FoundING PARTNER:  Pete Townsend

Pete Townsend is an early-stage startup investor, advisor, non-executive director, podcaster and leads the Techstars Web3 accelerator.  He has 28 years’ global experience at the startup and enterprise level with companies such as BNP Paribas, Fidelity Investments, Coinbase, and has invested in 25+ web3 and fintech ventures around the world.  He is based in Dublin, Ireland and helps early-stage ventures get their products to market, get traction with customers and raise funding.

Pete is also the host of MoneyNeverSleeps, an Ireland top 20 weekly podcast that looks inside the minds of entrepreneurs and at the crossover of startups, enterprise, finance technology and life as we know it.

Originally from Massachusetts, Pete graduated cum laude from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a BSc in Finance & Operations Management and earned an MBA from Boston University.