Our Team
Nabeel ranked in the top 1% during his studies at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, where he completed a B.B.A in Finance and Accounting. He begun his career in Investment Banking, doing M&A at Evercore Partners on Wall Street. As the Managing Partner of both Protocol Ventures I, the first crypto fund of funds in Silicon Valley, and Protocol Ventures II, Nabeel has had unparalleled Seed/ICO exposure to blue chip coins such as Solana, The Graph, Coinbase, Polka Dot, Algrorand, NEAR, DFinity and many others. Nabeel has been an active investor in cryptocurrencies since 2014.
Kunal graduated from the LSE, with an LLB (Law). After being called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn London, Kunal begun a varied and illustrious career in business. Having started as an Equity Derivatives and Options Broker at Tullet Prebon and then BGC, before becoming a founding partner of Lombard Forte Securities. After their acquisition, he became a Managing Director at OJ Brien MENA Capital Ltd as well as Global head of equities, credit and structured finance.
Having been an active and proficient angel investor for many years Kunal institutionalised this process and is currently a partner at Shorooq Partners, MENA’s leading early-stage VC that has the backing of seven sovereign wealth funds. He combines his passion for early stage venture and crypto through his role as Managing Partner at Three Point Capital Limited a leading Web 3.0 venture fund of funds as well as being Managing Partner at Matador Digital Assets Fund, a market neutral crypto arbitrage fund.
Kunal has a number of other business interests including Insurance, F&B and healthcare. He is also actively involved in charitable and philanthropic endeavours and an active member of the Young President’s Organisation.
Gideon is an award-winning University of Cambridge BA graduate, with an MSc in Policy from Oxford University.
Gideon leads Investments at Three Point Capital, leading origination, analysis and underwriting into both funds and companies.
He was is a pioneer in Bitcoin Ordinals, co-founding Ordswap, the first marketplace, in Feb 2023. A first day adopter of BRC20, Jack played an influential role in the adoption of BRC20s, Bitmap, Doginals, and the CAT20 protocol. He previously served as Chief Strategy Officer during the early years of OKCoin & launch of OKEX. As Managing Director at Circle, Jack played a key role in launching USDC and establishing the Circle OTC desk in Asia. He has invested in the seed round of numerous startups including Chainalysis, Blockfolio, Metaplanet, Messari, and Fractal
He has been a miner, investor, advisor, and founder in the cryptographic digital assets space since 2012. Prior to joining the firm, Ivan co-founded SolidX Partners in 2014, which offered synthetic institutional access to bitcoin through a total return swap and pursued an SEC-registered physically backed bitcoin ETF. Prior to SolidX, he was at the foreign currency trading firm FXCM, where he served as Chief Information Officer. As CIO for FXCM, he was responsible for the global technology needs of the firm. He also is a Certified Bitcoin Professional as deemed by C4 and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Kunal graduated from the LSE, with an LLB (Law). After being called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn London, Kunal begun a varied and illustrious career in business. Having started as an Equity Derivatives and Options Broker at Tullet Prebon and then BGC, before becoming a founding partner of Lombard Forte Securities. After their acquisition, he became a Managing Director at OJ Brien MENA Capital Ltd as well as Global head of equities, credit and structured finance.
Having been an active and proficient angel investor for many years Kunal institutionalised this process and is currently a partner at Shorooq Partners, MENA’s leading early-stage VC that has the backing of seven sovereign wealth funds. He combines his passion for early stage venture and crypto through his role as Managing Partner at Three Point Capital Limited a leading Web 3.0 venture fund of funds as well as being Managing Partner at Matador Digital Assets Fund, a market neutral crypto arbitrage fund.
Kunal has a number of other business interests including Insurance, F&B and healthcare. He is also actively involved in charitable and philanthropic endeavours and an active member of the Young President’s Organisation.
Nabeel ranked in the top 1% during his studies at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, where he completed a B.B.A in Finance and Accounting. He begun his career in Investment Banking, doing M&A at Evercore Partners on Wall Street. As the Managing Partner of both Protocol Ventures I, the first crypto fund of funds in Silicon Valley, and Protocol Ventures II, Nabeel has had unparalleled Seed/ICO exposure to blue chip coins such as Solana, The Graph, Coinbase, Polka Dot, Algrorand, NEAR, DFinity and many others. Nabeel has been an active investor in cryptocurrencies since 2014.
He was is a pioneer in Bitcoin Ordinals, co-founding Ordswap, the first marketplace, in Feb 2023. A first day adopter of BRC20, Jack played an influential role in the adoption of BRC20s, Bitmap, Doginals, and the CAT20 protocol. He previously served as Chief Strategy Officer during the early years of OKCoin & launch of OKEX. As Managing Director at Circle, Jack played a key role in launching USDC and establishing the Circle OTC desk in Asia. He has invested in the seed round of numerous startups including Chainalysis, Blockfolio, Metaplanet, Messari, and Fractal
Gideon is an award-winning University of Cambridge BA graduate, with an MSc in Policy from Oxford University.
Gideon leads Investments at Three Point Capital, leading origination, analysis and underwriting into both funds and companies.
He has been a miner, investor, advisor, and founder in the cryptographic digital assets space since 2012. Prior to joining the firm, Ivan co-founded SolidX Partners in 2014, which offered synthetic institutional access to bitcoin through a total return swap and pursued an SEC-registered physically backed bitcoin ETF. Prior to SolidX, he was at the foreign currency trading firm FXCM, where he served as Chief Information Officer. As CIO for FXCM, he was responsible for the global technology needs of the firm. He also is a Certified Bitcoin Professional as deemed by C4 and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.