Long substance, short status;
Long freedom, short coercion
Long freedom, short coercion
Primitive Ventures is a multi-strategy investment firm led by industry veteran Dovey Wan.
We believe that the cypherpunk spirit is the driving force behind both financial populism and technolibertarianism, with crypto representing the new socioeconomic primitives that will redefine individual sovereignty and macroeconomic paradigms. Over the past 10 years, our team has collectively incubated and invested in over 50 unicorn protocols and on-chain economies. The fund is fully owned by our team, with no outside capital. We are a group of engineers, builders, and dreamers looking forward to working with the next generation of founders and decentralized economy leaders.
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Team
Allen Day
Open Data Visionary, ML Aficionado and Tetris Master. PhD in Human Genetics from UCLA who spent past decade in establishing Google's Web3 initiative and pioneering in open crypto data infra. Envisions a future with printed organisms and awakened AIs centered around humanity.
Ada Hua
NFT OG player and Metaverse architect since 2019. Always degening into edgy on-chain trends with zero bias. Multidisciplinary explorer and meme collage artist. Alumnus of Cornell and future funk.
Claude Bronte
Opsec paranoid, Bitfinex hack survivor, rugs dissector. One of the first few IPs on OGame, enjoys the crypto dark forest more than D&D. Living with his 2 poodles: Naka & Moto. Hardcore RTS and Permadeath player since the 90s.
Dovey Wan
A cheap dopamine minimalist and a proof of meaningful work maximalist. Enjoys authentic conversations driven by genuine interests, loves working with founders who have a legitimate obsession in solving hard problems. Carnegie Mellon University & Bio hacking alumnus.
Marco Manoppo
An operations research expert that left H-1B farming for crypto. Formerly on the buy side and the indexing space. Can speak crypto to both boomers tradfi and degens shadowy supercoder. Third culture kid. Protocol mechanism design and coffee addict. Purdue engineering alumnus.
Sean Tan
A seasoned hawker research expert who has traded multi assets classes across cycles. A pragmatic allocator who seeks meaningful impact on the charts. semi-retired on-chain but hyperactive off-chain. Alumnus of SMU and Tower Research, a common man at CommonMan Roaster.
Tony Lau
An aspiring philosopher of science turned crypto degen since college. Fluent in MEV language and dreaming of putting the global financial system on-chain. Hamilton College and Vipassana Alumnus. Terminally on-chain in pursuit of alignment.
Yetta Sing
PhD in boomer economics and self-taught tokenomics; Hopping between Moffitt Library and University Avenue. Former Web2 CVC turned crypto degen. Venturing down the rabbit holes from human behavioral biases to governance attack vectors.
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