Fabric Ventures

Anil Hansjee combines engineering, banking and Google's EMEA corporate development experience to focus on regulation-forward European digital money—notably stablecoins and programmable payments—and champions investor technical literacy.

Max Mersch co-founded one of the first European funds dedicated to crypto-native, token-based networks in 2012 and was an early external backer of Decentraland at the friends-and-family stage.

Michael Jackson is Director at Fabric Ventures, focusing on fintech and crypto investments. Previously, he served as COO at Skype during its early growth phase and worked on European telecommunications policy in the early 2000s. He currently sits on boards at several companies including AXA and Volvo Cars, and leads investments in decentralized infrastructure projects.

Richard Muirhead, a former infrastructure entrepreneur who built and exited multiple companies, applies a builder-first lens to technical teams while educating on Web3–AI agent intersections and cultivating founder communities.

Alain Falys is a partner at M&A Arts Sàrl and a contemporary art collector and investor. Since 2000, he has worked to connect teams, investors, and technologies to develop products and services for industries with limited digital infrastructure. He is also a fintech founder.

Camilla McFarland blends execution-heavy experience scaling operations at web3 studio Serotonin, product marketing leadership at ConsenSys, and Bridgewater Associates know-how to craft go-to-market strategies integrating token design and product launches.

Christina Frankopan pairs her Senior Consultant role at Lazard's Financial Services and Technology Group with venture partnership, applying Protozoa CEO/co‑founder company‑building experience to bridge traditional finance and crypto for founders.

Steven Waterhouse is founder and general partner at Nazaré Ventures, an early-stage fund focused on AI systems and infrastructure. He holds a PhD in AI from Cambridge and has founded and exited multiple companies, including RPX, which went public. His prior experience includes early partnerships at Pantera Capital and Fabric, along with engineering roles at NASA and Sun Microsystems, and he co-founded Orchid Protocol, a privacy-focused project.

Anna Yuan is the founder of Perena, a stablecoin-focused platform that has processed $2 billion in volume since launch. She is a member at Hampton and has previously worked on products designed to improve financial accessibility and capital efficiency.

Audrey Rouach Baverel is a Partner at 50 Partners focused on Web3 ventures. She has expertise in tax, accounting, and corporate finance, with a concentration on digital and blockchain-related projects and cryptoassets.

Danielle Walsh is Ecosystem Lead at Fabric Ventures, a Web3 and AI-focused venture fund. She has over seven years of experience in marketing, brand strategy, and communications, spanning roles in policy and strategic communications before transitioning to work with early-stage founders on brand development and go-to-market strategy. At Fabric Ventures, she leads brand, events, ecosystem, and platform initiatives.

Eleanor Hudson is an Operating Partner at Fabric Ventures, where she leads capital formation, business development, platform strategy, and marketing for the early-stage venture firm investing in frontier technology across global markets. Previously, she spent three years at Connect Ventures developing specialized platform offerings. Hudson co-launched R[3]sidency, a deeptech accelerator program in partnership with Coinbase, Animoca, Base, and Founders Factory.

Ian Emerson is a Venture Partner at Fabric Ventures who invests in Media & Entertainment. He holds a chemistry degree and an MBA from Imperial College Business School. His investment focus includes founders building new forms of networks and digital organizations.

Jorge Mendez is a web developer at Cynda Media Lab with a background in computer science and experience in freelance web development.

Julien Bouteloup is Founder and CEO of Stake Capital Group, an investment firm focused on infrastructure for AI compute, cryptography, and decentralized systems. He holds advanced degrees in electrical engineering from institutions in France and the United States, and has been building technology companies since 2010. His prior work includes founding Stake DAO and serving on core teams at Curve, along with board positions at companies including Zama, Morpho, and Backed Finance (acquired by Kraken), with a portfolio spanning over 200 investments across early-stage deep technology ventures.

Julien Thevenard, an engineer whose widely cited technical research on tokenized ownership and decentralized oracles shapes his founder education and $100k–$5M focus on crypto-native infrastructure and token economics and design.

Julien Thévenard joined Fabric Ventures' investment team in 2018 and works as a Senior Investment Associate. His focus areas include Open Finance, along with token and incentive design. Before Fabric, he worked as an engineer at Shell and Airbus, and he holds an MEng from Imperial College.

Luis Cuende is cofounder and president of CitizenX, a platform for identifying and funding communities that welcome citizens. He previously cofounded Aragon, which grew to over $30 billion in assets under management, and maintains an angel investment portfolio of more than 25 startups.

Sid Shekhar is founder of Ask Gina, an AI platform that enables users to describe financial strategies in plain language and deploy automated trading and investment agents across multiple blockchain networks and exchanges. He previously co-founded TokenAnalyst, a blockchain analytics company acquired by Coinbase in 2020, where he subsequently led the blockchain research team for four years before departing in 2024. Ask Gina is backed by Prelude and Coinbase Ventures.

Solenne Niedercorn-Desouches is the founder of Finscale Media, a platform featuring interviews with senior decision-makers in European finance including bankers, venture capitalists, fintech founders, regulators, and C-level executives. With 25 years of experience in the financial sector, including roles at UBS and Lombard Odier, she established the venture to connect organizational leaders with this audience. The Finscale podcast has accumulated over one million streams across 375+ episodes since 2020, ranking in the top 1% globally on Listen Notes, with 50% of its audience comprising C-level executives and financial decision-makers.

Zoe Guardiola-Abbots is an Operations Associate at Fabric Ventures while pursuing a psychology degree at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her academic interests include developmental clinical psychology and organizational psychology.