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Brett Shear

Managing Partner at Palm Tree Crew Investments

Miami Beach, Florida

Overview 

Brett Shear is a Partner at PTC Crypto in Miami Beach, Florida, with expertise in blockchain, smart contracts, and financial accounting. He has a Master of Taxation from Fordham Gabelli School of Business and has co-founded successful ventures like Fleek and Fordham FinTech Network. Shear's career highlights include serving as Managing Partner at Palm Tree Crew Investments and being part of the founding team at ConsenSys' Balanc3 project.

Work Experience 

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1confirmation

  • General Partner

    2025 - Current

Supporting teams fueling the decentralization of the web and society

1confirmation.com
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Palm Tree Crew Investments

  • Managing Partner, PTC Crypto

    2021

Consumer, Consumer-Tech

ptc-holdings.com
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Fleek

  • Co-Founder, COO

    2018 - 2020

    Modern web development platform for building sites and apps on IPFS.

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ConsenSys

  • Founding Team, Balanc3

    2017 - 2018

    ConsenSys is the worlds largest a blockchain venture production studio. Balanc3, a ConsenSys spoke, is an accounting and financial management platform for cryptocurrencies.

ConsenSys builds Ethereum blockchain infrastructure and applications ranging from developer tools to enterprise solutions.

Raised $725,000,000.00 from Raison Wealth and Axevil Capital.

consensys.io
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Fordham FinTech Network

  • Co-Founder, President

    2016 - 2017

    Student-led FinTech initiative at Fordham University, including Fordham Undergraduate students, Graduate students, and real-world FinTech professionals. The Network cultivates a FinTech environment including educational programs, internal entrepreneurial projects, and regularly held events each semester such as VC and Blockchain speaker series at Fordham University.

Education 

Investments 

Afterparty

Seed

Total funding: $12M

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