Katherine is a Venture Partner at Archetype. Prior to joining Archetype, Katherine was a Senior Lead at Coinbase Ventures, where she scaled the investment practice and oversaw a record-breaking year in dealmaking. Before Coinbase, Katherine advised a number of crypto companies including Balancer Labs, Solana Labs, and the Ethereum Foundation. She was also the first business hire at Messari.

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Katherine is the inaugural Research Fellow at the Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI), where she generates and oversees research projects that document the opportunities and challenges faced by the crypto industry in policy advocacy globally.

Danny is a Principal at Archetype supporting firm management, diligence, and the build out of industry-leading operational infrastructure. 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.

Katie is a Principal at Archetype. Before joining Archetype, Katie was an Analyst at Coinbase Ventures, focused on consumer investments and DAO governance research. Katie was also previously a core contributor/talent scout at Friends with Benefits and a Gitcoin KERNEL fellow.

Benjamin is an Analyst at Archetype, where he focuses on both investments and research in mechanism design and futuristic onchain applications. Prior to joining Archetype, he led product development at an NFTfi startup.

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 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 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.

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 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. 

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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 is 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.

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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.