Blockchain Investing: from Rollercoaster to Real Results. Where in the Cycle Are We?
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Kavita Gupta has worked in venture for years and run funds for World Bank and the Eric Schmidt Family Office. Now she’s the Founding Managing Partner at ConsenSys Ventures and has spent a lot of time helping to build a blockchain ecosystem. Marta Sjögren is a Partner at Northzone, with a strong interest in user adoption and behaviour. In this fireside chat, Kavita and Marta are going to focus on the next chapter in blockchain investments. What has been Kavita’s thesis when investing in the space and what blockchains interest her? How decentralized is this space, and what does it mean for power structures related to innovation? -- In 2018, Slush brought together 20,000 attendees, including 3,100 startups, 1,800 investors and 650 journalists from over 130 countries. The cold and dark Helsinki welcomed these tech-heads to celebrate on Dec 3-5, 2018 with hundreds of side-events and activities around the city. Slush 2018 in pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/slushmedia/albums Website: http://www.slush.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/slushHQ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/slushHQ Instagram: http://instagram.com/SlushHQ Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/slush Slush Tokyo: http://tokyo.slush.org Slush Shanghai: http://shanghai.slush.org Slush Singapore: http://singapore.slush.org Intro videos by: VAU (http://vau.company) VELI.fx / Veli Creative (http://velicreative.fi) Slush is a non-profit event organized by a community of entrepreneurs, investors, students and festival organizers. Slush has grown from a 300-person event to become the leading event of its kind in the world. The philosophy behind it has remained the same: to help the next generation of great, world-conquering companies forward.