Dan Morehead #53
Founder and CEO of Pantera Capital
When you have a disruptive technology, they call it a category killer. Bitcoin's a serial killer. It's going to go through 40 or 50 different industries: well storage, cross border money movement, property titles, voting rights, identity. Those are all the biggest use cases on earth.”
Biography:
Before founding Pantera Capital in 2003, Dan Morehead operated in executive and managerial roles across a range of high finance companies. Currently, Pantera’s investments are solely in blockchain and cryptocurrency ventures.
Dan Morehead’s 2019:
In spring, it was reported that Pantera Capital had neared $175 million in its third round since investing in the blockchain space. The year also saw many investments in protocol and infrastructure projects, including Alchemy, an enterprise blockchain-as-a-service platform; Starkware, a privacy/scaling solution for blockchains; InstaDapp, a DeFi portal; and Bakkt, a institutional-grade custody solution for crypto assets. On the Unchained podcast with Laura Shin, Morehead predicted that the Bitcoin price would reach $356,000 by 2022.
What Cointelegraph expects for 2020:
As one of the most active and established funds in the industry, we expect Morehead and his team to maintain their current modus operandi of core infrastructure and protocol investment.