Miko Matsumura, General Partner with Gumi Ventures | How De-Fi is Changing the World
Miko Matsumura, General Partner with Gumi Ventures | How De-Fi is Changing the World
References & Resources
Key Topics
Companies & Organizations
A US $30M investment fund focused on early-stage blockchain startups, where Miko is a General Partner.
A crypto exchange co-founded by Miko Matsumura.
Sun Microsystems
Where Miko served as Chief Evangelist for the Java Language and Platform.
A developer platform company for which Miko helped raise venture capital.
A financial infrastructure company for which Miko helped raise venture capital.
INFRAVIO
A company Miko participated in its exit.
A company Miko participated in its exit.
Db4O
A company Miko participated in its exit.
A CeFi Lending platform where Miko is an advisor.
A DeFi Yield Aggregator where Miko is an advisor.
A Payments company where Miko is an advisor.
An ID infrastructure company where Miko is an advisor.
An investment firm with over $800M under management, where Miko was an investor.
A blockchain firm where Miko was an investor.
Show Notes
Miko is a General Partner with Gumi Ventures, a US $30M investment fund focused early stage blockchain startups and a cofounder of crypto exchange Evercoin, Miko fell in love with open source software 25 years ago as chief Evangelist for the Java Language and Platform at Sun Microsystems. Since then he has been building open source software startups in Silicon Valley including raising over $50 million in venture capital for developer platform companies such as Gradle and financial infrastructure companies like Hazelcast and has participated in multiple exits including INFRAVIO, webMethods, and Db4O. He is an advisor in successful startups like Celsius (CeFi Lending), Idle Finance (DeFi Yield Aggregator), Pundi X (Payments), and KEYLESS (ID infrastructure). He has been an investor with Focus Ventures, a firm with over $800M under management, 9 IPOs and 44 exits and blockchain firm Pantera Capital. He holds a Master’s degree in Neuroscience from Yale University where he worked on abstract computational neural networks.
➡️ Talking Points
00:00 — Intro.
08:02 — Blockchain.. breaking away from institutional systems.
15:42 — Crypto hacking.
20:21 — Questioning people’s motives.
26:09 — What is De-Fi?
32:10 — Blockchain & Crypto adoption.
46:11 — How De-Fi is changing lives.