Board
Jim is a Co-Founder and General Partner at RRE Ventures. Over the last thirty years he has invested in over sixty companies and served on the boards of more than forty-five. His core investment focus is on businesses transforming industries by leveraging network effects, intelligence, and decentralization – including early bets on new technologies in mobile payments and blockchains. Jim is currently a Director of Abra, CAMP, Netsertive, Noom, Securrency and TheSkimm, and a Board Observer at Bitpay and HYPR. In addition, he led early investments in 21e6, Bitnomial, DCG, Lightning Labs, Paxos and Ripple.
Joshua Rivera is the General Counsel of Blockchain Capital. He joined the firm in June of 2018. Joshua is an expert in the legal and regulatory issues attending various aspects of the crypto industry including token protocols, DeFi, DAOs, NFTs and digital asset commodities and securities, and he has extensive experience analyzing the blockchain industry’s rapidly evolving regulatory landscape. Joshua works with the investment team in assessing salient legal questions pertinent to prospective and current portfolio companies and brings to bear his legal expertise and connections to help forecast the ongoing development of the industry. Joshua also serves as a director on the Board of the Blockchain Association, the industry’s leading regulatory trade association.
Alvaro Rodríguez co-founded IGNIA in June 2007 and has served as managing partner since that date. Alvaro has been working with entrepreneurs for 15 years as the first venture capital fund in Mexico. IGNIA is a cross-border early-stage venture capital firm based in the US and Mexico investing in tech entrepreneurs from around the world who are solving pain points faced by the emerging middle class in Latin America. Alvaro led the investments in Rapyd, Tiendanube, Abra, Arcus, Credijusto, Lentesplus, ProducePay, UnDosTres and Sr. Pago.
Jack founded HCM Capital in 2014 and has been investing across from digital assets, Fintech to, in recent years, Bitcoin space. He currently sits on the board of Abra. Jack was previously Board Director at Galaxy Digital, Cambridge Blockchain (acquired), FnConn, etc. He also serves as a strategic advisor to Figure Technologies, and as a Fellow at SUSS (Singapore University of Social Science).