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Ben Davenport(131)

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18 Investors

Connected to Morgan Beller (NFX), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Cyan Banister (Long Journey Ventures), and 15 other investors on Signal.

Networks Ben is a member of
Microsoft Network
149 CONNECTIONS
Facebook Network
120 CONNECTIONS
Princeton University Network
119 CONNECTIONS
University of Washington Network
44 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Blockchain Capital Venture Partner
Investment Range
$25K - $200K
Sweet Spot
$50K
Investments On Record
38

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Ben Davenport's Investments On Record (38)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Magic
Series AJul 2021$27M
$180M
Co-investors: Jason Warner (Redpoint Ventures), Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Wendy Xiao (Northzone), Alex Bouaziz (Sarona Ventures), Miyuki Matsumoto (Aglae Ventures), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Shahed Khan (Hyper), Soona Amhaz (Volt Capital), Joel Monegro (Placeholder), Alex MacCaw (Earl Grey Capital), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Jana Messerschmidt (#ANGELS (Hashtag ANGELS)), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Kevin Moore (KRM Interests LLC), Sahin Boydas, Sahil Lavingia, Varsha Rao, Balaji Srinivasan, Scott Belsky, Ron Pragides, Ben Porterfield, Guillermo Rauch, Casey Neistat, Paul Yacoubian, DROdio - Daniel R. Odio, Elad Gil, Florian Huber, Fredrik Hjelm
Strattic
SeedFeb 2020$7M
$7M
Co-investors: Eric Ries
Culture Biosciences
Series UnknownFeb 2019$6M
$100M
Co-investors: Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Zal Bilimoria (Refactor Capital), Steven Lurie (Team Builder Ventures), Kyle Kurpinski (Tencent Holdings), Michael Dempsey (Compound), Dan Phillips (Sandbox Industries), Andrew Lee (Northpond Ventures)
Nomics
Series ADec 2018$3M
$3M
Co-investors: Patrick Meenan (Arthur Ventures)
Momentus
SeedNov 2018$8M
$34M
Co-investors: Erik Buchanan (C3 Ventures), Dakin Sloss (Prime Movers Lab), Kingsley Advani (305 Ventures), Maximilian Winter (Harmonix Fund), Ryan McCalley (SQN Venture Partners)
RADAR
Series AAug 2018$10M
$59M
Co-investors: Spencer Bogart (Blockchain Capital), Andrew Fine (Novel TMT), Jordan Nof (Tusk Venture Partners), Bradley Tusk (Tusk Venture Partners)
Lightning Labs
SeedMar 2018$3M
$93M
Co-investors: Howard Morgan (B Capital Group), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Phil Chen (Race Capital), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capitail)), Bill Lee (Craft Ventures), David Sacks (Craft Ventures), Latif Peracha (M13), Brian Murray (Craft Ventures), Karl Alomar (M13), Chris McCann (Race Capital), Tikhon Bernstam, Jacqueline Reses
DeepSig
SeedMar 2018$2M
$7M
Co-investors: Bradley C. Harrison (Scout Ventures), Michael Sutton (Blu Venture Investors), Pradeep Kaul (Blu Venture Investors)

Ben Davenport's Experience

CTO / Co-founder BitGo, Inc.2015 - Present
Chief Product Officer / Co-founder BitGo2014 - 2015
Software Engineer Facebook2011 - 2014
Co-Founder and CEO Beluga Inc.2010 - 2011
Analyst Hudson River Trading2008 - 2010
Software engineer Google Inc.2003 - 2005
Software engineer Microsoft1998 - 2003
Software engineer Mercury Mail / InfoBeat1995 - 1998

Ben Davenport's Education

University of Washington Master’s Degree
Princeton University Engineer’s Degree
NCSSM High School