Investing Profile

Jon Kol

Investor

Chief Executive Officer at Abacus Works

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NewCo Network

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University of California, Berkeley Network

362 CONNECTIONS

Morgan Stanley Network

235 CONNECTIONS

Morgan Stanley Network

235 CONNECTIONS

Israel Defense Forces 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	$36M
Co-investors: Kyle Doherty (General Catalyst), Wen-Wen Lam (Gradient Ventures), Aaron Applbaum (Kinetica)
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 (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), 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: Kevin Rose (True Ventures), Kyle Samani (Multicoin Capital), Olaf Carlson-Wee (Cryptographic Financial), Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures), Edith Yeung (500 Startups Korea), Chris McCann (Race Capital), Hemant Mohapatra (Lightspeed India Partners), Supachai Kid Parchariyanon (SeaX Ventures), Lyndon Rive
Republic.co	SeedJun 2018$12M	$12M
Co-investors: Jack Greco (Cupule Ventures)
FalconX	SeedN/A$5M	$480M
Co-investors: Rashmi Gopinath (B Capital Group), Scott Shleifer (Tiger Global Management), Rajeev Dham (Sapphire Ventures), Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Brad Gerstner (Altimeter Capital), Aly Walji (Sparq Capital (SFO)), Jacob Conger (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Joe Gerber (IDEO CoLab Ventures), Kumar Dandapani (Cadenza Ventures), Harshul Sanghi (American Express 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

Director Galaxy Digital Full-timePresent

Corporal Israel Defense ForcesPresent

Managing Director GalaxyPresent

Investment Team NewCoPresent

Investment Team FX Palo Alto LaboratoryPresent

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