Aly Madhavji, Founder and Managing Partner, Blockchain Founders Fund
Industry: Blockchain and Emerging Technology Early Stage Venture Capital. (Industry and location agnostic, asset-light companies, B2B preference).
Summary: A pre-seed and seed stage fund driven by a go-to market venture program, based in Singapore.
Highlights:
- Publish thought leadership pieces regularly on INSEAD Knowledge and Cointelegraph among others.
- Aly holds an MBA from INSEAD and is a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
- The Team has vast experience with scaling, business management and mentor at leading accelerators globally.
- Venture Partners plugged into the blockchain scene with expertise across the enterprise, technology, banking, and consumer sector among others.
- 200+ highly senior members in the BFF Global Expert Network supporting our portfolio companies, including executives from many fortune 500 companies.
- Scalex Venture Fund Performance
- Supports portfolio companies with hands on approach through an intensive to-to market venture program across the following business functions: Marketing, Growth Hacking, Process Automation, Revenue Generation and Pilot Launching (POC's for Validation).
- Prior to Blockchain Founders Fund Aly led corporate turnarounds for PwC, involved in the strategy team at Paypal and founded an early cryptocurrency exchange.
- BFF has achieved a 119% annualized IRR and 4.06X TVPI in two years.
- Scalex Global Innovation Fund Goal and Strategy
- Raise $30 million for the Global Innovation Fund and invest in 40 Pre-Seed and Seed companies per year over 4 years (10 year fund lifecycle.)
- 0/20 Management Fee Structure*, aligning GP & LP interests for portfolio performance.
- Attractive entry valuations standardized between $500k and $8m. Guaranteed low entry valuation on every deal. Initial investments standardized between $60k-160k, with 250k follow-ons for the top quartile of the portfolio.
- Multi channel deal flow: Partners speak frequently at premiere blockchain, tech & startup events globally, Network of venture partners scout and refer startups, Developed proprietary system to source and engage startups based on early stage data
- Currently 70+ corporate partnerships with companies such as Google, AWS, Microsoft and Alibaba offer portfolio companies perks valued at over $1 million.
- 40 investments over two years (20 year one investments), 5 portfolio companies (at sub $5mil. valuations) have since raised at valuations between $20-100mil.
- Team
20+ years of investing and emerging technology experience with 40+ seed investments in companies like Splinterlands, Allrites, Baanx, Beatdapp and Taloflow (YCW21).
Seeking: LP investors for the Scalex Global Innovation Fund based out of Singapore.