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Sophia Zhao

Fund, Blockchain Fund, Women's Fund at Alumni Ventures

Vancouver, British Columbia

Overview 

Sophia Zhao is a Partner at Alumni Ventures AI, Women's, and Blockchain Fund, with a strong background in venture capital and investments. With experience at top firms like Galaxy Digital, Huobi US, and Crypto.com, she specializes in Web3 and AI investments, showcasing expertise in due diligence and strategic planning. Highlights of her career include serving as a Senior Principal and Board Observer at Alumni Ventures AI, Women's, and Blockchain Fund, and being an Angel Investor at Jadu. Her current role involves investing in Series B, Series A, and Seed stages in the Web3/Crypto sectors, demonstrating a deep understanding of emerging markets and risk management.

Work Experience 

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Alumni Ventures

  • Partner, AI Fund, Blockchain Fund, Women's Fund

    2024 - Current

    America's Largest Venture Firm for Individuals Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights '24) #1 Most Active US Venture Firm, #3 Globally (PitchBook '22 & '23) 10,000+ individual accredited investors already trust us with their venture investing Fast Company's Most Innovative Personal Finance Company ('22) $1.25B+ raised & 1,300+ portfolio companies since 2014 We are active investors in AI and Web3: ** Web3/AI Infrastructure Aurora Babylon Chain Bitwave Colu ETHSign Nova Labs Lasso Oak Network Pontem Network Qredo Quai Network Secure3 Snicker Doodle Spice AI Subspace Network ** FinTech/Digital Asset Infrastructure Giglabs MintNFT Tibles Ecosapiens Path ** Metaverse/Games Infrastructure and Applications Anything World BitFry GamerGains Mythical Games Pixelynx Stadium Live Upland Napster Transcrypts

  • Senior Principal II, AI Fund, Blockchain Fund, Women's Fund

    2023 - 2024

  • Board Observer

    2023 - 2023

  • Senior Principal, Blockchain Fund

    2022 - 2023

  • Principal, Blockchain Fund

    2021 - 2022

Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital investment firm that manages fund families that invest in a portfolio of companies.

Raised $500,000.00 from Michael Bunning.

av.vc
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Blockchain Builders Fund

  • LP

    2023

Blockchain Builders Fund encourages, develops, and invests in technologies and applications that promote mainstream blockchain use.

blockchainbuilders.fund
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Jadu

  • Angel Investor

    2022

Augmented Reality Gaming from the Future

Raised $43,000,000.00 from Cozomo De’Medici, The Venture Reality Fund/VRF, Bain Capital Crypto, Permit Ventures, WAGMI Ventures, Position Ventures, LG Technology Ventures, XRM Media and Alumni Ventures.

jadu.ar
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ETHGlobal

  • Hackathon Judge

    2021

ETHGlobal and developer communities, and push the limits of new technologies thousands of developers into the ethereum ecosystem.

ethglobal.com
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Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator

  • Mentor

    2021

Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator is a blockchain startup accelerator run by UC Berkeley.

xcelerator.berkeley.edu
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Global Women in VC

  • Member

    2021

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Algorand Miami Accelerator

  • Mentor

    2021 - 2023

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Harmony

  • Incubator Dao Governor

    2021 - 2022

Harmony is a secure blockchain aimed to scale trust and create a radically fair economy.

Raised $18,000,000.00 from Outliers Fund.

harmony.one
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Solana Labs

  • Hackathon Judge

    2021 - 2022

Solana is a blockchain platform designed for decentralized applications (dApps) and cryptocurrencies.

Raised $319,523,800.00 from Grand 365 Capital.

solana.com
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Crypto.com

  • Institutional Manager, North America & EU

    2020 - 2021

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