Simone Syed

Simone Syed is the Founder and Managing Partner of Velorum Capital, an early stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. Prior to establishing her own venture fund, she served as an investment professional at Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital Management and held the position of Chief of Marketing at the Tradehill bitcoin exchange starting in 2011. Her extensive entrepreneurial background includes co-founding the mobile payment platform Bitcoin.com and establishing BlackStarr Media, a venture where she successfully partnered with prominent organizations such as SpaceX and the Discovery Channel. Additionally, she co-founded the BIL conference and contributed to early community building initiatives at the seasteading project Ephemerisle. Syed currently focuses her investment strategy on providing seed stage capital to technology companies operating across diverse industrial sectors, including manufacturing, construction, automation, biotechnology, energy, hardware, and data analytics.