Aly Madhavji
Managing Partner at Blockchain Founders Fund
Aly Madhavji
Managing Partner at Blockchain Founders Fund
Singapore
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2018 - Current
Blockchain Founders Fund (BFF) is a Singapore based early-stage Venture Capital Fund which invests in top-tier Blockchain startups globally. Their industry leading go-to-market focused Venture Program aids seasoned and first-time entrepreneurs across key business functions to fast-track growth. BFF has scaled many of the leading Web3 Blockchain startups and is always looking to connect with exceptional founders across the industry including infrastructure, tooling, gamefi, and DeFi. Named as a Blockchain 100 Global Leader by Lattice80
Consultant
2018
Working with the United Nations on FinTech & Blockchain solutions to help alleviate poverty, support business ecosystems, financial inclusion, and improve society at large.
LP & Venture Partner
2018
Loyal VC operates a global startup index fund with over 125 investments across more than 35 countries. The fund is designed to minimize systemic bias inherent in the investment process, unlocking greater returns. With its collaborative, staged investment process, its network of over 300 global advisors, and its global relationships with the world's largest pre-seed accelerator, Founder Institute, and the #1 non-US business school for unicorn founders rated by Pitchbook, INSEAD, the Loyal Startup Index Fund has delivered strong returns since its launch in 2018. Its diverse portfolio of founders, of whom currently over 30% are women CEOs and almost 30% are from emerging markets, includes 80% social impact entrepreneurs who leverage technology to address one or more of the UN sustainable development goals.
Mentor
2019
Chinaccelerator, a leading startup accelerator in China, is a mentorship-driven program helping internet startups from around the world cross borders – from the world into China and from China to the world. It is operated by the venture fund SOSV with $700M+ AUM operating six global accelerators. Chinaccelerator offers three months of rigorous guidance, training and resources from mentors, partners and investors. The robust and supportive alumni network continues into the startups’ post-Chinaccelerator lifespan. Since its inception in 2010, Chinaccelerator has helped 140+ companies build a China and global business. One of its co-founders, Cyril Ebersweiler, also founded HAX, the world’s first and largest hardware accelerator. William Bao Bean is the current Managing Director of Chinaccelerator and Partner at SOSV.
Mentor
2019
MOX — the Mobile Only Accelerator — helps the best mobile startups from around the world acquire millions of users in Southeast Asia, India, Eastern Europe and South America. MOX brings free user acquisition to the 167 million users on its smartphone platform and investment in return for revenue share and equity. The strategic partnership kicks off with an accelerator program where MOX provides 50-150k users to localize the app and optimize retention and monetization market by market. The first global accelerator in Taiwan, MOX is operated by SOSV – the Accelerator VC – a venture fund with $550M assets under management investing through seven accelerators in startups from around the world by industry vertical in Internet, Hardware, Biotech and Food.
Guest Contributor
2020
Founded in 2013, Cointelegraph is the leading independent digital media resource covering a wide range of news on blockchain technology, crypto assets, and emerging fintech trends. Each day our team delivers the most accurate and up-to-date news from both the decentralized and centralized worlds.
Limited Partner
2020
Draper Goren Holm is a fintech venture studio focused on incubating and accelerating early-stage blockchain startups, founded by Tim Draper, Alon Goren, and Josef Holm.
Advisor
2020
Melodie is a subscription-based music licensing platform providing content creators with unlimited access to authentic, quality music. https://melod.ie/
Strategy Advisor
2019
JAUNTIN' enables insurance carriers to distribute on-demand micro-insurance. JAUNTIN's software and services are geared to service small businesses & the flexible workforce (gig-workers) of tomorrow. Their software manages short-term coverage through mobile devices in the areas of health, liability and property. JAUNTIN' currently offers products from 4 leading insurers and has active pilots with 3 insurers in North America, with the healthcare product available in all 50 States. JAUNTIN' is backed by Founders Institute & the Global Insurance Accelerator.
Senior Advisor
2018
- VC Funding from SOSV and Artesian Capital - Member of Chinaccelerator, Top accelerator in China AllRites is an online marketplace to buy and sell Film, TV and Sports Content Rights. Our platform was created to address the pain points faced by professional content creators around the world to efficiently find the right set of buyers for their content. We optimise revenue for content owners and reduce distribution costs by up to 75%. Broadcasters gain efficiency and ease in search and discovery of great new content on a global scale.
Advisor
2019
We help music labels and artists track their songs to collect royalties. Beatdapp is a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real time. It reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure to royalty lawsuits for DSPs. Awards: -#2 Seed Stage Company in Canada by Crunchbase -Winner of Inventures "Exploring Blockchain Breakthroughs" Competition (2019) -NACO Top 5 - Most Promising Startup of the Year (2019) -New Ventures BC Top 10 (2019) -New Ventures BC People's Choice Winner (By 4,000 votes) Accelerators: -Creative Destruction Labs (CDL-West) - Prime Stream Alumni (2019) -500 Startups San Francisco - Batch 25 -Project Music Portfolio company (Nashville, TN) We have a number of large label and distributor agreements. Interested in learning more? Email: Team@beatdapp.com