Global Blockchain Ventures Launches $100M Blockchain Technology Focused Venture Fund
Summary
Led by Al Weiss, David Metcalf Ph.D., Max Hooper, Ph.D., and Dieter Kondek, Global Blockchain Ventures Fund, LP, has a core investment focus on blockchain technology and synergistic technology platforms including Internet of Things, MedTech, and Artificial Intelligence.David Metcalf, Ph.D. has more than 20 years; experience in the design and research of web-based and mobile technologies converging to enable learning and healthcare.After founding and running a spinoff for NASA, Dr. Metcalf became and is currently the Director of the Mixed Emerging Technology Integration Lab (METIL) at the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation and Training.Max Hooper, Ph.D. has over 30 years’ experience serving leadership positions for financial services with a specialty for debt and equity financing, he studied FinTech and Blockchain with cohorts at MIT and Crypto Currencies and Business Disruption with cohorts at the London School of Economics.Kondek co-founded and exited multiple successful startups and served as CEO and other senior leadership positions in software and infrastructure technologies industries for companies such as IBM, Dell, Pivot3 and Techdata.