Miko Matsumura
Managing Partner at Gumi Cryptos Capital
Miko Matsumura
Managing Partner at Gumi Cryptos Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner gCC (gumi Cryptos Capital)
2018 - Current
gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC) is an early stage blockchain investment fund headquartered in San Francisco. We invest in blockchain and Web3 projects. We support the best builders and founders in the world. We are value-adding investors and we specialize in helping projects at the early stages with fundraising, hiring, business development, product market fit, go to market, liquidity, and growth.
Seed Investor
2019
The world’s first and largest digital marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Buy, sell, and discover exclusive digital items.
Seed Investor
2021
YGG is a play-to-earn gaming guild. That means we buy into NFT assets of different blockchain games. For example, we own a lot of axies, a lot of cars in F1 Delta Time, a lot of land in games like Sandbox and League of Kingdoms. Once we have these assets, we lend them out to our player base, the guild members. These guild members are playing with the assets that we own inside the game. They make some money off that through the game mechanics, get some token-based rewards, and are able to cash out to fiat. Think about it as a World of Warcraft guild with a bank account.
Member Board Of Directors
2020
We set out on a journey to unlock the mysteries of crypto assets and provide investors with relevant intelligence about the market. We had too many unanswered questions about crypto markets so we built a platform that allows us to leverage the power of machine learning to generate new insights about this fascinating asset class.
Member Board Of Directors
2019
Cybersecurity solution for Enterprise remote workforces that uses a patent pending privacy-preserving biometric authentication mechanism based on blockchain and multi-party computation. Acquired by SIFT. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/11/17/2336663/0/en/Sift-Acquires-Passwordless-Authentication-Pioneer-Keyless-to-Provide-Regulated-Businesses-and-Online-Merchants-with-Secure-Frictionless-Authentication.html
Cofounder
2016 - 2021
Evercoin is a Silicon Valley based cryptocurrency exchange founded and led by Talip Ozturk, the creator of Hazelcast, a popular open source in-memory distributed database in use at the biggest financial services companies in the world. Having seen the power of open source at some of the largest banks in the world, Talip was inspired to join the cryptocurrency movement which combines his love of open systems and distributed governance with his experience in large-scale high-performance financial infrastructure and distributed computing. Starting with the Evercoin exchange, we are working to help transform the world's financial infrastructure to make it more inclusive, more participatory, more democratic and more rewarding for all stakeholders.
CMO
2015 - 2016
Chief Marketing Officer at Gradle Inc., Open Source Build Automation Software. Tripled value of company in 20 months. Implemented full-stack Marketing Automation in first 90 days, including migration of a million unique users per quarter, 4,700 page open source web site from custom PHP to Wordpress CMS, implementation of Salesforce Pardot including Landing Pages, Tracking, Email Nurture, Forms, Lead Scoring, Page Actions and Automation Rules. Implemented Google Analytics, Pardot, Crazyegg, Inspectlet, Optimizely, Discourse, Zapier, Salesforce, Moz, NewRelic, Segment, Intercom, Mixpanel, Cloudflare. Ran Event marketing strategy including major events such as Oracle Open World and the Gradle Summit Annual User Conference. High volume funnel including 120k emails and inbound cadence of 1,500 new emails per week, 2M page views per month and 9k+ twitter followers. Implemented rebranding of company including new logo mark and all use guides, web site migration, SEO and acquisition of brand properties including gradle.com and @gradle twitter handle. Successful press coverage including The New Stack, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Infoworld, Application Development Trends (ADT), Wall Street Journal and others.
VP of Marketing
2013 - 2015
I ran worldwide marketing at Hazelcast and managed the team that controls Demand Gen, Field Marketing, Marketing Automation, Sales Development, Market Response, Brand, Developer Evangelism, Analyst and Press Relations and all other marketing programs for Hazelcast. I also took responsibility for building a scalable and positive company culture. I implemented Pardot Marketing Automation with integration with Salesforce.com and development of closed loop reporting driving predictable revenue growth rates of 300% year over year and generating over $21M of new opportunity pipeline year to date. Instrumental in raising significant new Venture Capital of $11M for Hazelcast from Early Bird and Bain Capital Ventures effectively tripling the value of the company in 18 months. I was part of the executive team that transformed the business model of Hazelcast from Open Source Support only to majority Enterprise Commercial License and established our subscription pricing model, plans and promotions, driving bookings from $1M 2013 to north of $5M in 2014. I executed full rebranding including new logo mark design and development, company messaging and tagline, launch of three web properties and integration with Wordpress CMS and Marketing Automation systems and the buildout of a robust content marketing program including over forty downloadable white papers, case studies price calculators and webinars.
Senior Vice President of Marketing & Developer Relations
2010 - 2013
Cofounder of Servo Software, executed a merger with Synclore Corporation to form Kii a leader in Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS), a backend cloud service for mobile application developers. Responsible for product and worldwide marketing and developer relations through revenue ranging from sub one million to 10 million plus. Executed a full repositioning and rebranding of the company including the launch of multiple web properties, logo design, company renaming, product strategy and repositioning, and integration of web CMS with Marketing Automation systems (Hubspot). Founding member of Kii Safe, an internal Kii project which became KeepSafe a 25 Million user mobile app. Conceptualized, hired for, developed first prototype and helped to spin out this successful mobile app. https://www.getkeepsafe.com/ Keywords: Platform Marketing, Demand Gen, Marketing Automation, Hubspot, M&A, Venture Capital.
VP Marketing and Product Management
2005 - 2010
(SOW:DE via $546M cash acquisition of webMethods) Member of Global Leadership team, Responsible for Product Strategy, Key member of extended Mergers and Acquisitions team that tripled annual revenue of the company above 1B Euros, Venture Capital and Private Equity liaison Responsible for SOA Product marketing driving revenue from 1M to 30M. Reporting to CMO. Responsible for top position in Gartner SOA Governance Magic Quadrant. Keywords: Field Enablement, Sales Training, product management, product strategy, Analyst relations, Gartner Magic Quadrant. Joined Software AG through the of INFRAVIO by WebMethods Worked at INFRAVIO as VP of Worldwide Marketing. INFRAVIO was a leader in SOA Governance and Web Service Management Enterprise Software Infrastructure. Managed all aspects of worldwide marketing and helped drive a major transactional outcome (acquisition by webMethods for 38M in cash) with a significant revenue multiple. Major contributor to product strategies including open source and product portfolio management. Participated in the creation of a new Gartner Magic Quadrant for "SOA Governance" and moved INFRAVIO to the visionary position in the lower right corner. Infravio product eventually moved to the pole position in the upper right corner after acquisition by Software AG.