Bart Stephens

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P. Bart (Bart)

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Bart Stephens is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blockchain Capital, the first venture capital fund to invest exclusively in the blockchain technology sector and the first to raise a venture fund through an ICO. Bart is one of the most established and active venture capital investors in the blockchain technology industry. He is a three-time founder whose career has focused on emerging technologies—an internet company, a hedge fund, and a venture capital firm. Prior to this, he led his own family hedge fund, Stephens Investment Management, a venture firm that deals with diversified investment strategies that go beyond the crypto realm. Together with his brother Brad Stephens, Bart invented and pioneered "nanocap" investing, a venture capital style in the public markets focused on sub micro-cap equities.

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	Financial Services
	Hedge Fund

Industries

	Financial Technology
	Technology

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	Blockchain
	Entrepreneurship

Blockchain Capital is the first dedicated venture capital firm to invest exclusively in the blockchain technology sector.
Under his leadership, Blockchain Capital has invested in 100+ companies and crypto-assets.
Blockchain Capital also pioneered the world's first ever tokenized investment fund and the blockchain industry's first security token, the BCAP.
Today, the company is one of the foremost and most active venture investors in the blockchain industry.

EXPERTISE & EARLY CAREER

Bart is a hedge fund manager, tech operating executive and startup mentor.
He started his career at fintech pioneer E*TRADE, where he worked in corporate development and in the advanced products group.
He was a founding investor of Oncology.com, which grew to become the internet’s largest cancer-related website.
He served as Executive Vice President of Venture Capital for Ivanhoe Capital, an international investment firm.

MEDIA

Bart has been profiled or quoted in Forbes, The Block, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, Blockworks, and Real Vision, among others.

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