Daniel Sangyoon Kim
Advisor at Nest Wallet
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & Software Engineer
2021 - 2024
Co-founded a crypto wallet that attracted a $3.7m seed round valued at $30 million. Processing $60 million / year in trading volume. Built and tested three different software products, and led fundraising. Advisor from 2023 - 2024.
Nest Wallet is a wallet specifically designed for traders.
Raised $3,600,000.00 from Steve Zhao, INCE Capital, gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC), Orange DAO, Kevin Lin, Jamie Lin, Nani XBT, Inception Capital, Ascensive Assets and Sebastien Borget.
Associate, Head of Blockchain
2019 - 2021
Reported to Tim Draper. Sourced early investments in Arkham, Polymarket, and Stacks with a 14x aggregate return. Other crypto: Ledger, Etherscan, Maker DAO, Polygon, Unstoppable Domains, etc. Draper is a seed investor in companies like Baidu, Bitcoin, Coinbase, Carta, Robinhood, Hotmail, SpaceX, Tesla and more.
Draper Associates is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming companies.
Investment Banking Analyst
2017 - 2018
Ran a 7-figure crypto arbitrage operation on the side. Moved to California and wrote a book explaining crypto and the blockchain.
Greenhill & Co is an investment bank providing financial advices.
Raised $20,000,000.00.
Summer Analyst
2016 - 2016
Long short equity hedge fund managing $30B; internship in consumer team. Previous: Activism at Clinton Group (2015) Long short equity at Mercer Partners (2015)
Point72 invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide.
Raised $45,171,689.00.