Daniel Sangyoon Kim
Advisor at Nest Wallet
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
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.
Nest Wallet is a wallet specifically designed for traders.
Raised $3,600,000.00 from Steve Zhao, INCE Capital, gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC), Orange DAO, Kevin Lin, Jamie Lin, Nani XBT, Inception Capital, Ascensive Assets and Sebastien Borget.
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.
Draper Associates is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming companies.
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.
Greenhill & Co is an investment bank providing financial advices.
Raised $20,000,000.00.
Summer Analyst
2016 - 2016
Long short equity. Previous: L/S equity at Mercer Partners (2015) Activism at Clinton Group (2015)
Point72 invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide.
Raised $45,171,689.00.
Education
Bachelor's degree
2013 - 2017
High School Diploma
2009 - 2012