Meet the Top 1 %

I’m an entrepreneurial investor passionate about venture investing & building, frontier technologies (AI, blockchain & digital assets, space tech, climate and energy tech, life sciences, neurotech), sustainability, mental health, longevity & wellness, automotive & motorsports, luxury goods, and travel & hospitality.

Currently I’m founder & Managing Partner at Vanquish Venture Partners, a venture capital firm investing in innovators playing to win.

I’m an inveterate connector of extraordinary human beings who frequently colors outside the lines and thrives on helping founders accomplish legendary outcomes while helping investors produce stellar returns & impact.

I manage $1.2B+ in assets across all vehicles to date.

My Limited Partner community includes:

1) C-suites/Managing Partners (current and former) of: Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citadel, Bridgewater Associates, Oaktree Capital, Apollo Global, Point72, PayPal, Alibaba, Hillhouse Capital, NBC Universal, General Motors, Swiss Re, Discover, PizzaHut, DoorDash, DocuSign, Sandoz, Gusto, Guinness, Bitmain, Thomson Reuters, Yahoo, Zynga, the Dallas Cowboys, BlockTower Capital, and TopGolf; and

2) Board Members (current and former) of: BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, MasterCard, MIO Partners, Fortress, BNY Mellon, RBC, Altria, ARM Semiconductor, SoFi, Warburg Pincus, Kraft, SABMiller, Cognizant, Western Union, Raine Group, Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Wharton, and Johns Hopkins University.

Evin McMullen is the CEO and Co-founder of Billions Network, the first universal human and AI network. Billions is on a mission to save the internet in the age of AI with its mobile-first full stack solution that verifies both humans and AI agents: proving uniqueness, KYC/AML status, location, age, and reputation, without revealing sensitive data. Billions Network stewards the largest ecosystem of verified AI agents and the most popular zk libraries on earth.

Her previous work includes early blockchain development for retail and enterprise, and hardware and experience design for autonomous automotive, beauty, healthcare & connected home. Evin has contributed as a leader in data standards and onchain identity, spearheading some of the first initiatives using onchain reputation technology with global-scale brand events, festivals and connected media.

Evin previously served as CEO and founder of verifiable data platform Disco.xyz, and as a Director at Berkshire Hathaway and ConsenSys. She is a cofounder of DAO Jones and inkDAO, and an advisor to Boys Club. She is a graduate of Yale University.

Teresa Goody Guillén is the founding Managing Partner of Bellementis PLLC. Her practice spans securities, litigation, investigations, and corporate matters, with a particular focus on financial markets, digital assets, and emerging technologies. She has spent her career representing the firms, founders, and individuals at the leading edge of capital and crypto markets — including public and private companies, financial institutions, investment managers, boards of directors, and corporate officers — in complex financial, disclosure, and corporate governance matters.

Ms. Goody Guillén represents clients in sensitive enforcement matters, internal and independent investigations, and disputes involving disclosure, governance, and regulatory risk. She has obtained favorable resolutions for executives and companies in SEC, DOJ, CFTC, FBI, and Congressional investigations and other government inquiries, including civil and criminal matters and in the context of traditional and digital assets.

Since 2015, a significant portion of her practice involves advising clients at the intersection of federal securities laws and digital asset markets. She represents issuers, trading platforms, investment funds, and other market participants in matters involving token offerings, market structure, and the regulatory classification of digital assets, and counsels on engagement with the SEC, CFTC, and other authorities in connection with emerging financial technologies

Chris Williams is an accomplished entrepreneur and co-founder of Messiah Network, a Node-as-a-Service platform designed to make decentralized infrastructure accessible to everyone. Messiah empowers both individuals and enterprises to deploy, manage, and scale blockchain nodes with ease, driving true decentralisation and accelerating mass adoption of Web3 technology.Before entering the crypto space in 2017, Chris built his career at the intersection of technology, business development, and marketing within the defence and security sector, where he specialised in bringing bleeding-edge innovations to market.Since transitioning into blockchain, he has led marketing and growth strategies for several top-100 crypto projects, including the fastest-growing token project in history, which reached a $1 billion market cap in just three weeks.Chris is passionate about decentralisation, infrastructure sovereignty, and building systems that empower people everywhere to take part in a more open, secure, and censorship-resistant internet.

Marcin leads strategy and go-to-market at RedStone, the fastest-growing blockchain Oracle, and at Credora, the largest DeFi Ratings platform. RedStone holds the top 3 position globally by the number of clients (200+ B2B clients) and Total Value of Assets Secured ($10+ billion). RedStone is the official oracle for Securitize, BlackRock BUIDL, Apollo ACRED, VanEck VBILL, Hamilton Lane SCOPE and other tokenized funds, backed by veterans like Mike Arrington, co-founder of TechCrunch.

Marcin has been in the blockchain industry since 2018, ex-Google Cloud PM with a background in quantitative methods in economics. Co-founder of ETHWarsaw, the largest technical crypto conference in the CEE region. Laureate of Forbes 30 under 30 Poland. Speaker at global crypto events including Consensus, Token2049, ETHcc, ETHDenver, Ethereum Zurich and more.

Vineet Budki is CEO and Managing Partner of Sigma Capital and has been a known face in the Web3 Venture Investment Space. Prior to Sigma, he headed Cypher Capital, one of the Biggest Web3 Fund’s Globally with 300+ Investments across 2 funds and having half a billion in AUM.

Vineet has been named in the Top 100 Indians in the Middle East multiple times and was recognized in the Top 10 Crypto Personalities Globally in 2024 by Arabian Business.

Evgeny is the Founder and CIO of Re7 Capital. He has over 16 years of investment management experience, including a decade in crypto markets. He began investing in digital assets in 2016, recognising early on that decentralised finance could reshape traditional finance. In 2021, he founded Re7 Capital, which has since deployed over $1 billion across DeFi protocols.