Illumina Capital is a stage agnostic venture capital firm located in New York that invests in seed to late-stage companies with specific focus on the emerging and rapidly evolving blockchain ecosystem. Our philosophy when engaging with portfolio companies, is a “partnership first” - to advise, collaborate on the design, and execute on the vision until the go to market - and an allocator and investor second. We are especially looking to partner with teams who are building in the games, music, fashion, sport, film, and of course financial space. Our team members hail from some of the top global companies in these verticals. To enable our “Partners First” philosophy, Illumina Labs, our sister company, engages to provide advisory, design, and execution services across all phases leading to the launch of the product or company and its economy. Illumina Labs also acts as an integrator for our portfolio companies, bringing in the best-of-breed third party solution providers, accelerating and enabling teams to deliver and launch in an efficient, structured, and compliant manner. Our aim is to nurture founder teams and innovators on their journey while growing a network of engineers, academics, scientists, developers, builders, creators, executives, investors, and others in the blockchain and technology global ecosystem. For Investors, we make investing in a complex evolving ecosystem risk-managed, diverse, and accessible. Our processes ensure a thorough due diligence mechanism through our accelerator apparatus that is unique and unprecedented in the venture space. Our portfolio construction and intake process reflects a thoughtful, robust, and diversified approach which borrows heavily from our roots in quantitative investment, algorithmic trading, and market making in traditional and crypto markets.