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Ryan Selkis is an American angel investor and entrepreneur who lives in New York City. He is the founder of Messari Crypto and former managing director at CoinDesk.
Selkis is originally from Albany, New York. He graduated cum laude in finance from Boston College with a degree in 2008. He dropped out of the MIT Sloan School of Management in order to pursue opportunities in bitcoin.
At the start of his vocation, Ryan functioned as an Analyst for JPMorgan and an Associate at Summit Partners. Ryan is the Founder and CEO of Good Benefits Inc. which plans custom work environment programs for organizations that wish to add a magnanimous offering alternative to representatives.
Ryan got engaged with the Bitcoin people group in 2013 and established TBI Consulting that bootstrapped undertakings, for example, the TBI Daily Newsletter just as Venture Capital Consulting.
In 2014, Ryan turned into the Director of Growth for the Digital Currency Group where he contributed and scaled computerized cash adventures. In January 2016, Ryan drove the securing of CoinDesk. His prosperity at CoinDesk incorporates sorting out the biggest business occasion facilitated to date with 2,600 participants (Consensus 2017), and moving HQ from London to NYC.
Founder & CEO
Messari
Jan 2018 – present time
New York, NY
Managing Director
CoinDesk
Jan 2016 - July 2017
Greater New York City Area
Director of Growth (formerly Director of Investments)
Digital Currency Group
Oct 2014 - Aug 2016
Greater New York City Area
Founder
TBI Consulting, LLC
Dec 2013 - Oct 2014
New York, San Francisco
Founder and CEO
Good Benefits, Inc.
Aug 2011 - Sept 2014
Greater Boston Area
Associate
Summit Partners
July 2008 - July 2011
Greater Boston Area
Analyst
JPMorgan
May 2007 - Aug 2007
Greater New York City Area
Ryan Selkis made 13 investments. His latest investment is Seed Round - Massive on Nov 30, 2021. Ryan Selkis invested $11M in Massive.
He has also invested in the following companies:
Nov 30, 2021 Massive — Seed Round - $11M
Nov 3, 2021 Syndica — Seed Round - $8M
Oct 28, 2021 Squads — Seed Round - $1.5M
Oct 19, 2021 Sublime Finance — Seed Round - $2.5M
Sep 28, 2021 Roll — Series A - $10M
Aug 31, 2021 XMTP — Series A - $20M
Jul 13, 2021 Superfluid Finance — Seed Round - $9M
Jun 30, 2021 Syndicate — Seed Round - $800K
May 18, 2021 SubDAO Network — Funding Round
May 17, 2021 Goldfinch — Series A - $11.7M
In 2020 as in the year prior, Selkis was one of the most outspoken individuals in the cryptocurrency space. He was one of the first in the industry to speak out on the potential effects of the coronavirus pandemic, and he alleged that he was “shadow-banned” by Twitter as a result. In his end-of-the-year report with Messari, he stated that the United States government was the “final boss” in the way of Bitcoin mass adoption, along with calling XRP “toxic waste” and Litecoin and Stellar’s Lumen token “piles of shit” — claims that resulted in exchange Bitwise apologizing for sharing the report.
Meanwhile, Messari was omnipresent in the crypto media space, providing data, analysis and predictions that were the basis of numerous news reports. The firm was one of the first major crypto companies to announce that it would move to a fully remote working structure in response to the coronavirus pandemic. In May, Messari revamped and added 10 additional exchanges to its “real volume” metric, which seeks to eliminate wash trading from exchange rankings.
Selkis has been a major figure in crypto media since he launched TBI’s Daily Bit and broke the Mt. Gox story, and there is no reason to believe that 2021 will be any different. His pointed, often controversial communication style will keep him in the headlines, and he will certainly find new crypto projects to directly call out as flawed — with less-than-flowery language, however. Keeping up with his tendency to react quickly to brewing crises, he will likely be one of the first to respond to any major events that shape the space in 2021.
Cointelegraph expects Messari to remain a major player as well, continuing to make ambitious predictions about the future of the industry and acting as a resource to dozens of major crypto companies. 2021 will test the company’s predictions it has made about the year, such as that institutions will buy Ether next and that Tether could fall into serious crisis. While it remains to be seen if the firm is right about its predictions, if they do prove to be correct, this would provide a major boost to Messari and its reputation as crypto’s Magic 8-Ball.
