Chris Hunter is Co-Founder of Galoy and Bitcoin Beach Wallet, and co-organizer of the Adopting Bitcoin Lightning Summit. Galoy builds open source Bitcoin banking infrastructure and developed the Bitcoin Beach Wallet, the world’s largest community-owned Bitcoin bank. Hunter is an active investor (Angel, Seed and Series A rounds) in the Bitcoin, fintech, psychedelic and renewable energy sectors. Prior to founding Galoy, he served as a Global executive who founded, led and successfully exited venture-backed companies in New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver and Vancouver.

Max is the founder at Hivemind Ventures, investing in seed stage startups building the future of decentralized finance, communications, and energy on Bitcoin/Lightning. Previously, he was focused on increasing access to Bitcoin in Latin America via Entiende Bitcoin, a consultancy that helps leading Bitcoin companies develop and distribute products in the region. He also helped found Bright, the leading residential solar company in Mexico backed by investors like Y Combinator and First Round Capital.

Mike Jarmuz… or Muzz as his friends say…  is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Lightning Ventures, whose focus is exclusively investing in Bitcoin companies. His goal is to evangelize and help demystify early-stage investing to plebs and whales alike. Mike is also passionate about educating founders and operators on strategies to fund their projects. Muzz believes everyone should invest in technology companies (not just the suits) and that investing in Bitcoin companies is the best thing you can do to complement a HODL position. What else? He also Co-Organizes the Unconfiscatable Conference and is an advisor to Azteco. Muzz has a serious angel investing addiction and has personally invested in over 1,500 companies. A longtime music business veteran, he’s done a lot of stuff.  If you want to learn more about funding your rad Bitcoin company or get started investing in awesome companies, chat him up.