VC Spotlight: Hivemind Capital Partners
Web3 doesn’t need another hype machine. It needs a clean engine room. That’s what Hivemind Capital Partners built, a firm that institutionalized digital-asset investing without watering it down. No slogans. No theater. Just precision capital, thesis-first. And it starts with Matt Zhang. Fifteen years steering structured products at Citi. Built their Impact Fund. Racked credentials from Cambridge, LSE, CFA, CAIA. Then left the mothership in November 2021 to launch Hivemind, staking his name on a multi-strategy platform designed to bridge protocol-native innovation with institutional-grade rigor.
Hivemind doesn’t spray capital across trends. It engineers conviction. Four interlocking plays: early-stage venture equity, protocol token allocations, quant trading strategies, and secondary liquidity support. From seed to Series B, from Layer 2 infrastructure to tokenized art markets, Hivemind builds exposure without overexposure. It’s chess in a casino, played with house rules, quantitative signals meet cultural read-throughs, with compliance infrastructure that rivals legacy finance.
It’s not a solo act. Richard Skeet reverse-engineers frontier trends through on-chain data and economic models. Jake Greenstein built Hivemind’s trading and custody rails from scratch. Stanley Huo fuels APAC dealflow across Greater China and Southeast Asia. Emmanuel Vallod leads token presales and equity plays with the edge of a European crypto native. And with Kayla Phillips, Steve Goulden, and Gigi Cho dialing in execution, Hivemind doesn’t chase noise, it tunes in early.
Their portfolio doesn’t blend in. Helium powers global IoT networks. Edgen crunches AI for real-time trading signals. Trust Machines is scaling the Bitcoin app layer. TRLab bridges fine art and NFT provenance. Moonveil brings gameplay on-chain. RD Technologies is stitching TradFi to DeFi. This isn’t spray-and-pray. It’s signal-to-impact.
Hivemind is betting where markets are going, not where they’ve been. They’re hiring engineers, traders, PMs, and growth leads across their portfolio. Want in on the protocol-powered economy? The contact form’s live.
Helium - https://www.heliumm.com/careers/
Trust Machines - https://trustmachines.co/careers/
Hivemind Portfolio Job Board - https://jobs.hivemind.capital/companies
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