Bison Trails

Fred Ehrsam co-founded Coinbase and later Paradigm, the crypto investment firm he started with Matt Huang in 2018. He stepped back from Paradigm's day-to-day management in 2023 and now serves as its senior advisor while running Nudge, the neurotechnology startup he founded to build non-invasive brain interfaces using focused ultrasound.

Antonio Garcia-Martinez is founder and CEO of AdGrok, which provides software for automating keyword selection and bid management in Google AdWords campaigns.

Dannie Chu founded Foodoro (part of Y Combinator's 2009 class) and previously worked at Pinterest. He is currently founder and chairman of MakersPlace.

Pete Townsend is Founding General Partner of Norio Ventures Fund I, a pre-seed fund focused on onchain finance infrastructure. He has invested in over 40 early-stage companies through Techstars and as an angel investor, served as board chair for regulated cryptocurrency companies for more than seven years, and produced over 300 episodes of the MoneyNeverSleeps podcast. His background includes 20 years in institutional finance and a decade in cryptocurrency and venture capital.

Ryan Nitz is Director of Solutions Architecture at Coinbase, with prior experience at Amazon Web Services. He has worked across startup and enterprise environments on internet computer systems, data streaming, distributed systems, and high-performance software development.

Will Megson held product management roles at Lyft and Groupon.

Ex-Blackstone; listed as Co-Founder & COO on LinkedIn and The Org.

Brian Foster, Global Head of Wholesale at Coinbase and investor in its venture arm, offers a rare institutional-finance and crypto-infrastructure perspective, specializing in crypto-as-a-service, B2B APIs, custody and compliance.

Elena Nadolinski founded Iron Fish in 2018 and currently also works as a product manager on Base at Coinbase. She previously wrote software at Airbnb, Tilt.com, and Microsoft, where she also interned earlier in her career.

LP/advisory network member with experience at DoorDash, Coinbase, and Square.

Ian Mukherjee is a Product Lead at Coinbase working on the Developer Platform's Data Products division. He has eight years of experience building and operating businesses, with prior founding experience in gaming and digital collectibles infrastructure. His background includes developing consumer-facing products and leading multi-disciplinary teams across B2C and B2B contexts.

Member of SCV's CISO Board; serves as CISO at Coinbase.

Associated with the Mochary Method coaching program, Mochary and his coaching team have built relationships with leading venture firms and top founders they coach.

Miles Johnson has spent 15 years working across web stack technologies. He focuses on developer tooling and solutions designed to improve developer productivity.

Sam Harman leads OSE's Deep Tech investment team, overseeing the pipeline, supporting new company creation and guiding portfolio growth, with experience across AI, semiconductors, compute and space. He joined OSE in 2019 after working in management consulting on AI solutions, and holds a first-class master's in PPE from the University of Oxford.

Travis Bloom is a Senior Engineering Manager at Coinbase, leading engineering efforts for the company's political advocacy initiatives and AI financial advisor product. Previously, he was cofounder and CTO of Pawlicy Advisor, with technical expertise in TypeScript, GraphQL, and Next.js.

Protocol specialist at Coinbase and general partner at Credibly Neutral, the $5.5M builder-led pre-seed fund he launched with Lisa Cuesta Bunin to back protocols, infrastructure and crypto SaaS. Previously a protocol specialist at Bison Trails, with earlier stints at ConsenSys and EY.