Investing Profile

Jon Kol

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Current Investing Position

Investor

Investment Range

$250K - $5.0M

Sweet Spot

$2.0M

Investments On Record

Jon Kol is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Jon Kol's Investments On Record (14)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Spectral	Series AMay 2021$6.8M SeedOct 2020$600K	$36M
Co-investors: Kyle Doherty (General Catalyst), Wen-Wen Lam (Gradient Ventures), Aaron Applbaum (MizMaa Ventures)
Talos Trading	Series AMay 2021$40M	$40M
Ramp.network	SeedApr 2021$9M	$9M
Radicle	Series AFeb 2021$12M	$24M
Co-investors: Morgan Beller (NFX), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Balaji Srinivasan
The Giving Block	SeedJan 2021$1.1M	$3.1M
Co-investors: Stephen Cole (Trammell Venture Partners)
Solana	Seed RoundJul 2019	$320M
Co-investors: Shaishav T. (FTX Ventures), Kevin Rose (True Ventures), Olaf Carlson-Wee (Polychain Capital), Kyle Samani (Multicoin Capital), Supachai Kid Parchariyanon (SeaX Ventures), Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures), Edith Yeung (Race Capital), Chris McCann (Race Capital), Lyndon Rive
Republic.co	SeedJun 2018$12M	$12M
Co-investors: Jack Greco (Cupule Ventures)
FalconX	SeedN/A$5M	$480M
Co-investors: Scott Shleifer (Tiger Global Management), Rashmi Gopinath (B Capital Group), Rajeev Dham (Sapphire Ventures), Brad Gerstner (Altimeter Capital), Joe Gerber (IDEO CoLab Ventures), Kumar Dandapani (Cadenza Capital Management), Jacob Conger (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Harshul Sanghi (American Express Ventures)

Jon Kol's Media (1)

Counter Positioning — How Upstarts Tackle Incumbents

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most interested in

Interest in companies and networks that are doing something that is uniquely enabled by crypto, what i call a v2 crypto business. That is, you're doing something that is leveraging the native properties of crypto and that could not be done without crypto.

not interested in

Not interested in companies that simply 'put X on a blockchain'. Not interested in crypto tourists or wall st. refugees trying to bring their priors into crypto.

Jon Kol's Education

UC Berkeley Economics Behavioral Economics

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