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Valeria Kholostenko

Principal at LBank Labs

United States

Overview

Work Experience

  • Principal

    2023 - Current

    100 AUM Fund investing in founders and ideas that ignite this bull cycle with ideas and possibilities. Specialties include Fund of Funds, liquid trading and direct investing at Seed stage. Originate and evaluate prospective investment opportunities by leveraging a personally cultivated network of VCs, active participation in conferences, local events, ecosystems and private groups. Conduct comprehensive due diligence on identified deals to inform investment decision-making. Manage the relationship between fund and portfolio companies, support portcos throughout their growth stages and provide the fund quarterly updates on growth, development, and KPIs.

  • Partner

    2021

    We drive growth for seed-stage projects by connecting ideas to a trusted network of capital. With extensive early-stage expertise, we support startups by shaping strategy, leveraging our personal network, connecting top talent, and providing everything needed to scale your vision.

  • Chief Marketing Officer

    2022 - 2022

    Astar Network is the Future of Smart Contracts for MultiChain. Successfully lead marketing teams and initiatives, secure media partnerships, manage a budget of $1Million. GTM, execution, and hiring for the L1, DeFi, NFT, and Gaming ecosystem dApps.

  • Chief Marketing Officer

    2021 - 2022

    Reef Finance is building Reef Chain, a DeFi blockchain built using Substrate Framework. Reef Chain provides high scalability, enabling almost instant low-cost transactions, and supports Solidity and EVM, allowing developers to seamlessly migrate their DApps from Ethereum without any change in the codebase. Our vision is to make DeFi easy for everyone to invest in and build DeFi applications on top of Reef Chain.

  • Head of Partnerships

    2020 - 2021

    Reef is the first cross-chain DeFi operating system on Polkadot. It consists of Global Liquidity Aggregator, Smart Yield Farming Aggregator and Smart Asset Management that tackle DeFi’s biggest liquidity and fragmentation problems.

  • Co-Founder

    2020 - 2022

    Polkadot DeFi Alliance is where industry-leading projects and cutting edge teams come together to propel forward the larger Polkadot ecosystem and the overall cryptocurrency industry. We encourage collaboration, supporting the development of new financial primitives, and integration of existing ones - building towards wider adoption of decentralized finance. Join our monthly panel discussions on the latest developments in DeFi and Polkadot Network with dynamic speakers, rotating hosts, and special guests.

  • Global Partnerships and Strategic Initiatives

    2019 - 2020

    Parity’s mission is to enable businesses and organizations to capitalize on blockchain technology and benefit from the new opportunities it presents. We develop cutting-edge software solutions for enterprises and industries to unlock the full value of decentralized technology. We believe that decentralized technology has the power to fundamentally change and enhance the systems used by businesses, consumers, and governments every day.

  • Advisor

    2018 - 2019

    LUKSO is a blockchain-based ecosystem to create a new global standard for the fashion and lifestyle goods industry. The LUKSO platform will facilitate sophisticated brand innovation and promote a new degree to which brands can engage with their consumer in our increasingly digitized world. LUKSO is not only a blockchain technology to manage digital ownership and authenticity certificates for valuable objects, but furthermore LUKSO is THE Ecosystems for all thinkable use cases when it comes to Fashion and Design, like Ownership Tracking, Rights Management, Supply Chain Tracking, Provenance, Consumer Journey Curation, Tokenized Business Models, Shared Economy, and Asset Management and many more.

  • CMO

    2018 - 2019

  • Head of Development and Global Community

    2017 - 2018

    ConsenSys is a global formation of technologists and entrepreneurs building the infrastructure, applications, and practices on the Ethereum platform that enable a decentralized world.

  • Portfolio Growth Director

    2016 - 2016

    The Sandpit is a business builder for startups focused on marketing technology. We provide hands-on sales and marketing, strategic and operational support, to promote revenue growth so that the tech founders can focus entirely on perfecting their product.

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