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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. Our Story The two of us met at NYU almost 10 years ago. We were infatuated with tech. But we never lost the finance bug.

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Venture Capital Funding and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove

Up and Running

“In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95