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Saurabh Sharma

Host & Organizer at The Compute Collective

Chicago, Illinois

Overview 

Saurabh Sharma is a General Partner at Jump Capital and Jump Crypto, with extensive experience in investment banking, private equity, and venture capital. He has made significant investments in companies like Symbl.ai and LinkSquares, showcasing his expertise in funding successful startups and guiding them to growth. Currently serving as the Head of Venture Investments at Jump Crypto, Saurabh has also held board positions at various innovative companies, such as Certora and 0x Labs. His track record of investing in successful ventures like Ironscales and Curv demonstrates his ability to identify and support promising startups in the Web3/Crypto and other tech sectors.

Work Experience 

  • Partner - Head of Investments

    2022 - Current

    Lead Crypto / Blockchain infrastructure investments and R&D initiatives for Jump Crypto Firm Investments include: Solana (Leading Layer 1 Infrastructure), Sui / Mysten Labs (Leading Layer 1 Infrastructure), Aptos (Leading Layer 1 Infrastructure), Sei Networks (DeFi Focused Layer 1 Infrastructure), Celestia (Data Availability Layer), Partior (Global clearing and settlement infrastructure on a unified ledger), Figure Markets (Leading Digital Asset Exchange), Cordial Systems (MPC based Security / Custody Infrastructure), Irreducible(Hardware Acceleration for ZK proofs), Hashflow (Cross Chain Swaps), Certora (Smart Contract Formal Verification), Asymmetric Research (Crypto Security Infrastructure), P2P (Staking & RPC Infrastructure), Neon Labs (EVM leveraging Solana execution layer), Metaplex (NFT Foundational Infrastructure), 0X (Universal API for building financial apps on crypto rails), CoinDCX (Leading Indian crypto exchange), Bitso (Leading LATAm Crypto Exchange), Curv (Crypto Security Infrastructure), BitGo (Leading Crypto Custodian), Phantom (Leading DeFi Wallet), Dialect (Web3 messaging), Paradigm (Crypto Derivatives Liquidity Aggregation), Zeta (DeFi Options), Stader Labs (Liquid Staking Infrastructure), Neon Labs (EVM on Solana), C3 (Cross Margining Layer), Aurory (Leading JPRG Gaming Studio), ZepetoX (leading Web3 Metaverse), Bitpanda (Leading European crypto brokerage), 3Commas (retail trading platform), AscendEX (crypto exchange), BitDAO (Bybit DAO), TRM (Leading Blockchain Intelligence Platform), CoinList (Leading digital asset origination platform), Spring Labs(decentralized credit intermediary)

Jump Crypto is building a cryptocurrency infrastructure to help the blockchain and all things Web3 grow.

  • General Partner

    2015

    Lead Investments in Tech Infrastructure, Intelligent Software, Decentralized Networks and Fintech Enterprise Infrastructure: LayerX Security (Enterprise Browser Security) Prompt Security (Gen AI Security) Siemplify (Security Orchestration and Automation)- exited to Google Cloud Conformity (Cloud Compliance and Security) - exited to Trend Micro Enso Security (Application Security Posture Management) - exited to Snyk Curv (MPC based Custody Infrastructure) - exited to PayPal Flashpoint Intel (Deep & Dark Web Threat Intel) - exited to Audax Shipa (Application discovery and operations for Kubernetes) - exited to Mirantis RiskSense (Predictive Vulnerability Management) - exited to Avanti Global Illumination (Consumer facing AI Infra) - exited to OpenAI Prophecy (Low-code data transformation) Certora (Smart Contract Security Platform) Rescale (High Performance Computing on Cloud) Ironscales (AI-powered email security) Foretellix (Verification Platform for Autonomous Vehicles) NowSecure (Mobile Application Security) Aperio (Data Quality Infrastructure for Industrial companies) Sight Machine (Industrial Big Data Infrastructure) Application Software: LogicGate (GRC Workflow Automation) LinkSquares (AI powered Contract Analytics) Indico (Intelligent Process Automation) Osano (Data Privacy Software) Cypago (Cloud GRC Automation) Benchprep (Learning Management System) Fintech: Bitgo (Regulated Custodian Infrastructure for Digital Assets) TRM (Cross chain analytics and CryptoCompliance) CoinDCX (Leading Indian Crypto Exchange) Bitpanda (Leading European Crypto Exchange) Paradigm (Institutional Liquidity Platform) 3Commas (Leading Retail trading & Automation platform) CoinList (Leading digital asset origination platform) Eventus (Trade Surveillance Platform) OnJuno (Digital Banking Platform)

Jump Capital is a thesis-led, sector-focused, and operating-centric venture capital firm specializing in Seed/Series A.

  • Member of Board of Directors

    2024

    Industry leading GenAI Security platform

  • Member of the Board (Observer)

    2025

  • Member of Board of Directors

    2022

    Certora is a leader in smart contract security

  • Member of the Board (Observer)

    2022

    Leading Staking and RPC Infrastructure Provider

  • Member of the Board (Observer)

    2025

    Cloud-native PaaS for Machine learning teams to build, deploy and ship ML/LLM Applications on their own cloud/on-prem Infra in a faster, scalable, cost efficient way.

  • Member of the Board (Observer)

    2022

    Open Protocol powering the decentralized exchange of assets

0x is an open protocol that enables peer-to-peer trading of assets.

Raised $108,999,960.00 from COIND, OpenSea, Jared Leto, Davoa Capital, Coinbase, Greylock, Sound Ventures, To Kenz Capital, Pantera Capital and GSR.

  • Member of the Board (Observer)

    2016

    Leading cloud platform for enterprise HPC (High Performance Computing) and simulation software.

Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations.

Raised $157,400,000.00 from Yield Capital, Richard Branson, DVC, NVIDIA, Initialized Capital, Jeff Bezos, Solasta Ventures, Nautilus Venture Partners, Prometheus Capital and Gopher Asset Management.

  • Member of the Board (Observer)

    2018

    Intelligent Verification Platform for safety of Autonomous Vehicles

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