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Blockchain Venture Capital Investment and investment thesis in ICO

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Blockchain Venture Capital Investment and investment thesis in ICO

Profile

Gayatri Sarkar: She is Blockchain VC and Investor in crypto market since 2011. Currently a General Partner at a global Sports VC Fund on Blockchain called SportVEST, started by Emmy Award winning ex-ESPN executive, ex-Google Research, Sports Fund Management Executive and Big4 Fintech executive. We are disrupting the $500B traditional sports market by investing in future of sports. She was a manager at Federal Reserve Bank of Boston managing US military, navy global payment system highly confidential biggest fintech project. Have 12 yrs of experience managing big data strategy multi-million dollar fintech projects working for HP, IBM, Goldman Sachs, EU Bank. She is a Blockchain VC focussed Hackernoon writer and author of Word from the Block. She is also a co-founder of think tank BlockCAP.org (currently in stealth mode). She is an accredited investor and has been angel investing since 2015. Had two startups. She got into Bitcoin in 2011 and consider Ray Dillinger(early Bitcoin developer who worked with Satoshi) as her Blockchain mentor. She is in the board of many blockchain companies working on AI, ML, renewable energy. She is a Phd Physics drop out and have MBA. As a HKS alum, she chairs multiple development board of Harvard Kennedy School alumni board. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayatri-sarkar-3a995119/ Twitter: GS_VCactivist Hackernoon Publication:https://hackernoon.com/@GayatriSarkar