Investing Profile

Jon Kol

Investor

Chief Executive Officer at Abacus Works

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Morgan Stanley Network

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UC Berkeley Network

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Current Investing Position

Abacus Works

Investment Range

$250K - $5.0M

Sweet Spot

$2.0M

Investments On Record

Jon Kol is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Gaming/eSports (Seed)Gaming/eSports (Series A)Web3/Blockchain (Seed)Web3/Blockchain (Series A)Space (Seed)Space (Series A)Diverse Investors Investors who invested in female founders Investors who invested in diverse founders Web3/Crypto (Series A)Web3/Crypto (Seed)Space (Pre-seed)Gaming/eSports (Pre-seed)Web3/Blockchain (Pre-seed)Web3/Crypto (Pre-seed)

Jon Kol's Investments On Record (14)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Spectral	Series AMay 2021$6.8M SeedOct 2020$600K	$7.4M
Talos Trading	Series AMay 2021$40M	$40M
Ramp.network	SeedApr 2021$9M	$9M
Radicle	Series AFeb 2021$12M	$12M
The Giving Block	SeedJan 2021$1.1M	$1.1M
Solana	Seed RoundJul 2019	$4M
Co-investors: Supachai Kid Parchariyanon (SeaX Ventures)
Republic.co	SeedJun 2018$12M	$12M
Co-investors: Jack Greco (Cupule Ventures)
FalconX	SeedN/A$5M	$260M
Co-investors: Jacob Conger (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Joe Gerber (IDEO CoLab Ventures)

Jon Kol's Media (1)

Counter Positioning — How Upstarts Tackle Incumbents

medium.com

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 Experience

Chief Executive Officer Abacus Works2022 - Present

Managing Director Galaxy Digital2019 - 2022

Investment Team Passport Capital2018 - 2019

Fixed Income Analyst Morgan Stanley2016 - 2018

Summer Analyst Morgan Stanley2015 - 2015

Corporal Israeli Defense Forces2008 - 2010

Jon Kol's Education

UC Berkeley Economics Behavioral Economics

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