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Karia Samaroo

Co-Founder at BitMind

Vancouver, British Columbia

Overview 

Karia Samaroo is the Co-Founder of BitMind in Vancouver, British Columbia, with a background in entrepreneurship, securities regulation, and financial modeling. Notable highlights of their career include serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO at WonderFi, and holding leadership positions at Atlas One Digital Securities and First Block Capital before their acquisition by 3iQ.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder

    2024 - Current

    Building a decentralized, incentivized deepfake detection subnet on Bittensor (SN 34).

  • Chairman of the Board of Directors

    2022 - 2023

  • Co-Founder and CEO

    2021 - 2022

    WonderFi (TSX: WNDR) is a leading technology company with the mission of creating better access to digital assets through compliant centralized and decentralized platforms.

  • Co-Founder, General Counsel & Director

    2020 - 2022

    Atlas One is an investment bank focused on digital securities and licensed through the CSA Regulatory Sandbox.

  • General Counsel & CCO (Acquired by 3iQ)

    2017 - 2019

    First Block Capital was the first regulated Investment Fund Manager, Portfolio Manager and Exempt Market Dealer licensed to deal in cryptocurrency.

  • General Counsel & CCO of Galaxy Digital Canada

    2018 - 2018

    Galaxy Digital is a diversified, multi-service merchant bank dedicated to the digital assets and blockchain technology industry. The Company is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, Vancouver, the Cayman Islands (registered office) and New Jersey.

Galaxy Digital is a technology-driven investment firm that provides financial solutions spanning the digital assets ecosystem.

Raised $998,000,000.00 from Senator Investment Group, Arca, XN and Nz Funds.

  • Advisor

    2018 - 2018

    One of the world's largest publicly traded bitcoin mining companies. Headquartered and operated in Canada, trading on the TSX, Hut 8 creates value for its investors through low production costs and appreciation of its bitcoin inventory.

  • Co-Founder, General Counsel & CCO (Acquired by Galaxy Digital)

    2017 - 2018

    First Coin Capital is a Fintech company whose vision is to create an open and inclusive capital market by providing technology driven investment banking service and regulated software platform in the blockchain & cryptocurrency space.

  • Corporate Securities and Finance Lawyer

    2011 - 2016

    Summer Student 2011, 2012 Articling Student 2013

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