Parth Chopra
Principal at Bain Capital Crypto
Parth Chopra
Principal at Bain Capital Crypto
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2023 - Current
Bain Capital Crypto builds the next generation of open internet infrastructure.
Product Lead
2021 - 2023
Sole PM when first joined, seeing the business scale from 30 to 300+ employees and 10B+ GMV. Product lead for payments ($100M+ GMV), chain expansion (6+ chains), API (self-serve, 10% of daily GMV), and protocol (Seaport) efforts
OpenSea is an NFT marketplace that enables users to discover, collect, and sell blockchain-based digital assets.
Raised $427,220,000.00 from Kathryn Haun, Coatue, Bossa Invest, Seth Weinstein and Paradigm.
Sequoia Capital Scout
2021 - 2023
Investing & advising pre-seed, seed, and Series A companies through Sequoia's scout program (alongside personal angel/crypto investments). 12+ investments made (2 acq)
Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.
Co-Founder
2020 - 2021
Backed by YCombinator (W20) Started as a way to help people buy real estate together. Pivoted into a platform for decentralized hedge funds with paying financial content creators, millions of dollars in tracked investments, and a team of five. Didn't find PMF but learned a tremendous amount about building something real.
Investing & Incubating
2021 - 2021
Consultant to the Bedrock team helping with sourcing, evaluating, and incubating companies (pre-seed to Series C) Partnerships worked on - Vercel (Series C), Universe (incubation; Seed/A), Rinsed (Seed+), Playground (Seed), Stealth Proptech (Seed)
Product Manager
2018 - 2020
Uber Freight Safety & Insurance New Mobility (NeMo) Incubations Was also part of Kleiner Perkins Product Fellowship
Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.
Raised $30,212,450,000.00 from PayPal.
Technology Sector Leader
2015 - 2018
www.gps100.com Led tech sector team and coverage on all TMT holdings (11.43% portfolio weight at the time). Generated stock ideas, created DCF and revenue projection models, comps analysis, etc.
Global Platinum Securities is a investment company.
Product Manager
2017 - 2017
Joined at the Series A - built and launched several financial products internationally
Juvo is a developer of mobile identity scoring software designed to establish financial identities who are creditworthy.
Raised $67,170,287.00 from Ericsson Ventures, Freestyle Capital and NGP Capital.
Product Manager
2016 - 2016
Ex-Special Projects (was Microsoft Teams!)
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Software Engineer
2015 - 2015
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.