SORA VENTURES

Capital|Community Development|Advisory

Jason leads the venture investments and strategies at Sora Ventures. Prior to Sora, Jason was the Head of Global Business Development at Juzix (now PlatON), a leading blockchain company led by Wanxiang Holdings that focused on distributed ledger technology and multi-party computation. Jason joined the blockchain industry in early 2016 as an Investment Associate at Fenbushi Capital, Asia’s first blockchain venture capital firm where he managed dealflows and post management of companies in North America. He also founded Sora Foundation, an initiative that consists of blockchain development, community development, and Sora Summit. Jason is also an active mentor at Alchemist Accelerator in Silicon Valley and Startupbootcamp in China.

Siy leads the secondary investments and strategies at Sora Ventures. Prior to Sora, Siy co-founded Trade Terminal, a leading cryptocurrency hedge fund that focused on cryptocurrency trading and research in North America in late 2016. Trade Terminal managed more than 10,000 bitcoins and at peak worth 300 million USD. Siy graduated with a Ph.D. from Columbia University Data Science Institute, with a focus on modeling time series data and explored their causality relationship. Siy is also an AI consultant for an asset management firm whose AUM is around 200 billion USD.

Sandy is in the secondary market team at Sora Ventures responsible for developing quantitative trading systems. Prior to Sora, he ran his own cryptocurrency mining studio since 2017 and worked as a quantitative software engineer at Eastmoney, the largest financial data company on China GEM, and Hongzhe Fund, a Shanghai-based private equity fund. Sandy graduated from the Shanghai Lixin University where he majored in financial management.

Dong-il is a Quantitative Researcher at Sora Ventures. Before Sora, he worked in Ruida Futures, which is one of the leading futures companies in China with AUM of several billions (RMB). He researched on Chinese futures market using cutting edge quantitative methods and developed profitable trading strategies. At the same time, he developed by himself all the infrastructures for quantitative data analysis and trading. He also worked as risk quant at FIST Global in Seoul, Korea. He graduated Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea and got Ph.D degree in physics at University of Texas at Austin, United States.

Calvin is an Analyst at Sora Ventures. His blockchain career began at OKEx in 2018, one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world. He then worked at Shanghai’s Guotai Junan Securities as an emerging tech research intern, specializing in blockchain application and scalability research. Calvin later joined Coinsuper, a Hong Kong leading crypto exchange, as an ICO analyst, where he scouted and analyzed ICO projects and assisted in business development. Calvin obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston University.