Chris Barter's path into venture capital started with physics at Brown and Harvard, then took him into finance during the funding shifts after the Cold War, followed by nearly two decades at Goldman Sachs across London, Frankfurt, and Moscow—where his work on Mail.ru with Yuri Milner gave him an early look at Facebook when it was valued around $9 billion—before he went on to co-launch two fund management platforms and lead investor syndicates through CKA Capital. Outside of investing, he surfs, plays guitar every night, and is involved in ocean conservation.
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AI, Fintech, Web3 / Crypto, Enterprise, Gaming / VR
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King River is a bi-regional fund built specifically to connect Australia and North America, led by a team with deep capital-markets backgrounds from Goldman Sachs rather than the typical founder-only path, and it invests in both tokens and equity through its own in-house trading capability, having been one of the first dedicated crypto-focused venture funds in Australia. The firm also creates thematic investment vehicles with strategic partners like Immutable and Polygon Labs, keeps a low deal-to-partner ratio so founders get direct access to the whole team, and has attracted an establishment-heavy investor base—including Future Super, the Fairfax and Smorgon families, and David Gonski—for its 2025 AI fund.
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