Maria is a partner on the investment team at Electric Capital. Prior to Electric, Maria was CTO and co-founder of a startup that helped SMBs easily create their supply chains with manufacturers around the world. Prior to that, she worked on search technology at Microsoft, with her features shipped to more than 1 billion devices.Maria received her A.B. in Government from Harvard and M.Eng. in Computer Science from Cornell. Maria is interested in talking to women, minority, and immigrant founders.

Sota is the Founder and CEO of Astar Network. Prior to creating the Smart Contract HUB for WASM + EVM and one of the top Parachains on Polkadot, he was the Director at the Japan Blockchain Association. He is selected Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2022. He was also a task force member of the Trusted Web Council led by the Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan. Prior to that, he worked at Chronicled in San Francisco and was a blockchain researcher at the University of Tokyo.

Wiz is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Spacecadet, the Marketing VC. Launched in 2020, Spacecadet invests generally across all emerging technologies, and boasts Marc Andreesen, Alexis Ohanian, and Chris Dixon amongst its LPs.

Prior to founding Spacecadet, Wiz was a 2x startup founder. He co-founded Rise People in 2011, which was one of the first People and Culture technology platforms. Later in 2016, he co-founded Hazel, which was a feedback and culture app built on top of Slack that was acquired in 2019.

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Brad is a seasoned entrepreneur with several leadership roles under his belt. His entrepreneurial journey began in 2006 when he founded Holdem Properties, a real estate investment company. Later, he served as CEO of Talkable, an industry-leading referral marketing platform. Now, leveraging his extensive web2 expertise, Brad aims to decentralize the web at Unstoppable Domains by utilizing proven web2 strategies to make web3 more accessible.

Unstoppable Domains is making crypto user-friendly by tackling the hassle of long public keys. Think of it as DNS for blockchain addresses. However, they differentiate themselves by issuing user-owned NFT domains that swap out crypto addresses for simple URLs. To Brad and team, it’s all about owning your digital identity and making crypto as simple as possible.

Thea Kaage is the Co-Founder of IoTeX and MachineFi labs. Before co-founding IoTeX in 2017, Jing was the Managing Partner of Sparkland Capital, an early-stage venture fund.