Joey Krug
Partner at Founders Fund
Joey Krug
Partner at Founders Fund
San Juan
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2023 - Current
Leading the next decade of Founders Fund's crypto strategy while looking for the next wave of generational crypto startups and founders to back
Co-Founder
2017
One simple balance that lets you spend, send, save and make money at the same time. Eco puts your money back to work for you.
Advisor
2016
Decentralized Exchange Built on Ethereum, seeded 0x + advisor
Investor
2016
Checkout my AngelList syndicate at https://angel.co/joeykrug/syndicate I back companies with strong moats that I'd love to work on if I had more time: practical, novel things that should exist in the world but simply don't... yet. Especially fintech, biotech + healthcare, crowdsourcing, and software companies. Our first deal was numer.ai, and our next deal is for a protocol for decentralized exchange/trading of tokens on Ethereum.
Advisor
2018
An adaptive money built on sound economics, helped w/ AMPL currency design
Technical Advisor
2016
Helped create NMR (code + paper) Numerai combines the most accurate and original machine learning models from the world’s best data scientists into a collective artificial intelligence that controls the capital in Numerai’s hedge fund. AI + Homomorphic Encryption + Prediction Tournaments + Bitcoin Rewards == Better Capital Allocation
Advisor
2017
Advising Origin on their decentralized sharing economy platform!
Technical Advisor
2016
Technical advisor - rebuilding the internet for decentralized apps
Co-Chief Investment Officer
2017 - 2023
Co-Chief Investment Officer at one of the largest cryptocurrency and blockchain focused asset managers where we manage both venture and hedge funds
Board Member
2018 - 2022
Education
High School Diploma
2009 - 2013