Sheridan Hammond

General Partner at Zero Age Ventures

Founder
2017 - Current
Kosmos Ventures is an Australian investment firm founded in early 2017, focused on helping blockchain startups scale and integrate their technology into our future. We have decades of combined experience from Citigroup, Mail.ru Group, Renaissance Capital, Magic Leap, Chevron. Our team diversity creates and allowes for radical and sometimes controversial investment decisions that generated over 100x returns on ocasions. With over 100 investments since inception we were among ealry backers of projects like Algorand, Oasis, Solana, NuCypher and early investors in Polkadot, Filecoin, Icon all generating exceptional returns for our clients.

General Partner
2022
Zero Age Ventures is Fund II of Kosmos VC - Australia's most prominent early-stage VC and seed investor in leading protocols such as Solana, Polkadot, Algorand, Graph, Mina, Oasis, etc. Zero Age is a thesis-driven fund with an in-house engineering and research team. Zero Age supports protocols that enhance distributed system scalability and dApp developers who use blockchain's unique attributes to foster novel consumer behaviors. Primary focus: • Creating network effects via token/product design • Implementing go-to-market strategies (including the diverse token launch design space) • Establishing governance • Fostering community building

Business Owner
2020 - 2023
IMMMORTALIS presents a comfort for the commercial rigours to support general oceanographic research. In particular hydrographic research, extensive diving and laboratory requirements. She also boasts plenty of space for use as a shadow/support vessel or for extensive long range research trips. Privately owned and operated we thrive upon delivering high quality expeditions chartering for surfing, diving, fishing or other explorations. Our exclusive expeditions can service 12 guests for luxury private explorer trips in south east Asia, the Pacific and Australia. These tailor made expeditions will take clients into the pristine waters of some of the most remote and unchartered areas in the world. Astounding cultural diversity, colourful wildlife, volcanic landscapes and a cultural treasure chest awaits our clients aboard the comfort and security of this unique vessel. Nature’s most diverse water habitats become the playground for intrepid travelers to explore whilst escaping the rest of the world.

Founder and CEO
2004 - 2017
Samudra was born out of a desire to inspire and support others on a journey to understanding the values of making healthy choices in our lives - physically, spiritually and energetically. Founded in 2004 by Sheridan Hammond, Samudra specialised in retreats where guests could step out of their worlds and immerse themselves in yoga, surfing and nutrition. For many guests the experience was profound and through this success, the need for a permanent space was born. This was achieved in 2007 when Laura Leaver joined Sheridan as Co-Founder and Samudra’s home location was created. Samudra has a hybrid model of online and offline stores and it had grown exponentially island-wide in Australia, before ceasing the operation.

Investor
1992 - 2017
Sheridan holds a long-term property portfolio in his investment career. He bought the first property at his age of 17 and has a number of private house and commercial property investment experiences for more than twenty years.