Hamiz Awan, Founder and Partner at Plutus21 Capital, discusses Blockchain infrastructure and platforms. Sramana Mitra: Let’s introduce you to our audience. Tell us a bit about our background as well as about Plutus21 Capital.
Sramana Mitra: In the last example, you have talked about protocol and security in the context of the developed market and one of your hotshot investments. What about the application side of the developed market? What kind of new FinTech applications are coming about that you’ve invested in that are interesting because of Blockchain? Brock
Sramana Mitra: What about infrastructure in the developing world? Brock Pierce: Access to capital is one of the main challenges that governments have around the world. They have to use their balance sheets to basically sign guarantees. With those guarantees, there are people who will lend to the groups that are building the infrastructure on
Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click down on each of those categories. Give us some examples of ventures that you have invested in that particularly stand out as great examples of leveraging Blockchain to address one or the other of your two categories. Brock Pierce: I started Blockchain Capital back in 2013. It was the first venture
Sramana Mitra: Given that is your high level hypothesis, where are the investment opportunities for venture investment that you are particularly excited about? Brock Pierce: We’re about 10 years in where the internet was in the mid to late 90’s. Keep in mind that internet wasn’t useful until you had a sufficient amount of infrastructure.
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Brock Pierce was recorded in September 2018. Brock Pierce, Co-Founder of Blockchain Capital, discusses his worldview of the Blockchain investment opportunity. Brock is one of the pioneers of investing in Blockchain companies.
Brock Pierce, Co-Founder of Blockchain Capital, discusses his worldview of the Blockchain investment opportunity. Brock is one of the pioneers of investing in Blockchain companies.