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Francis Berwa

Head of Investments at zkPass

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Francis Berwa is currently the Head of Investments at zkPass, driving the growth of new markets and technologies. With a background as Co-Founder and Partner at Aves Lair and experience as a Partner at Lair East, Berwa has invested in companies like Orb Labs at the seed stage, focusing on sectors such as Entertainment & Sports, Social Commerce, and DeepTech.

Work Experience 

  • Head of Investments

    2023 - Current

    zkPass is a private data oracle using zero-knowledge and multi-party computation to enables users to selectively and privately validate their data.

A zkTLS oracle protocol that enables private web data to be verifiable.

Raised $15,000,000.00 from Bing Ventures, IOBC Capital, GCR, dao5, Animoca Brands, L2 Iterative Venture, Taisu Ventures, Legends Group, WAGMi Ventures and Amber Group.

  • Co-Founder & Partner

    2020

    Syntax Capital blends decades of institutional finance experience with crypto-native expertise to provide tailored digital asset investment products for Family Offices and High-Net-Worth Individuals

  • Partner

    2019 - 2022

    Lair East was a coworking space in New York City that offers workspace, connection to top investors & global entrepreneurial network.

Lair East is a New York-based team dedicated to bringing top entrepreneurs and corporate teams together to create innovative outcomes.

  • Co-Founder / COO

    2017 - 2021

    A Global Real Estate Solution to Capital Market 3.0

  • Chief Operating Officer

    2017 - 2018

    Chainhaus is an education, advisory and software development firm based in New York City focused on blockchain and data science.

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