Welcome back to season two of the Preferred Return podcast, focused on the transformative power of data and technology within private equity and venture capital firms.
In this episode, our host Jeff Williams, Chief Strategy Officer at Altvia, sits down with Matthew Le Merle, Managing Director at Blockchain Coinvestors. Founded in 2014, Blockchain Coinvestors investment thesis is that digital monies, commodities, and assets are inevitable, and all of the world's financial infrastructure must be upgraded. As the leading blockchain venture fund of funds, they are invested in more than 400 blockchain companies and projects including over 60% of blockchain enterprise unicorns.
This vision is not dependent upon crypto and Bitcoin; instead, it has everything to do with how blockchain technology will enable eight billion people to digitally transact - much like how we currently communicate and share content in natively digital ways.
Matthew is no stranger to this world of digitalization having over thirty years of experience working and investing in the financial and technology industries, including having worked on the Big Bang at the London Stock Exchange and the creation of the iShares exchange-traded funds (ETFs) family at BlackRock as well as assisting in rolling out the Internet at Cisco, eBay, Google, Microsoft, PayPal and others too.