Team
An archetype represents “the foundational pattern or model.”

We believe crypto is completely disrupting the models of today, and that the models of tomorrow are early-stage companies and protocols that have yet to be discovered.

At Archetype, we provide the next generation of crypto founders with the knowledge of a diverse team with experience across investing, engineering, protocol and mechanism design, policy, community-building, and more.
Ash Egan
Founder and General Partner
Ash is the Founder and General Partner of Archetype. Ash has been leading investments in seed-stage crypto companies and protocols since 2015, having led early investments in Chainalysis (2015), Mina (2017), Near (2018), and Balancer (2019). He also led Accomplice's investments in Dapper Labs/Flow (2018), and Bison Trails (2018) [acq. Coinbase], among others.‍ Before founding Archetype, Ash was a Partner at Accomplice leading the firm’s blockchain/crypto practice. He also previously co-launched the venture arm of Consensys and spent time at Converge VC in Boston.
Dmitriy Berenzon
Partner
Dmitriy is a Partner at Archetype, where he drives research and investments across crypto-native infrastructure, DePin, and DeFi. He was previously a Research Partner at 1k(x), where he focused on research, investments, and working with founders on fundraising, business development, and token model design. ‍Prior to 1k(x), Dmitriy was a Research Partner at Bollinger Investment Group, a crypto-focused family office, and worked with CoinFund, a crypto-focused investment firm. Before becoming an investor, Dmitriy spent six years at Deutsche Bank across a number of strategy and innovation roles. Dmitriy holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and is a proud Blockchain@Berkeley alumni.‍
Danny Sursock
Partner
Danny is a Partner at Archetype, where he leads the firm’s AI research and investments while also supporting overall fund strategy, management, and LP relations. Previously, Danny was a Senior Associate in Oppenheimer’s Investment Banking division where he helped build out a team advising $25B in growth equity M&A and raising $6B+ in capital for emerging technology companies.‍
Katherine Wu
Venture Partner
Katherine Wu is the Chief Operating Officer of ENS Labs, where she oversees the company’s growth initiatives, strategic direction, and operations. She is also a Venture Partner at Archetype. Previously, she was the Senior Lead at Coinbase Ventures, where she led investments and played a key role in establishing it as one of the most active corporate venture funds.‍ Katherine has over a decade of experience spanning legal, investment, and advisory roles, working with premier projects and industry-leading companies in the web3 space. Before Coinbase, Katherine was a Principal at Notation Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm, and was the first business hire at Messari, a leading provider of crypto market intelligence products.‍
Ben Tenenbaum
Chief Financial Officer
Ben is the Chief Financial Officer at Archetype. Prior to joining Archetype, Ben was a Partner at a top 10 global accounting and advisory firm, where Ben built out and led the crypto funds assurance vertical within the firm's Digital Asset and Blockchain practice. Ben has nearly 15 years of public accounting industry experience providing cutting edge accounting, assurance, and business advisory services to venture capital funds, private equity funds, hedge funds, and institutional asset managers, working exclusively with digital asset and blockchain focused managers since 2021. ‍Ben was also previously a member of the Digital Chamber of Commerce where he participated in working groups advising policymakers on complex regulatory challenges surrounding the digital asset industry. Ben is a licensed CPA in New York State.
Katie Chiou
Principal
Katie is a Principal at Archetype, specializing in consumer investments and research. Before joining Archetype, Katie was an Analyst at Coinbase Ventures. Katie was also previously a core contributor at the DAO Friends with Benefits.
Aadharsh Pannirselvam
Associate
Aadharsh is an Associate at Archetype, focusing on investments and research with regards to applied cryptography and decentralized AI. Previously, he worked at Galaxy Ventures and Flipside Crypto, a crypto-native data science startup.
Tommy Hang
Analyst
Tommy is an Analyst at Archetype, specializing in DeFi investments and research. Before joining Archetype, he served as the president of Blockchain at Berkeley. Tommy also previously was a founder of a crypto startup, as well as previously worked in engineering roles at crypto companies including Camp Network and Arbitrum.
Nick Pai
Research Partner
Nick is a Research Partner at Archetype, focused on advising portfolio companies on building sustainable decentralized architecture. Nick is also an early engineer at UMA protocol where he co-leads the smart contract team building an optimistic oracle ecosystem secured by economic incentives.
Will Kantaros
Research Partner
Will is a Research Partner at Archetype, focused on mechanism design research and the interoperability stack. Outside of Archetype, he is the Co-Founder and CTO of Decent, solving cross-chain, single click payments. Before joining Archetype and founding Decent, Will spent time at Meta, Coinbase, and Polychain.
Tyler Gehringer
Marketing Lead
Tyler is the Marketing Lead at Archetype. Prior to joining Archetype, he worked as a freelance media producer, contributing to the content production and marketing efforts of several DAOs and crypto companies. He previously worked as a marketing and communications coordinator at a digital agency in Austin, Texas.
Katie Hazel
Network Operations Associate
Katie is the Network Operations Associate at Archetype, supporting the firm’s platform and administrative initiatives. Before joining Archetype, Katie was an Office and Events Coordinator at Lightspeed Venture Partners, helping launch their European branch. Previously, Katie was a licensed psychotherapist for students at UC Berkeley.
David Wong
Research Advisor
David Wong is Co-Founder of zkSecurity, a zero-knowledge security auditing firm. Prior to founding zkSecurity, David was a Cryptography Architect at O(1) Labs where he worked on the Mina cryptocurrency. Prior to O(1) Labs, he was the security lead for the Diem (formally known as Libra) cryptocurrency at Novi (Facebook). David has also spent time as a security consultant at the Cryptography Services practice of NCC Group. ‍David is the author of Real-World Cryptography, a practical guide detailing the cryptographic techniques that drive the security of web APIs, registering and logging in users, and blockchains. At Archetype, David provides research and due diligence support related to cryptography, zero-knowledge, security, and protocol design.
Andrew Hong
Research Advisor
Andrew Hong was previously the Headmaster at Dune, the leading crypto community data platform. Prior to Dune, he was the data scientist at Mirror.xyz working on data infra, community social graph analysis, and tokenomics. At Archetype, Andrew provides data-driven research, portfolio support, and builds public goods related to onchain data.‍ Andrew is the creator of Crypto Data Bytes, a newsletter with guides to crypto data. He is also the founder of Bytexplorers, an onchain community of onchain data experts.
Ash
 
Egan
Founder and General Partner
Ash is the Founder and General Partner of Archetype. Ash has been leading investments in seed-stage crypto companies and protocols since 2015, having led early investments in Chainalysis (2015), Mina (2017), Near (2018), and Balancer (2019). He also led Accomplice's investments in Dapper Labs/Flow (2018), and Bison Trails (2018) [acq. Coinbase], among others.‍ Before founding Archetype, Ash was a Partner at Accomplice leading the firm’s blockchain/crypto practice. He also previously co-launched the venture arm of Consensys and spent time at Converge VC in Boston.
Dmitriy
 
Berenzon
Partner
Dmitriy is a Partner at Archetype, where he drives research and investments across crypto-native infrastructure, DePin, and DeFi. He was previously a Research Partner at 1k(x), where he focused on research, investments, and working with founders on fundraising, business development, and token model design. ‍Prior to 1k(x), Dmitriy was a Research Partner at Bollinger Investment Group, a crypto-focused family office, and worked with CoinFund, a crypto-focused investment firm. Before becoming an investor, Dmitriy spent six years at Deutsche Bank across a number of strategy and innovation roles. Dmitriy holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and is a proud Blockchain@Berkeley alumni.‍
Danny
 
Sursock
Partner
Danny is a Partner at Archetype, where he leads the firm’s AI research and investments while also supporting overall fund strategy, management, and LP relations. Previously, Danny was a Senior Associate in Oppenheimer’s Investment Banking division where he helped build out a team advising $25B in growth equity M&A and raising $6B+ in capital for emerging technology companies.‍
Katherine
 
Wu
Venture Partner
Katherine Wu is the Chief Operating Officer of ENS Labs, where she oversees the company’s growth initiatives, strategic direction, and operations. She is also a Venture Partner at Archetype. Previously, she was the Senior Lead at Coinbase Ventures, where she led investments and played a key role in establishing it as one of the most active corporate venture funds.‍ Katherine has over a decade of experience spanning legal, investment, and advisory roles, working with premier projects and industry-leading companies in the web3 space. Before Coinbase, Katherine was a Principal at Notation Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm, and was the first business hire at Messari, a leading provider of crypto market intelligence products.‍
Ben
 
Tenenbaum
Chief Financial Officer
Ben is the Chief Financial Officer at Archetype. Prior to joining Archetype, Ben was a Partner at a top 10 global accounting and advisory firm, where Ben built out and led the crypto funds assurance vertical within the firm's Digital Asset and Blockchain practice. Ben has nearly 15 years of public accounting industry experience providing cutting edge accounting, assurance, and business advisory services to venture capital funds, private equity funds, hedge funds, and institutional asset managers, working exclusively with digital asset and blockchain focused managers since 2021. ‍Ben was also previously a member of the Digital Chamber of Commerce where he participated in working groups advising policymakers on complex regulatory challenges surrounding the digital asset industry. Ben is a licensed CPA in New York State.
Katie
 
Chiou
Principal
Katie is a Principal at Archetype, specializing in consumer investments and research. Before joining Archetype, Katie was an Analyst at Coinbase Ventures. Katie was also previously a core contributor at the DAO Friends with Benefits.
Aadharsh
 
Pannirselvam
Associate
Aadharsh is an Associate at Archetype, focusing on investments and research with regards to applied cryptography and decentralized AI. Previously, he worked at Galaxy Ventures and Flipside Crypto, a crypto-native data science startup.
Tommy
 
Hang
Analyst
Tommy is an Analyst at Archetype, specializing in DeFi investments and research. Before joining Archetype, he served as the president of Blockchain at Berkeley. Tommy also previously was a founder of a crypto startup, as well as previously worked in engineering roles at crypto companies including Camp Network and Arbitrum.
Nick
 
Pai
Research Partner
Nick is a Research Partner at Archetype, focused on advising portfolio companies on building sustainable decentralized architecture. Nick is also an early engineer at UMA protocol where he co-leads the smart contract team building an optimistic oracle ecosystem secured by economic incentives.
Will
 
Kantaros
Research Partner
Will is a Research Partner at Archetype, focused on mechanism design research and the interoperability stack. Outside of Archetype, he is the Co-Founder and CTO of Decent, solving cross-chain, single click payments. Before joining Archetype and founding Decent, Will spent time at Meta, Coinbase, and Polychain.
Tyler
 
Gehringer
Marketing Lead
Tyler is the Marketing Lead at Archetype. Prior to joining Archetype, he worked as a freelance media producer, contributing to the content production and marketing efforts of several DAOs and crypto companies. He previously worked as a marketing and communications coordinator at a digital agency in Austin, Texas.
Katie
 
Hazel
Network Operations Associate
Katie is the Network Operations Associate at Archetype, supporting the firm’s platform and administrative initiatives. Before joining Archetype, Katie was an Office and Events Coordinator at Lightspeed Venture Partners, helping launch their European branch. Previously, Katie was a licensed psychotherapist for students at UC Berkeley.
David
 
Wong
Research Advisor
David Wong is Co-Founder of zkSecurity, a zero-knowledge security auditing firm. Prior to founding zkSecurity, David was a Cryptography Architect at O(1) Labs where he worked on the Mina cryptocurrency. Prior to O(1) Labs, he was the security lead for the Diem (formally known as Libra) cryptocurrency at Novi (Facebook). David has also spent time as a security consultant at the Cryptography Services practice of NCC Group. ‍David is the author of Real-World Cryptography, a practical guide detailing the cryptographic techniques that drive the security of web APIs, registering and logging in users, and blockchains. At Archetype, David provides research and due diligence support related to cryptography, zero-knowledge, security, and protocol design.
Andrew
 
Hong
Research Advisor
Andrew Hong was previously the Headmaster at Dune, the leading crypto community data platform. Prior to Dune, he was the data scientist at Mirror.xyz working on data infra, community social graph analysis, and tokenomics. At Archetype, Andrew provides data-driven research, portfolio support, and builds public goods related to onchain data.‍ Andrew is the creator of Crypto Data Bytes, a newsletter with guides to crypto data. He is also the founder of Bytexplorers, an onchain community of onchain data experts.