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Nicola covers crypto and equity investments in Infra/Defi/NFT/GameFi sectors. Prior to YZi Labs, she had 3 years consulting and venture investment experience covering crypto, tech and TMT sectors.
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Badkidsfly
Badkidsfly is a founding partner of Orthogonal Labs and was previously investment director of Binance Labs.
David Shuttleworth
David Shuttleworth is a Research Partner at Anagram, where he is responsible for leading early-stage investment and liquid token fund strategies and providing specialized advice to portfolio companies on token design and more. Previously, David was Director of Token Engineering at Binance Labs and ConsenSys. He holds an undergraduate degree from Temple University and a Master of Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK.
Cathy Dou
Cathy Dou is the Incubation Operations Lead at YZi Labs. She graduated from Sichuan University and National University of Singapore.
Jing Mai
Jing Mai is Head of Portfolio and Ecosystem at HashKey Capital and previously served as Head of Portfolio Management at Binance Labs. He graduated from Columbia University.
Jane He
Jane He is a General Partner at YZi Labs and was previously an analyst at Barclays and COO of Apeiron Capital. Since graduating from Stanford GSB, Jane has a strong track record in biotech and medtech, actively pursuing disruptive opportunities at the intersection of AI and biotech. Her expertise spans cancer therapies, gene editing, metabolic treatments, and AI-driven biotech solutions, bringing a visionary approach to investing.
Ricky Wang
Ricky Wang works on investments at YZi Labs, and is a former Director of the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, Head of BD at Cyber, a Former Pro of Clash Royale (2017-2018), and host of the podcast The Story of Web3. He has a B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Geis School of Business.
Chase Guo
Chase Guo is the Co-Founder of Sleek and Molecule. Previously, he was the Investment Director at Binance Labs.
Daniel Machlup
Daniel Machlup is the founder and CEO of FortyTwo and previously worked at Binance Labs, Menlo Ventures, and Berkeley Haas. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
Batuhan Dasgin
Batuhan Dasgin is a director of the Celestia Foundation and was previously co-head of Binance Labs and Head of Business Development at CoinMarketCap.
Teck Chia
Teck Chia is a Head of Gnosis Builders & GP of Factor and a former partner at Binance Labs. Teck Chia was previously a partner at Binance Labs. He is a serial entrepreneur, having founded Dimension.ai, Papers.ai, HashTrust, OpenAppMkt, and others. Previously, he was a product manager at Facebook. Teck graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Computer science.
