carry out his responsibilities as Head of Capital Formation, where he has been a crucial member of the team since joining in March 2022. Jason brings nearly two decades of experience advising institutional investors to Blockchain Capital, including 15 years at BlackRock and a tenure at Farallon Capital Management, applying that background to the challenge of translating crypto complexity into frameworks that pension funds, endowments, foundations, and family offices can assess with rigor. His work bridges BCAP's technical depth with institutional clarity, helping limited partners assess blockchain as a strategically distinct asset class alongside other alternative asset classes, private equity, and venture debt. Jason's promotion to Operating Partner is a testament to his leadership, impact, and commitment to the firm's culture and long-term success. We are excited to see him continue to grow with us and are confident that his expanded role will further strengthen the firm and the ecosystem we serve.
Huge congratulations to Securitize on announcing its plan to go public via SPAC with Cantor Fitzgerald at a $1.25B valuation. We're proud to be their first customer, Seed + Series A lead investor, and early believer in the tokenization of real-world assets. Excited to see the leader in tokenization enter its next chapter 👏
Securitize, the leading tokenization platform, to become a public company at $1.25B valuation via business combination with Cantor Equity Partners II. Tokenize the World.
We're excited to announce we led Polymarket's pre-election Series B. Learn more about our thesis from General Partner Aleks Larsen ↓
Modern society has an information problem: the more we have at our fingertips, the harder it is to tell what’s true. As information diets get noisier, we need new ways to find consensus. That’s why prediction markets are so powerful; they turn information into tradable assets, filtering through sensationalism and surfacing truth through a new set of incentives. A little over a year ago, months before the 2024 US presidential election, Blockchain Capital led a $55M financing round for Polymarket, the first prediction market platform to get mainstream adoption. Since then, the platform has grown into a leading prediction market, correctly calling the 2024 U.S. presidential election outcomes and driving ~$11B in Q4 2024 trading volume. Unsurprisingly, the traditional finance world has taken notice, and several days ago, Polymarket announced a watershed deal with ICE, the parent company of the NYSE, that sees ICE investing $2B in Polymarket at a $9B post-money valuation. We had been following Shayne Coplan’s progress for many years, and after getting to know him and his team, we were convinced that Polymarket is a generational company that will redefine how we understand and engage with news. Over time, we believe Polymarket will become part of the fabric of modern media, social networks and financial markets. We’re also excited about its potential to address critical societal problems around information dissemination and improve the quality of online discourse. And above all, we’re incredibly proud of Shayne and his brilliant team and honored to work with them as they unearth the full potential of prediction markets. Read the full article here: