Kenneth Ballenegger
Managing Partner at Oyster Ventures
Hong Kong
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2017 - Current
Oyster Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in exceptional new-frontier technology companies.
Travel Advisor
2022
Board Observer
2020
Maker of the world's 1st genetically engineered probiotic.
Raised $17,220,000.00 from Seamless Capital, Spring Tide Capital, Seaside Ventures, Goat Rodeo Capital and Access Capital.
Cofounder & CSO
2017 - 2019
Republic Crypto provides blockchain infrastructure, digital asset management, and business development advisory services.
Insitutional Fund Products
2014 - 2017
AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups.
Raised $170,200,000.00 from Beyond Capital, FJ Labs, Nomad Ventures, Kyle Tibbitts, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Sprint Vc, Ride Home Fund, Palumni VC, Vishal Rao and Tiger Global Management.
Algorithmic Investing
2016 - 2016
Co-Founder & CTO
2014 - 2014
FreshPay is a U.S.-based company that operates a payment processing platform for digital currencies.
Raised $500,000.00 from Anil D. Aggarwal, W Bradford Stephens, Gary Greenwald, Brock Pierce, Jalak Jobanputra, Jonathan Weiner, P Bart Stephens, Ray Iglesias, Dan Abelon and Edge Harris Ventures.
Architect
2011 - 2014
As the first engineer and architect at Chartboost, I worked on designing our software stack and planning for the future. Starting from zero, I was instrumental in enabling our growth to a billion daily events, 120 employees, 500 servers, 60,000 apps… all in just our first few years. Some of my more significant contributions to Chartboost included writing our iOS SDK, designing our money processing infrastructure, our ad targeting algorithm, and driving the product development for the highly publicized launches of the Chartboost Store and Video interstitials.
Head of Mobile Engineering
2011 - 2014
As the company grew into a larger engineering organization, I took on the additional responsibility of recruiting and building our mobile engineering team. The team is currently comprised of 5 full-time engineers, and is responsible for developing new products and features in our iOS, Android, and Unity SDKs.
Owner
2007 - 2013
Backend Games Engineer
2010 - 2011
The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports coverage and television shows.
Raised $11,000,000,000.00 from Citibank.
Education
BFA
2009 - 2012