Before becoming a crypto investor, Ivailo Jordanov spent years as a product builder and operator, founding 23 Snaps and working in senior roles at companies like Styloko and Reed Business Information, and he later helped start The Funded, a series that teaches founders practical fundraising skills like how much money to raise and which investors to approach. He's known for backing teams early based on conviction in their mission even before their business model is fully clear, investing across varied and technically complex areas like decentralized AI compute, on-chain interest rate products, and stablecoin infrastructure, while also supporting founders through Daedalus Collective, an operator-led group that has backed over 90 companies.