7BC Venture Capital | Icebreaker

7BC Venture Capital | Icebreaker

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Experienced Co-Founder with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. Skilled in Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), Entrepreneurship, Management, Investments, and Blockchain. Strong business development professional that attended Santa Fe University of Art and Design (formerly known as the College of Santa Fe).

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Managing Director, Duke Capital Partners & Duke Innovation Fund

Daniel Pinargote Escudero

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GENERA is our manifesto — our way of contributing through what we believe in: commitment to purposeful work, impactful progress, and energy as a force for change. We’re building an ecosystem to power Latin America with solar energy, especially where access is still a privilege — through EPC, PPA structuring, and O&M management Co-Founder at Elevate, backing early-stage founders reshaping spanish speaking LatAm.

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As a disabled founder, media executive and compassionate capitalist, Celona has always had a love for the point where people and technology meet. From building one of the first car part review websites in the 90s, establishing UGC with Vimeo, to rich media, and helping found the influencer space, he has amassed 24 years of business development experience. This centers around managing and building solution-oriented companies across e-commerce, digital media, DE&I, influencer, social, mobile and now social impact. Married to his soulmate, girl dad for life... - Qui Transtulit Sustinet - Winner Pepsi Fast Pitch - 2016 Top 100 fastest growing companies in the U.S. - Deloitte 2016 # 79 Speakr Silicon Beach Startup Of The Year - 2021 Finalist Cluster 2025 Mentor SXSW

Lexington T. Blood

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The most valuable currency in my life is time…obsessed with building things that matter.

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A strategic and operating executive with a proven track record of guiding organizations to success. Counselor to Fortune 500 companies, technology start-ups, and both medium-size and large-size organizations. Human resources and talent acquisition focused, identifying growth opportunities, developing strategies for capturing those opportunities, and executing them. Expertise includes executive level recruitment in high technology, having successfully completed countless searches for venture-capitalized, pre-IPO start-ups to world-leading Fortune 500 companies. Strengths include relationship building, investment banking style research, targeting, and approach to board members and CEOs. Able to work both independently and collaboratively in the on-going management of projects. Founding mentor of the Founder Institute's LA Chapter, UpStart.LA, and Founders Space. President of LA CEOs, an education and support group for CEOs and Founding Executives. Board Chairman of SoCal Tech Group, member of Media Entertainment Technology Alpha Leaders (METal), Host of the Venture Capital Alliance, and Chair Emeritus of the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels. I am a retained recruiter of CEO's and VP's for venture capital-backed start ups and growth companies. Specialties: My expertise includes executive level talent acquisition. I have completed countless searches for venture-capitalized, pre-IPO start-ups to world-leading Fortune 50 companies. Approximately 33% of the companies I have consulted to have gone IPO or been acquired by public companies creating a liquidity opportunity for investors. I am considered a top headhunter in America.

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2018 - : CEO of DigiShares - a white label platform for security token offerings 2017 - 2020: senior business developer, SEA, AAU Innovation 2017 - 2019: COO of VentureFusion - a crypto-security ecosystem for startup creation and growth 2016 - 2018: COO of Aglance Solutions / Navigate Pain 2014 - 2020: Founder of Sales on Tap and CS Consult. Mentor and advisor for new IT and research-based companies. 2001- 2014 : CEO of Dezide, provider of software for diagnostics and troubleshooting, based on artificial intelligence 1997-2001: Technical project manager at Hewlett-Packard. 1997: Ph.D. in Bayesian networks.