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Parth Chopra

Principal at Bain Capital Crypto

New York, New York

Overview

Work Experience

  • Principal

    2023 - Current

  • 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

  • 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)

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Product Manager

    2017 - 2017

    Joined at the Series A - built and launched several financial products internationally

  • Product Manager

    2016 - 2016

    Ex-Special Projects (was Microsoft Teams!)

  • Software Engineer

    2015 - 2015

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