Daniel Sangyoon Kim

Advisor

2023 - Current

COO & Software Engineer

2022 - 2023

Co-founded Nest Wallet (www.nestwallet.xyz), the most user-friendly multisig crypto wallet. Raised $3.7M from the founders of Youtube, Twitch and other founder friends and angels, as well as backing from Coinbase, Stripe and Safe Protocol. Responsibilities included daily scrums in product and engineering while leading BD and fundraising.

Early Stage Investor

2019 - 2021

Generalist, head of crypto investments reporting to Tim Draper. Sourced early investments in Arkham, Polymarket, Polygon, Stacks, MakerDAO. Others: Coinbase, Ledger, Etherscan, Gemini, Unstoppable Domains, Ripio, Thesis, Lemon Cash and more. Draper is a seed investor in companies like Baidu, Bitcoin, Carta, Coinbase, Robinhood, Hotmail, SpaceX, Tesla and Twitch.

Investment Banking Analyst

2017 - 2018

Worked on deals including Coupang, Xiaomi and others. On the side, I bootstrapped a 7-figure crypto arbitrage business and made a wikipedia for crypto. This was in the early days when crypto markets were very inefficient.

Summer Analyst

2016 - 2016

Long short equity. Previous: L/S equity at Mercer Partners (2015) Activism at Clinton Group (2015)