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James Hutchins

Investor

Co-Founder and General Partner at NIV

New York City Metropolitan Area

About

Co-founder and General Partner at NIV, leading the firm's research efforts. A full-time crypto investor since 2018, he was previously Head of Research at Coatue Management and holds an AB in Economics from Harvard.

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James Hutchins @0xhutch

We are making three key hires @NorthIslandVC 1) VC Associate to find and back the best startups in crypto. 2) Equity Research Analyst to find the best public markets opportunities, particularly in equities. 3) Software Engineer to work with our stellar CTO on building

Mar 10, 2026 Β· β™₯ 93 Β· ⇄ 1

James Hutchins @0xhutch

However, zkTLS will truly be AI Data's "fracking moment." zkTLS enables us to programmatically unlock silo'd data that is stuck within walled gardens and behind paywalls. It will release the hidden half of data that is sitting unused on the internet

Dec 18, 2024 Β· β™₯ 4

James Hutchins @0xhutch

Everyone knows about synthetic data and reinforcement learning and is expending an enormous amount of energy on it. It will certainly enable the creation of very useful data to fine-tune models like it did with o1

Dec 18, 2024 Β· β™₯ 8

Experience

  1. North Island VenturesCo-Founder, Managing Partnercurrent2020 β€” presentNew York, New York, United States
  2. Digital Assets Data Inc.Board Member2019 β€” 2020
  3. North IslandManaging Director2017 β€” 2020New York, New York
  4. Coatue ManagementHead of Research2016 β€” 2017Greater New York City Area
  5. Coatue ManagementVP, Insights2015 β€” 2016Greater New York City Area
  6. Bedrocket Media VenturesManager of Partnerships2015Greater New York City Area
  7. Coatue ManagementJunior Analyst2014 β€” 2015New York, New York
  8. Coatue ManagementProprietary Research Associate2014New York, New York
  9. Coastal Carolina University Football TeamSenior Defensive Intern2013Conway, South Carolina

Education

  1. Harvard UniversityBachelor's Degree, Economics2008 β€” 2013

Same school

Also attended Harvard University1,171

Alfred LinPartner at Sequoia CapitalChris DixonFounder & Managing Partner of a16z crypto at Andreessen HorowitzSarah TavelVenture Partner at BenchmarkDanny RimerPartner at Index VenturesLaela SturdyManaging Partner at CapitalGRyan IsonoDeal Partner at Felicis Ventures

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Shared employers

Also worked at Digital Assets Data Inc.2

Mark CasadyGeneral Partner and Co-Founder at Vestigo VenturesRyan AlfredManaging Partner at Distributed Global

Also worked at Coatue Management45

Kyle DohertyInvestment Team at General CatalystDamir BecirovicInvestor at Index VenturesElena SakachInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Arielle ZuckerbergGeneral Partner at Long Journey VenturesJessica PascoliniHead of Operations at BURNT ISLAND VENTURESBennett SiegelCo-Founder & General Partner at BA Capital

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Colleagues at NIV

Charles Moran
Chief Operating Officer at NIV
David Hatch
CTO at NIV
Glenn Hutchins
Co-Founder and Chairman at NIV
Greg Rosenthal
Principal at NIV
Mario Stefanidis
Senior Analyst at NIV
Michael McCann
Research Analyst at NIV
Rob Williams
Investment Analyst at NIV
Sam Andrew
Director of Research at NIV

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Glenn Hutchins
Co-Founder and Chairman at NIV

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