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Bill Qian is the Chairman of Cypher Capital. Prior to joining Cypher Capital, he was the Global Head of Fundraising, Binance Labs, and M&A for Binance. Before that, he was the Head of Investment of Fintech/Tech for JD.COM, an Asian internet giant with an annual e-commerce transaction value of more than $400 billion. Bill has also worked with Trustbridge Partners, a leading technology-focused private equity fund with more than $15 billion in assets under management, and has invested and managed over $20 billion in Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 projects in his career. Bill considers himself a "web-native investor" and is looking for exceptional founders in the Web 3.0 industry.
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Chase Guo
Chase Guo is the Co-Founder of Sleek and Molecule. Previously, he was the Investment Director at Binance Labs.
Batuhan Dasgin
Batuhan Dasgin is a director of the Celestia Foundation and was previously co-head of Binance Labs and Head of Business Development at CoinMarketCap.
Teck Chia
Venture arm of Binance. Formerly, Teck is the founder and CEO of Dimension.ai, Papers.ai, OpenAppMkt... Teck Chia was previously a partner at Binance Labs. He is a serial entrepreneur, having founded Dimension.ai, Papers.ai, HashTrust, OpenAppMkt, and others. Previously, he was a product manager at Facebook. Teck graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Computer science.
Eric Bai
Eric Bai is a founding partner of Cipholio Ventures and CEO of Meta Era. He previously worked at Binance and Bitmart. He graduated from East China University of Political Science and Law and New York University.
Farbod Nassiri
Farbod Nassiri is the Finance Manager at Cypher Capital. Having joined the Phoenix Group in 2021 as a Day Trader Farbod’s attention to detail and work ethic quickly saw him promoted to Finance Manager for the newly established Cypher Capital in 2022. With more than 12 years of experience in the field of civil and marine construction along with a history of operational and coordinating excellence Farbod excels in his chosen field. Farbod also has a passion for Blockchain projects and Crypto in general and he lends this expertise to the wider Phoenix Group daily. Holding a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Farbod speaks Farsi and English fluently.
Tyler Zhou
Tyler Zhou is co-founder and chief operating officer of Sahara and previously Chief Investment Officer of Binance Labs. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ken Li
Ken Li is a partner at f.actor and the former investment director of Binance Labs. He graduated from Harvard University.
Charles Lu
Charles Lu is the Co-Founder of Espresso Systems. He previously worked at Binance Labs. Charles Lu has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford.
Zoe Wei
Zoe Wei is the Head of Developer Relations at BNB Chain.
Yi He
He Yi, Co-Founder of Binance, has served as Vice President of Technology and Host of Travel TV. Furthermore, she is also Co-Founder of OKCoin.