Hemant Taneja: Quality Entrepreneurs are Driving Bitcoin Investment
A partner at the $3bn venture capital fund General Catalyst Partners, Hemant Taneja focuses on investing in early-stage technology companies. He is a board member of Stripe and ZenPayroll, among other companies. Last week, GC joined with Breyer Capital and Accel Partners to lead a $17m Series B investment in Circle Internet Financial, a digital currency company with services for both consumers and businesses. General Catalyst had already led a $9m Series A investment in Circle with Accel last fall. CoinDesk caught up with Taneja at CoinSummit in San Francisco to find out more about his....
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Some of Silicon Valley's most innovative investors gathered at CoinSummit San Francisco to discuss where the smart money will go next in the digital currency space, including Meyer "Micky" Malka, founder of Ribbit Capital. Jeremy Liew, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Hemant Taneja, a partner at General Catalyst Partners; and Jean-Francois "Jeff" Clavier, founder and managing partner of SoftTech VC. Hemant Taneja, Jeremy Liew, Meyer "Micky" Malka and Jean-Francois "Jeff" Clavier, The venture capitalists assembled for CoinSummit's Tuesday, 25th March, panel on investment....
The CoinDesk team will be covering the sold-out CoinSummit event in full, so keep an eye on the home page for the latest news and updates. If you've not made it to San Francisco for the conference, you can still follow the action on CoinDesk's Twitter feed (@CoinDesk), as well as watching the CoinSummit Live Stream (below). CoinSummit Live Stream. CoinSummit Tweets. Tweets about "#coinsummit. Agenda. Day 1 - Tuesday, March 25th, 2014. 08:30 - 9:15. Registration and coffee. 9:30 - 9:45. Opening remarks and greetings, Pamir Gelenbe, CoinSummit. 09:45 - 10:30. Fireside chat with Marc....
Leading global credit card processing firm Visa will soon begin researching bitcoin and blockchain technology, according to a new report. Speaking to LiveMint, the online division of India's second-largest newspaper, Visa executive vice president of technology Rajat Taneja indicated that the research will take place in the company's innovation labs, which are focused on improving its Visa Checkout and mVisa products. The announcement follows a period of indifference from the credit card giant, which has formerly stated it does not see the technology as a business threat, while....
This summer, the UK will play host to a two-day conference aiming to connect entrepreneurs, angel and VC investors, hedge fund professionals and others with an interest in the growing digital currency ecosystem. CoinSummit London will take place on 10th-11th July at the East Wintergarden venue, right on the Thames waterfront, and as with previous CoinSummit events, will present a number of headline speakers from the spheres of digital currencies, startups and investment. This will be the third event from CoinSummit, which was founded by husband and wife team Pamir Gelenbe, entrepreneur and....
The world’s largest payments network is expanding its new technology center in India to focus on blockchain technology development for its global endeavors. VISA is going gung-ho on the blockchain technology and is setting up the infrastructure and personnel to push blockchain development, out of a development center in Bangalore, India. The payments giant had 400 engineers at the technology innovation lab at the time of launch in August 2015. At the time, Rajat Taneja, executive vice president for Technology at VISA revealed that the Indian center will jointly work with existing research....