JK

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

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