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Digital Currency Group Inc. Digital Currency Group ( DCG) is a venture capital company focusing on the digital currency market. It is located in Stamford, Connecticut. [2] The company has the subsidiaries Foundry, Genesis, Grayscale Investments, and Luno. It also formerly owned CoinDesk .
Scientific career. Fields. Digital contracts, digital currencies. Website. iohk.io. Charles Hoskinson (born 1987 or 1988) is an American entrepreneur who is a co-founder of the blockchain engineering company Input Output Global, Inc. (formerly IOHK), and the Cardano blockchain platform, [2] and was a co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain ...
Samuel Benjamin Bankman-Fried [2] (born March 5, 1992), commonly known as SBF, [3] is an American entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud and related crimes in November 2023. Bankman-Fried founded the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and was celebrated as a "poster boy" for crypto. [4] At the peak of his net worth, he was ranked the 41st-richest ...
CoinDesk was founded by entrepreneur Shakil Khan and began publishing in May 2013. Khan is also an investor in BitPay, a bitcoin payment processor.. At the start of 2016, CoinDesk was acquired by Digital Currency Group for an estimated US$500,000–600,000.
FTX Trading Ltd., commonly known as FTX (short for "Futures Exchange"), is a bankrupt company that formerly operated a cryptocurrency exchange and crypto hedge fund. The exchange was founded in 2019 by Sam Bankman-Fried and Gary Wang and collapsed in 2022 after massive fraud perpetrated by Bankman-Fried and his partner Caroline Ellison forced the company to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Polychain Capital was founded in 2016 by Olaf Carlson-Wee. Prior to founding Polychain, Carlson-Wee was an employee of Coinbase where he was Head of Risk.. Investors of Polychain include Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Union Square Ventures and Founders Fund.
Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. is a private equity firm founded in 2006 that focuses on the technology, industrial and consumer sectors. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica with affiliates in Dallas, London and Dublin. In 2022, the firm was a part of an investor consortium named BlueCo that purchased Chelsea.
Bond giant BlackRock tops the list at 6.7% ownership, followed by Pine River Capital Management at 2.5%, Bank of New York Mellon's asset management arm at 2.3%, The Vanguard Group at 2.2%, and ...