Parker Jay-Pachirat

Investment Team - DeFi Fund

2022 - Current

FinTech Collective is a global, early-stage venture capital firm backing entrepreneurs transforming how money moves through the world. Founded in 2012 with offices in New York City and London, the firm has deep experience investing across capital markets, wealth and asset management, banking, lending, payments, insurance, and DeFi. The managing partners of FinTech Collective met in their mid-20s and helped build, scale, and successfully exit four fintech businesses. Backed by some of the world’s leading institutional investors, FinTech Collective manages over $800m in regulatory assets. Over the last decade, the firm has had 10 exits, taken one company from pitch deck to public markets and invested in 96 portfolio companies, including well-known firms such as Anyfin in Stockholm, Flutterwave in Lagos, IMMO in London, Minu in Mexico City, Mondu in Berlin, Simetrik in Columbia, and several important businesses in NYC including MoneyLion, NYDIG, Ocrolus, Quovo (acquired by Plaid) and Vestwell. • Investment Team @ Fintech Collective's DeFi Fund. • We are a dedicated, crypto-native team of ex-founders & operators. Our DeFi Fund is stage-agnostic, investing in equity & tokens — from white papers to liquid markets. We support our portfolio through research, on-chain governance, & token design. • Since 2012, we've spawned over 6+ unicorns, with a track record leading early-stage investments in companies like MoneyLion, NYDIG, MakerDAO, UMA, Centrifuge, Rainbow Wallet, Dharma (acquired by OpenSea), and more.

Founding Team, Boys Club

2021

• Founding Member of Boys Club, a builder-centric ecosystem driving the future of culture in Web3. Boys Club was founded in November 2021 and has been widely commended for its cultural impact, receiving notable recognition from media outlets like Vogue, TechCrunch, Fast Company, The Atlantic, and more. • Spearheaded strategic initiatives that grew Boys Club's community presence to over six countries and significantly increased our rate of new member applications, which averaged over 300+ new applications per week to join the community (at peak). • Founded and led initiatives such as Boys Club DAO, an internal incubator and product studio created to build and launch products & services into the broader Boys Club community. • Raised ~$1m to seed the Boys Club DAO Treasury, led by Framework Ventures, w/ additional participation from Blockworks, Bankless, PplPleasr, FWB DAO, amongst others. Non-cap table raise. • Incubated three revenue-generating projects, two of which became Boys Club's flagship product offerings for Boys Club. • Helped source and secure key partnerships with industry leaders like Centrifuge, Uniswap, Aave, Berachain, and more.

Founder, Boys Club DAO

2021

• Founded Boys Club DAO, a decentralized organization responsible for maintaining and growing the daily operations of Boys Club and incubating new projects under the Boys Club brand. Two of the projects incubated in Boys Club DAO are (revenue-generating) flagship products for Boys Club today. • Raised ~$1m to seed DAO Treasury, led by Framework Ventures. Non-cap table raise. • Managed 30+ DAO members over 2.5+ years, with 98% member retention YoY, averaging 85% active governance participation across the DAO. • Led governance design, incentive mechanism design, treasury management strategy, and organizational design for Boys Club DAO. • Led end-to-end hiring and recruiting strategy to attract exceptional talent and expand our DAO's team in Boys Club DAO S2. Designed and led the candidate pipeline and interview process, from discovery to onboarding. Interviewed & vetted candidates. Led the onboarding of ~20 new members onto our team. • Supported creating and establishing initiatives like Boys Club DAO's Asset Management Strategy, the Boys Club DAO Grants Program, and more.

Founding Member, CoS Mastermind Network

2021 - 2022

• Founding Member. The Chief of Staff Mastermind Network is a vetted community of business professionals in NYC tech.

Chief of Staff

2021 - 2022

• (EXITED - ACQUIRED BY WORKWEEK, MAR 2021). • Fintech Today is the leading community & content media brand in the financial technology industry. • Worked alongside Founder & CEO Ian Karr as a leader, advisor, and confidant. • Managed a team of 6+, delegating and overseeing their roles, responsibilities and day-to-day work. • Guided company from inception to exit. Advisor on key strategic decisions related to exit. • Founded 'Crypto Tonight', Fintech Today's first spinoff crypto media arm. Produced a weekly newsletter, podcast, and interview series with leading founders & CEOs in the space. Secured TripActions as an exclusive partner and sponsor for Crypto Tonight.

Product Manager

2021 - 2022

- Ideating, developing, and shipping new products for FTT+ premium subscribers that meet members' wants and needs, based on my user research and data analysis. - Designing and conducting user research and experiments to better understand our user’s pain points, wants, and needs, with a specific focus on our paid communities. - Performing data analysis, presenting key takeaways with data visualization to multiple audiences. - Writing product specs, user stories, product roadmaps, and other related documents to provide clear instructions on the intent, performance, and requirements of said project. - Sourcing and closing partnerships with other startups to provide relevant and mutually beneficial outcomes for both parties.

Writer

2020 - 2021

Writer for Fintech Today, a community and content startup focused on the financial technology ecosystem. - Writing Fintech Today's weekly newsletter, reporting on financial technology funding and startup news. Identifying and prioritizing news by relevancy and significance. - Performing in-depth research on startups, regulation, funding, and innovation happening in the fintech space.

Director

2020 - 2021

Maintaining Occidental’s six-figure investment portfolio, buying and selling stocks.

Venture Investor, Intern

2021 - 2021

- Conducting in-depth market research to help Impulsum better evaluate prospective portfolio companies and to support Impulsum’s incubated startups.

Product Manager

2019 - 2021

Product and Project Manager of the Youth Media Lab, a nuanced social media platform for activists aged 14-24 interested in gender justice and cultural change. - Conceived and launched the Youth Media Lab Ambassador program to accelerate exposure and incentivize culture and community building. Manager of Ambassador team: designing goals and expectations, interviewing and onboarding, role delegation. - Drove traffic to the Youth Media Lab up 70% by creating a Youth Programs Instagram account. - Created engagement strategies to drive participation and engagement like Amplify: a podcast where young activists engage in meaningful conversations with successful individuals driving positive social change. - Made strategic decisions by analyzing user data collected from surveys and interviews. Ideated, pitched, and launched new functions for the YML based on this data. - Drove membership up by 82.5% in 30 days by ideating and executing a campaign re-branding the YML platform both internally and externally. - Collaborated with TRP’s comms and PR team to launch strategic cross-promotion partnerships with brands like BBXX to increase the size of our total addressable market.

Marketing

2019 - 2019

Manager

2019 - 2021

- Interviewed and hired new callers. - Conducted performance evaluations, coached callers on fundraising techniques, monitored callers' progress. - Attented weekly managers’ meetings to set fundraising goals, assess progress, and create incentives for staff members. - Supervised calling shifts.

Telemarketer

2018 - 2020

Chief Marketing Officer, Women of Economics

2019 - 2020

- First-ever CMO of the Women Of Economics club at Occidental College. - Ideating, strategizing and executing Women of Economics' marketing campaigns. - Developing Women of Economics' Facebook and Instagram page. - Graphic designer of flyers, notices, and promotional materials for Women Of Economics events (for example, alumnae panels, coffee hours, and study sessions).

Venture Associate

2020 - 2020

- Evaluated startups across biotech, consumer-packaged-good, and agriculture-tech sectors. Conducted startup first screens and due diligence, including team analysis, market sizing, and investment memo creation. - Provided team members a deeper understanding of prospective companies’ PMF by conducting in-depth research and analysis and presenting findings. - Attended “road-show” board meetings in order to build strategic stories and raise next rounds. - Initiated the future Unovis intern program: designed and proposed a formal internship module and created resources for future interns (guidebooks, handbooks, and term/abbreviation flashcards).

Alpha Lambda Phi, Dropout

2019 - 2020

• Proud Ex-Recruitment Chair and Dropout of Alpha Lambda Phi @ Occidental College. • Elected into the Recruitment Chair position of Alpha in 2019 to recruit new candidates, manage the candidate pipeline, and drive successful onboarding strategies for the organization. My campaign was publicly and privately motivated by the desire to drive more diversity within the organization -- across racial, socioeconomic, and political spheres. • Exited Recruitment Chair position & dropped out of Alpha Lambda Phi in late 2020, after attempts to drive & promote diversity within the org were actively unsupported and ignored by the fellow org leadership team. • Post-Exit: Co-authored a public call to action, sent to Oxy's Alpha Lambda Phi email listserv, detailing grievances and providing actionable suggestions for cultural and managerial improvement of the organization.