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Barek Sekandari

Exec. Director - SKChain

📍 London, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2018
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Early Investor
Dec 2017
Pundi X is a leading developer of blockchain-powered devices which include the XPOS, the world’s first point-of-sale solution that enables merchants and consumers to conduct in-store transactions instantly on the blockchain. The company is headquartered in Singapore. Its international presence extends to offices in Jakarta, Taipei, and Tokyo. Listed as one of the top 50 emerging innovative fintech startups in 2018 by KPMG and H2 ventures and highlighted as a cool vendor in blockchain business in a recent Gartner Report in May 2019, Pundi X is also a member of Singapore Fintech Association, Fintech Association of Hong Kong, ACCESS, Swiss Finance and Fintech Association, and a founding member of Asosiasi Blockchain Indonesia. For more information about Pundi X, visit: https://pundix.com/ Presently, the activities of PUNDI X are not regulated or licensed by the financial regulatory authorities of many jurisdictions, including the Monetary Authority of Singapore (“MAS”). Pundi X remains committed to complying with all relevant regulations in force that relate to our activities.
Investor
Dec 2016
Neo is an open-source community-driven blockchain platform. It is the most developer-friendly, feature-complete blockchain platform for building decentralized applications. Neo enables developers to digitize and automate the management of assets through smart contracts. It also provides powerful native infrastructures such as decentralized storage and oracles, creating a solid foundation for the Next-Gen Internet. Learn more at: https://neo.org
Experience · 4 entries
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2019
Head Of Partnerships and Exchange Listings
Jan 2019
GoChain is a scalable, Ethereum based smart contract blockchain that is fast, secure and green. It enables DApp and smart contract developers to lift and shift from Ethereum to GoChain for 100x increased performance. GoChain's mission is to provide a scalable, low cost, energy efficient platform for digital currency and decentralized applications. Goal: 10x more decentralized Open decentralization did not work as intended as more than 70% of mining is in China and the majority of that is run by just a few companies. GoChain forces nodes to be in different countries, run by unrelated people/companies. Goal: 100x more transactions per second GoChain will support very high transaction volumes with fast verifications. Ethereum can only process 13 transactions per second, GoChain will initially target 1300 transactions per second. Goal: 1000x less energy consumption The energy used to run the Bitcoin network could power more than 3.5 million US households, 1 million to run Ethereum. We think that's completely unnacceptable and unsustainable. GoChain will use a small fraction of the energy used to run other cryptocurrencies. If you'd like to be part of a cutting edge team working to create the next generation of blockchain technology, please reach out to us - we're hiring!
2018
Quarkchain
Early Investor
May 2018
2017
Early Investor
Dec 2017
Pundi X is a leading developer of blockchain-powered devices which include the XPOS, the world’s first point-of-sale solution that enables merchants and consumers to conduct in-store transactions instantly on the blockchain. The company is headquartered in Singapore. Its international presence extends to offices in Jakarta, Taipei, and Tokyo. Listed as one of the top 50 emerging innovative fintech startups in 2018 by KPMG and H2 ventures and highlighted as a cool vendor in blockchain business in a recent Gartner Report in May 2019, Pundi X is also a member of Singapore Fintech Association, Fintech Association of Hong Kong, ACCESS, Swiss Finance and Fintech Association, and a founding member of Asosiasi Blockchain Indonesia. For more information about Pundi X, visit: https://pundix.com/ Presently, the activities of PUNDI X are not regulated or licensed by the financial regulatory authorities of many jurisdictions, including the Monetary Authority of Singapore (“MAS”). Pundi X remains committed to complying with all relevant regulations in force that relate to our activities.
2016
Investor
Dec 2016
Neo is an open-source community-driven blockchain platform. It is the most developer-friendly, feature-complete blockchain platform for building decentralized applications. Neo enables developers to digitize and automate the management of assets through smart contracts. It also provides powerful native infrastructures such as decentralized storage and oracles, creating a solid foundation for the Next-Gen Internet. Learn more at: https://neo.org
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2016–2018 · 3 investments
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