Borna Shoa leads Hack VC's liquid strategies with a hybrid mandate that combines on-chain DeFi participation with quant-style trading across centralized venues, giving him a cross-market view that's uncommon even among crypto-focused VCs. He brings rare depth in market microstructure for a venture investor, having worked as a fixed income trader at Capital Group and as an exchange architect at Nebula Labs, which he channels into evaluating protocol incentive design, order book dynamics, and token liquidity structures.
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Web3 / Crypto, AI, Fintech, Data, Mobile / Telecom
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Hack VC combines a decade-long solo GP track record with tier-one crypto VC expertise through co-founders Ed Roman (who ran the fund for 10+ years with 100+ early-stage investments) and Alex Pack (previously co-founder/Managing Partner at Dragonfly Capital with deals like MakerDAO, Compound, dYdX). The fund operates both traditional venture and on-chain strategies under one roof, backing hackers building Web3 infrastructure through equity, tokens, or both while focusing on deeply technical, non-consensus bets in under-appreciated corners of crypto.
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