YAP Capital | Empowering The Decentralized Web

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/Empowering The Decentralized Web

YAP CAPITAL BACKS

OF THE WEB3 ECONOMY

/Why YAP

We believe entrepreneurs, especially in the web3 sector, are the ultimate agents of positive, transformational change across our society and economy. With YAP Capital, we want to spur this progress forward_

“Far out in the Pacific Ocean is the tiny island Yap, known for its unique ancient economy using Fei Stones as currency. Due to their size, many stones remain unmoved, with ownership determined by community consensus. This system represented one of the first distributed ledgers based on oral agreements. Recently, parallels have been drawn between the Yapese stone money and Bitcoin due to their reliance on consensus and inherent limitations.”

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/Our approach

THE YAP CAPITAL ECOSYSTEM
The Ideal Ecosystem To Build a crypto Venture_

We empower founding teams to build impactful and scalable blockchain-based companies by helping them to sharpen and develop their project fundamentals:

Business & product development

We have decades of experience in company building as well as from top-tier financial and strategy institutions to support visionary founders on all relevant business topics (e.g., Review and feedback on your business model, Go-to-market strategy, etc)

Tokenomics design

Our members bring a unique blend of deep, native understanding of the asset class – published several articles within the blockchain space (e.g., Decentralized Finance Report, May 2021) and can support solving or sharpening very crypto- specific challenges like Tokenomics

Marketing & community building

As former e-commerce company builders, we can help to bridge the gap between web2 and web3 when it comes to community building and acquiring customers

Fundraising

YAP Capital’s members include highly successful and experienced web2 investors with an outstanding track record (i.e., currently 6 unicorn investments) who can further help to raise larger rounds from different VCs

Network

YAP Capital and its members have close relationships with multiple key investors and builders in the global crypto landscape across our fund and advisory businesses, which enables knowledge sharing and co-operations

Talent

We have deep connections to the top talent pools of the world, which lets our founders acquire outstanding talents for their journey

“YAP CAPITAL IS BUILT BY FOUNDERS FOR FOUNDERS AND OUR MAIN GOAL IS TO HELP FOUNDERS SUCCEED”

DR. ALEXANDER JAIS

Founder & Managing Partner

Alexander is the managing partner of YAP Capital. Before becoming an investor, Alexander founded two e-commerce companies and strategically advised family offices and private equity investors on transactions and growth initiatives over the last 15 years.
He was a member of Bain & Company's Private Equity Group and holds a bachelor’s in business administration from the University of St. Gallen and a Ph.D. from the RWTH Aachen.

Alexander is the managing partner of YAP Capital. Before becoming an investor, Alexander founded two
e-commerce companies and strategically advised family offices and private equity investors on transactions and growth initiatives over the last 15 years. He was a member of Bain & Company's Private Equity Group and holds a bachelor’s in business administration from the University of St. Gallen and a Ph.D. from the RWTH Aachen.

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/Our portfolio

Behind every brilliant idea and ground-breaking project are people. Mission-driven risk-takers who understand that the best way to change the game, is to create a new game.

You can meet those we’ve backed here - selection_

Smart Contracts

Across Protocol

Interoperability

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The logo “y” embodies not only the yapese stones but also symbolizes the full nodes, which constitute the foundation of blockchain networks_

Its interconnectivity shows also the historical concept of the yapese stones and the modern interpretation of the financial consensus mechanism.