SPEAKER’S PROFILE

Richard is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Fabric Ventures. Fabric backs the founders ofthe Open Economy. investing in builders, businesses and digital assets from inception to scalingsince 2012. Fabric invested in the likes of Polkadot, Ocean Protocol, Orchid, Sorare, 1inch, TheGraph, and NEAR.Richard combines a pedigree in open source, developer-oriented tools, and early stage ventureinvesting with blockchain focus since 2012, and has invested in Pantera Venture Fund I,Bitstamp, Bitrise, Tray.io, TransferWise, and Citymapper. Richard has previously exited 3software companies as an entrepreneur, building/ scaling Automic (CA), Tideway (BMC), andOrchestream (Oracle) – reaching a cumulative market cap of $2.2bn.