Peter Yuan Pan
Founder of Hydra Ventures
Lisbon, Lisbon
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2020 - Current
Early stage investing: https://twitter.com/pet3rpan_
Co-founder & Co-Summoner
2022
First dedicated fund of funds for investment DAOs. Incubated by 1kx.
Hydra Ventures DAO provides investment and incubation solutions as well as guidance for DAO companies in the web3 ecosystem.
Raised $10,000,000.00 from seedclub, Wicklow Capital, Collab+Currency, NxGen.xyz, 1kx and ConsenSys.
Co-founder & Summoner
2019 - 2023
Invested in the Ethereum's earliest cohort of end user applications during 2019-2021, with a focus on being the first check. Became the first live legally wrapped investment DAO to ever have launched.
Summoner
2018 - 2022
Created Ethereum's first dedicated founder community focused on end user applications.
Product manager
2018 - 2018
Building and working on meta transactions in the Ethereum ecosystem
UX Design Mentor
2017 - 2018
Teaching design and product thinking for the 12 week UX beginners course.
Lead Designer
2017 - 2018
Lead user research, design and product discovery for CancerAid's patient-facing mobile app. Company was backed by TechStars '17 Health tech accelerator.
Digital Health company
Lead Designer
2016 - 2017
Design and research around 1Scope’s web app. UX research, UI design, user testing, and product growth.
Maker
2017 - 2017
Tried to build a product that helps product people transcribe, make notes and collect insights. Talked to 30+ designers & PMs and surveyed over 100 potential customers ranging from Dell, StackOverflow, ColumbiaU, Tyro & ING Bank. Discontinued the project after discovering the product: Notion.so
Contributing Writer
2017 - 2017
Wrote some articles that were published in UXDesign.cc, also participated in Product Coalition and Design Hangout communities.
UX Collective designs publications and blogs built to elevate unheard design voices all over the world.