Kevin Ding

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LP and early backer @ Polychain Capital
California, United States
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San Francisco Bay Area, United States, United States
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About Kevin Ding

Investor, builder, cryptographer.GP of funds totaling over 1B in capital for incubation and investment. Working/researching at the frontiers of AI and blockchain technologies since 2013. Over the years, I've built great relationships with leading minds in the core academic and entrepreneurial ecosystems. I'm often the 1st signal investor in daring technical founders with contrarian ideas, and leverage my broad range of resources/experiences to incubate category defining company. Nothing excites me more than incubating shoulder to shoulder with our entrepreneurial partners to bring a seemingly contrarian vision to reality. Since 2013, I've been one of the earliest backers in 20+ unicorn AI companies and 30+ leading crypto protocols, such as:*Deliverr(Seed/A, acq'ed by Shopify for $2.1B), *Flexport(A, ~a16z led $8B val), *Branch Metrics(B, $4B val), *Viz.ai(Seed/A,$1.2B val), *AutoX(Seed, ~$3B val), *Tubi (A, by Fox for $500M), *Grubmarket(A, ~$1B val), *Rippling(Seed, KPCB led $11B val) , PayJoy, *Cohesity(B,C, $5B val), *Mercury (Seed,$1.6B val), *Density (A, $1B val), *Side (Seed, $2B val), Roblox, Plaid, *Optimizely (acq'ed by Episerver), *Cognito (acq'ed by Plaid), *PathAI , *OtterAI, *Beam, DialPad, Anthropic, Perplexity, Rewind AI, Stability AI, Cohere, Tavus, CoreWeave, xAI, openAI, Plaid. *IPFS/Filecoin (Seed, ~$10B), Dfinity, *Hadera (Seed, ~$10B), *Compound (Seed, ~$5B), *Cosmos(A, ~$5B), *Brave Browser (Seed, ~$1B), *Fantom (Seed, ~$5B), *Ontology (Seed), *Chia, *Certik (Seed, ~$2B), *Starkware (Seed, ~$8B), Avalanche, FedML, Babylon(Seed), *Eigenlayer, LayerZero, Theta(Seed, ~$5B), Figure, Celer, Blockfolio, Infstones, Cobo, Uniswap, Coinlist, Lorenzo, 30+ enduring category leaders.I've developed a unique approach to building enduring web3 companies, combining lessons learned in the front row seat of the evolutionary process of over 30 category leaders, and bring significant unfair advantage to my next portfolio company. I'm one of the earliest backer of PolyChain Capital(2016), Pantera Capital(2016), HackVC, Berkeley Fund(2017).

Kevin Ding's Current Company Details
Polychain Capital

Polychain Capital

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LP and early backer
California, United States
Website:
polychain.capital
Employees:
50
Kevin Ding Work Experience Details
  • Polychain Capital
    Lp And Early Backer
    Polychain Capital
    California, United States
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  • Anthropic
    Investor
    Anthropic 2023 - Present
    Claude 3.5
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  • Babylonchain Inc.
    Seed Investor
    Babylonchain Inc. 2021 - Present
    Palo Alto, California, Us
    Lead the first round. Founded by Stanford Prof. David Tse, Babylon aims to leverage bitcoin network security to enhance PoS chains. Babylon has created a staking and restaking primitive for Bitcoin. Bitcoin can now be staked trustlessly with self-custody to secure proof-of-stake ecosystems. This is the first safe and scalable yield opportunity for Bitcoin holders that does not involve bridging or third party custody or moving BTC off-chain. This also extends Bitcoin's superior security and decentralization properties to all of web3 and creates a $1T staking asset.
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  • Polychain Capital
    Seed Investor
    Polychain Capital 2016 - Present
    San Francisco, Us
    Polychain Capital is one of the world's largest and most impactful crypto fund with $10B AUM. I’m an early backer/investor of Polychain on the GP holding company entity side since when it was just founded in 2016 when they started out raising the 1st 4m vehicle. It's exhilarating to have the opportunity to invest and work with such a wonderful team of crypto native investors since their founding!Polychain portfolios include Eigenlayer, Polyhedra, Arbitrum, Uniswap, Cubist, Dydx, etc.
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  • Cosmos Network: Internet Of Blockchains
    Seed Investor
    Cosmos Network: Internet Of Blockchains May 2018 - Present
    Tallinn, Ee
    1st institutional round investor in Cosmos. Work with Cosmos core ecosystem to evolve the cosmos 2.0 roadmap.
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  • Rippling
    Seed Investor
    Rippling 2017 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Seed round investor before the company breakout. Leader in HR/IT software.We are in the bundling of SaaS movement, and Rippling is the new one stop shop for enterprises to manage everything. Rippling has more than 10 first party SaaS and integrated over 100 ecosystem SaaS.Rippling closed 250m series C at $6.5B valuation in 2021, closed Series D in 2022 at $11B valuation.
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  • Xai
    Investor
    Xai 2024 - Present
    Muskonomy
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  • Multion
    Investor
    Multion 2023 - Present
    Consumer agent vortex
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  • Cohesity
    Investor
    Cohesity Apr 2015 - Present
    San Jose, California, Us
    Reinvent the secondary storage industry through hyper convergence infrastructure and hybrid cloudUnicorn big data storage company. 2021 round put company valuation at 3.7B. IPO to watch. Pre revenue investor, from second round onwards doubling down to Series D
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  • Protocol Labs
    Angel Investor
    Protocol Labs 2014 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Developer of IPFS and FileCoin
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  • Vc
    General Partner
    Vc Jul 2013 - Present
    Built and raised one of the earliest institutional crypto VC funds since 2014, with several hundred millions usd raised. Invest across early to growth stage, both equity and crypto deals, with offices in Silicon valley and Beijing.Trained as a math Olympiad medalist, I believe in leveraging breakthrough technology to achieve “in math we trust”. AI in web2 and zero knowledge cryptography in web3 are the most beautiful constructs that reveal the law of nature. In first principles, I invest in mathematically inspired systems such as data center technologies and multichain computing paradigms to achieve the goal of performance and security, and to extend the digital computing horizon. Thrilled to have led, co-led, sourced and/or be closely involved with investments in Cohesity, Viz AI, Deliverr, Optimizely, Rippling, Compound Finance, Branch Metrics, HashGraph, Cosmos, Chia, BabylonChain, Polychain Capital, Starkware, Fantom, Tubi TV(acquired by Fox), Grubmarket etc. Working to find and partner with exceptional entrepreneurs to build category defining companiesMore than 40 portfolios have reached billion dollar valuation with more than 50 going public events(AI, crypto, bio-informatics).
  • Fantom Foundation
    Seed Investor
    Fantom Foundation Mar 2018 - Present
    George Town, Cayman Islands, Ky
    One of the first institutional investors in Fantom's seed round in 2018. It's great to see Andre Cronje defining the DeFi category as one of the most prolific founder in crypto.
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  • Hedera Hashgraph
    Seed Investor
    Hedera Hashgraph 2018 - Present
    Las Vegas, Nevada, Us
    First round investor
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  • Mercury
    Investor
    Mercury Aug 2017 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Banking for Startups
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  • Compound Labs
    Investor
    Compound Labs 2018 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    First round investor of Compound Finance, the leading DeFi money market protocolhttps://compound.finance/
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  • Deliverr Inc.
    Investor
    Deliverr Inc. 2017 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    1st investor in Deliverr Deliverr is the uber of Fulfillment, powering FBA-like experience for e-commerce playersDeliverr grew 8x in revenue run rate in 2020 COVID period, became market leader and raised Series D at 885M Val. Series E in 2021 value the company at 2B Val.*In 2022, Shopify acquired Deliverr is a deal valued at $2.1B, $1.7B in cash and $0.4B in stock.
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  • Tubi
    Early Stage Investor
    Tubi 2017 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    *Acquired by Fox Group for 500M in 2020. The world leader in AVOD(ad-supported video on demand) industry. Reached top 100 grossing app in over 30 countries. Co-lead the first round investment in Tubi in 2017 right after the company pivoted
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  • Grubmarket Inc.
    Investor
    Grubmarket Inc. May 2016 - Present
    San Francisco, Us
    Series A investor in 2016, double down in 2020.Leader in grocery ecommerce2022 round values the company at $3BGoldman Sachs best founder of the year
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  • Flexport
    Investor
    Flexport May 2015 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Series A investor. 2019 Softbank's 1B investment put valuation at 3B. 2021 A16Z led Series E round put the valuation at 9B usd.
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  • Viz.Ai
    Investor/Board Member
    Viz.Ai 2016 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Applied deep learning application in stroke Viz AI got the FDA approval in 2018 Feb, the first in AI-assisted stroke diagnosticsAngel round investor, and led the 5M USD pre-A round and served as board member 2017--2019
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  • Lime
    Early Stage Investor
    Lime 2017 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    DHVC invested in Lime Series A.
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  • Dfinity
    Seed Investor
    Dfinity Sep 2014 - Present
    Zurich, Ch
    DHVC is 1st round angel investor of String Labs in 2014, the parent company of the layer1 blockchain system Dfinity and its token ICP. ICP has a fully diluted market cap of over $10B and remarked as one of the leaders of the fourth generation of blockchain.
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  • Branch Metrics
    Investor
    Branch Metrics Apr 2015 - Present
    Palo Alto, California, Us
    No.1 mobile deep linking platform 2021 round values the company at $4B valuation led by NEA
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  • Optimizely
    Investor
    Optimizely 2015 - Present
    New York, New York, Us
    Leading A/B testing platform. Acquired in 2020 by Episerver in an undisclosed deal size worth multiple hundred millions.
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  • Brave Software
    Investor
    Brave Software 2016 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Seed round investor. Leading ad free browser with crypto incentives.
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  • Accel
    Venture Investor
    Accel 2012 - 2013
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    As one of the earliest American venture capital firms to enter the Chinese market, IDGVC Partners (Accel Partners) has established a leading role in the industry with an aggregate of US$4 billion asset under management and over 30 successful IPOs.
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  • Microsoft
    Mbs
    Microsoft 2011 - 2012
    Redmond, Washington, Us
    Early ai product and Microsoft research Asia
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  • Weibo Corporation
    Product Management
    Weibo Corporation 2010 - 2011
    Beijing, Beijing, Cn
    Weibo = Twitter of China
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Kevin Ding Education Details

  • Stanford University
    Stanford University
    Computer Science
  • Stanford University Graduate School Of Business
    Stanford University Graduate School Of Business
    Venture Capital And Entrepreneurship

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Kevin Ding works for Polychain Capital

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Kevin Ding's current role is LP and early backer.

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Kevin Ding attended Stanford University, Stanford University Graduate School Of Business.

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Kevin Ding's colleagues are Samuel Hanono, Michael Hodapp, Alex Sekulic, Sven Wellmann, Michael Waldmann, Taylor Sigrist, Molly Goldstein.

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