David Tso

Investment DAO deploying checks into early stage web3 social companies

Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone. Two principles guide our efforts. First, be the most trusted company in our domain. Second, create user-focused products that are easier and more intuitive to use.

Investment DAO deploying checks into early stage web3 social companies

Covalent is a technology company that is solving the huge infrastructure problems inhibiting blockchain adoption. Our solution bridges the entrenched world of centralized databases with the new world of distributed blockchain technologies. Blockchains provide a new frontier of development for enterprises, consumers and software developers. Due to its decentralized architecture, immutable ledger and highly secure framework, applications of the technology will impact industries ranging from finance and retail to personal identity and cryptocurrency. Covalents solution will exponentially increase access to and adoption of distributed blockchain technologies for enterprise and consumer use cases. The first version of Covalent was built in a weekend at a distributed systems hackathon in the fall of 2017. After winning the hackathon, we decided to turn it into a hosted service and start commercialization. Our team is comprised of industry veterans in database and distributed systems. Covalent is funded by leading venture investors, with over a decade of expertise building and scaling technology companies. We are hiring for a number of positions. Covalent is small, so everyone will have a huge impact. With only a handful of people we are already processing hundreds of millions of transactions. Open job postings here: https://www.covalenthq.com/about/careers/

Big Red Ventures (BRV) is an early-stage venture capital fund operated entirely by a team of MBA students and other Graduate Students at Cornell University. Founded in 2001, BRV is one of the oldest student-run venture funds. BRV typically invests up to $25,000 in U.S.-based high-growth companies across all industries. Initially funded by donations to Cornell University, BRV is a true evergreen fund, recycling all proceeds for reinvestment. Along with investing start-up capital in promising new companies, BRV also serves as the gateway to Cornell technologies by providing its investment partners unique access to new innovations.