Banafsheh ("B") Fathieh

Founding Partner, Faction
B's Iranian upbringing under capital controls drives her focus on crypto solutions for emerging-market financial infrastructure, combining co-founder and blockchain-advisor roles with technical blockchain evaluation and Latin American fintech investing.
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About Banafsheh ("B") Fathieh

B's Iranian upbringing under capital controls drives her crypto investing thesis, as she focuses on how digital assets can solve financial infrastructure problems in emerging markets rather than just developed ones. As co-founder of Faction and blockchain advisor to Lightspeed, she brings both large-ticket growth investing experience from backing Latin American fintech companies at Prosus Ventures and a technical approach to evaluating which blockchain infrastructure works best for specific use cases.

Banafsheh ("B") Fathieh's Interests

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  • A strong interest in practical blockchain utility, specifically within the payments and insurance sectors. She has heavily criticized the traditional insurance industry for trying to avoid payouts and explicitly encouraged founders to build programmatic payout solutions to solve these perverse incentives.
  • Valuing grit and unconventional backgrounds over elite credentials. She has stated that optimizing for pedigree is an ineffective way to find quality talent, expressing a clear preference for individuals who demonstrate heart and hustle regardless of a nonlinear career path.
  • Commitment to long-term building rather than short-term speculation. She emphasizes that her investment orientation prioritizes building something useful over quick gains and has shown disdain for tourists who jump between trends like AI and crypto based on market hype.
  • Belief that the next wave of crypto adoption will be driven by enterprise integration. She views the involvement of major financial institutions, brands, and retailers as the key signal that the industry is maturing and moving toward widespread usage.
  • Advocacy for genuine decentralization and founder accountability. She has argued that financial success should be tied to shipping working products rather than token price rallies, suggesting that if a project stalls or fails to deliver, the founders and investors should not profit.
  • A hands-on, supportive approach to portfolio relationships. She describes her style as protective of her teams, using the metaphor of a mama bear to describe how she champions the companies she backs, such as those in the crypto gaming space.

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Web3 / Crypto, Fintech, AI, Data, Devtools
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Seed - Series A
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$50K - $5M

$250M fund Investing in early-stage disruptive crypto ideas. Likes to invest across the stack (layer zero to applications) and sectors (DeFi to NFTs). 

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