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Perspectives • November 14, 2024

Galaxy Ventures Platform

We help portfolio companies grow from zero to one through tailored support across communications, brand & product design, talent acquisition, as well as direct access to Galaxy’s global crypto industry connectivity.

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"During the first two years of building my company, I was in Galaxy's office all the time and they were a huge part of our product development."

/ Michael Shaulov — CEO & Co-Founder of Fireblocks

“Partnering with Galaxy has been the best thing that’s happened to us! We are grateful to have them.”

/ Orkun Killic — CEO & Co-Founder of Citrea

"Galaxy has been a game changer for us. They are a true full stack venture firm -- you immediately access a full team."

/ Chris Yin — CEO & Co-Founder of Plume

"Galaxy has had incredible impact on Chaos Labs since the earliest of days. Truly lucky to partner with the best in business."

/ Omer Goldberg — CEO & Founder of Chaos Labs

"Simply tremendous. Alongside an investment comes Galaxy's expertise and network, with an invaluable platform experience.“

/ Dhruv Patel — CEO & Cofounder of Arch Lending

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Galaxy Ventures

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Focuses on designing brand identity and product UX/UI materials for portfolio companies ranging from websites, logos, and brand kits, to product dashboards, interfaces, and user flows to improve usability and user satisfaction.

Galaxy merges onchain ingenuity with Wall Street savvy to help investors navigate the digital asset and Web3 landscape across a broad range of investment solutions.

Industry expertise and access to the digital asset ecosystem, including trading, derivatives, and structured products; M&A advisory; and capital markets advisory services.

Galaxy provides customized wholesale lending solutions for qualifying institutions, accredited individuals, and corporations. Portfolio companies can directly talk with our lending team to discover opportunities to maximize their capital.

Leverage the resources of a global, crypto-native services platform. Galaxy’s blockchain infrastructure team operates multiple validator nodes and data oracles on a wide range of protocols. The team combines its core blockchain infrastructure services such as staking, restaking, and tokenization with the breadth and diversification of Galaxy’s business to provide an unmatched experience.

Specializes in creating and executing impactful marketing strategies and communication plans at varying company stages to enhance storytelling, brand visibility, press coverage, thought leadership, and mindshare.

Provides portfolio companies with direction and execution across all areas of the people and talent stack. This ranges from candidate sourcing for open roles to team scaling strategies that mitigate growth hurdles. There is also a Galaxy Ventures Talent Network, a highly vetted pool of top industry talent only accessible to portfolio companies.

Galaxy's Investment Banking team provides tailored advice and premier execution to companies and trailblazers in the crypto industry and digital asset economy.

Galaxy Ventures hosts Constellations, our invite-only crypto networking program. We bring together leading founders, builders, investors, and friends in media for conversations, culinary delights, and more. This is in addition to providing portfolio companies with insights on effective event strategy.

Founders and portfolio companies get exclusive access to our Founder Resource Portal, Founder Telegram Channel, Founder Newsletter, resource guides, invite-only events, and more.

Galaxy has more than 450 employees in offices across NYC, London, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv, the Bahamas, Dallas, Chicago, and more. Portfolio companies can access our global industry network to expedite introductions and connect with key industry players.

Team

William Nuelle

General Partner, Ventures

Will Nuelle is General Partner of Galaxy Ventures, focusing on early-stage investments in protocol layer infrastructure, DeFi applications, and software products. Will started at Galaxy in Research, where he developed quantitative risk software for trading. Before Galaxy, he built incentive simulations for Ethereum protocol FOAM as an intern. He holds B.S. degrees from Stanford University in Mathematics and Architecture.

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Mike Giampapa

General Partner, Ventures

Mike Giampapa is General Partner of Galaxy Ventures, focusing on the intersection of crypto and financial services, security & DeFi applications, and developer tooling. Prior to Galaxy, Mike worked at Bessemer Venture Partners, where he helped lead their crypto and fintech investing efforts, investing in 30+ companies across all stages. He also worked at Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), where he worked on the firm’s lead investment in Coinbase. Mike started his career at J.P. Morgan and worked in business development at Circle. He received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he served as co-president of the Blockchain and Crypto Club, and a B.A. in Economics from Johns Hopkins, where he was a member of the varsity football team.

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CJ Huntzinger

Head of Platform

CJ Huntzinger serves as the Head of Platform at Galaxy Ventures, where he supports the Ventures team and portfolio companies by leading strategy across marketing, communications, and events, while also developing comprehensive resources for founders. CJ partners closely with portfolio companies and founders to elevate their brand positioning through story design, press relations, content strategy, go-to-market planning, and thought leadership initiatives. Before joining Galaxy, CJ led communications at Songtrust, a premier global music royalty payments platform, where he was instrumental in scaling the company’s brand on a global scale. He has over a decade of experience in startup marketing and communications and more than five years dedicated to venture platform work.

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Neil Bhuta

Investor

Neil Bhuta is an Investor at Galaxy Ventures. His investment thesis focuses on crypto-enabled payments, software, blockchain infrastructure, and DeFi applications. Prior to Galaxy, Neil worked at DCG and spent his time on crypto investment activities across all stages. Neil started his career in M&A at Evercore and worked in long-short equity at Governors Lane. He received a B.S. in Finance and Economics, magna cum laude, from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University where he was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma.

Danny Slutsky

Investor

Danny Slutsky is an Investor at Galaxy Ventures, where he focuses on portfolio management, operations, and monetization efforts across all Galaxy portfolio companies. Prior to Galaxy, Danny worked at Digital Currency Group (DCG) and CME Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of CME Group, where he managed over 200 early to late-stage portfolio companies, served on boards, assisted with M&A, and led all secondary market strategies across both funds. Danny holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, with concentrations in finance, accounting, strategic management, and entrepreneurship.

James Kibbie

Investor

James Kibbie is an Investor at Galaxy Ventures focusing on investing in the intersection of crypto and financial services, DeFi's role in the future of capital markets, and the application of blockchain technology across sectors with complex or inefficient data flows. Prior to Galaxy, Kibbie worked at Point72 Ventures where he helped lead their crypto investment strategy. He started his VC career at DRW Venture Capital, supporting the firm's multi-stage investment strategy in the digital assets and fintech sector. Kibbie studied Economics at Wheaton College (IL) where he led the school's Student Managed Investment Fund and served as a TA in Financial Economics, Macroeconomics, and Statistics.

Jules Nguyen

Portfolio Talent Lead, Platform

Jules Nguyen leads Portfolio Talent at Galaxy Ventures, overseeing the Talent program to source and recruit talent for portfolio companies, while advising them on talent strategies that build effective teams and mitigate growth hurdles. With over a decade’s worth of talent acquisition experience, Jules helps founders and startups understand the business of people and unlock their thinking around team efficiencies and capital. Prior to Galaxy, she was responsible for blockchain security hiring at Coinbase, and successfully built dynamic engineering and go-to-market teams at tech giants Google and Tesla. Jules earned a BA in Psychology from UCSB, which gave her a deep understanding of human behavior and organizational development.

Lukas Kmoth

Design Lead Consultant, Platform

Lukas Kmoth leads Design at Galaxy Ventures, closely collaborating with portfolio companies providing hands-on product design sprints and UX direction. His responsibilities include building complex design systems, conducting UX research, early-stage prototyping, and branding. He aims to set up portfolio companies for scale and bring them to the next level through design. He is passionate about creating easy access to crypto for everyone and improving the experience for new and seasoned users. Prior to Galaxy, he was the Design Lead of ThoughtLab, a west coast-based Design Agency that worked with multiple VCs including Atlantic Foodlabs in Berlin.

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Ian Irlander

Venture Legal Counsel

Ian Irlander is Venture Counsel to the Galaxy Ventures and Interactive teams. Prior to Galaxy, Ian worked as an associate in the Emerging Companies and Growth Group at Latham & Watkins LLP where he focused on venture investments and strategic transactions in the digital asset, blockchain, DeFi and fintech spaces. Ian received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and previously served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick, Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery.

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Disclaimer: The testimonials on this website and elsewhere herein were provided by executives and officers of portfolio companies. While certain of these individuals may be a current or past investment advisory client of Galaxy or an investor in a Fund that Galaxy manages, such testimonials or endorsements are not intended to represent – and should not be construed as – a statement regarding the investor’s experience as an advisory client of Galaxy or as an investor in a fund managed by Galaxy. While no specific compensation was paid to these individuals in connection with these testimonials, given Galaxy’s substantial investment in each of these portfolio companies, these individuals may have a conflict of interest when asked to provide testimonials. In addition, any individual that as an advisory client or investor may also have a conflict of interest when being asked to provide testimonials, including by indirectly benefiting from an increase in assets under management by Galaxy or other factors.

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