Ben Lakoff, CFA

About

**I rarely check LinkedIn messages, and do not respond to pitches on LinkedIn** **Early stage crypto and web3 startups interested in pitching Bankless Ventures, please email us at “invest@” or submit a deck on our site. **All other inquiries please reach me on Twitter @benlakoff I am a General Partner at Bankless Ventures, an early-stage Web3 fund to empower pioneers to explore the frontier of Web3 and go #bankless. Bankless Ventures closed Fund I in June ‘23 and we are currently preparing for Fund II. Bankless Ventures is backed by Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, as well as many founders of top projects and GPs from top funds from within the web3 space. We have a truly awesome LP base. My background is in Finance (CFA), but I’m obsessed with startups in general. Prior to Bankless Ventures as a builder I was a co-founder at Charged Particles, a protocol innovating with NFTs since 2019. As an investor I was an active angel investor with >75 angel investments since 2016, and a LP in a couple funds. I’m currently also an advisor to a few companies in the space and am currently mentoring at a few popular Web3 incubators.

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