Brock Pierce is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist with extensive experience in founding, advising and investing in disruptive businesses.
He has been credited as a pioneer in the digital currency market and has raised more than $5 billion for the companies he founded.
Pierce is the chairman of The Bitcoin Foundation and co-founder of EOS Alliance, Block.one, Blockchain Capital, Tether and Mastercoin (first ICO).
Blockchain Capital was founded in 2013 and is the first industry-focused venture fund that invests exclusively in Blockchain technology companies.
Pierce led the company through the first ICO of a venture fund, which created the first security token. Blockchain Capital has made more than 100 investments in the sector through its four funds. The firm was named the most active FinTech Venture Fund by Pitchbook.
Pierce is an early investor in Bitcoin and one of the largest investors in the Ethereum crowdsale. He is the founder of IMI Exchange, the world's leading digital currency marketplace for gaming, with annual sales in excess of $1 billion and investors such as Goldman Sachs, which was sold in 2016 for over $100 million. Pierce founded ZAM, one of the world's largest multimedia properties for gamers, which was acquired by Tencent in 2012.
He founded IGE, the pioneer of digital currency in online games, achieving revenues in excess of $100 million in 2006 and sold in 2007. Pierce is also co-founder of D10e, GoCoin, Blade Payments, Five Delta (sold NASDAQ: SRAX), Xfire 2.0, Playsino, Evertune, GamesTV and DEN He also advises companies such as Airswap, Bancor, BitGo, BitGuild, BlockV, Bloq, DNA, Element Group, Metronome, Shyft, tZERO and ODX.
Pierce is a frequent lecturer at Singularity University and has spoken at the Milken Global Conference, Mobile World Congress, Wired, INK, Stanford University, USC and UCLA.
He has been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, Wired and Rolling Stone.
Current Job
- Block.one, co-founder
- EOS, co-founder and board member
- Tether, co-founder
- Blockchain Capital, co-founder
- Bancor, advisor
- Airswap, advisor
- BLOCKv, advisor
- BitGo, advisor
- Metronome, advisor
- Bitcoin Foundation, Chairman of the Board
- Paybook, Advisor
- The Element Group, Advisor
- GoCoin, Co-Founder
- Noble Bank, Co-Founder
- Mastercoin, Co-Founder
- DNA, Co-Founder
- D10e, Co-Founder
Education
- University of Southern California
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