Who We Are

We’re on a mission to fundamentally transform what investment products people have access to on a global scale and believe cryptocurrencies are the best medium to achieve that.

We’re a diverse team of hackers and product people that have cut our teeth at Google, Microsoft, TikTok, Acorns, Binance, JP Morgan and multi-billion dollar hedge funds.
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Interested in what we’re building? Email us at team@emberfund.io with your resume. We’re looking for entrepreneurs, coders, and innovators that want to change money forever.

Our Team

Co-Founder | CEO

Previously product manager at a venture-backed artificial intelligence company. Extensive experience building, scaling consumer technology companies. BS from University of California, Berkeley.

Guillaume Torche

Co-Founder | CTO

Previously held senior data scientist/data engineer roles at various venture backed technology companies. Experience processing, scaling analyzing billions of data points.

Co-Founder | CIO

Resident cryptocurrency TA and trading expert. Extensive experience in managing large high-performance technology teams.

Operations at Acorns and previously a financial advisor at Northwestern Mutual. BS from University of California, Irvine.

Anthony Bruscantini

Senior Engineer

Full-stack engineer with a focus on Javascript and web technologies.

Previously ran growth at Blockfolio and led User Growth & Analytics as the 12th employee at TikTok. First invested in cryptocurrencies in 2011. BA from Johns Hopkins & MBA from USC.

Customer obsessed and data focused Associate Product Manager. Previous work at Intuit and Wells Fargo Asset Management. BA from University of California, Berkeley.

Karim Lamouri

Senior Software Engineer

Previously Lead Machine Learning Engineer and Lead Data Engineering at a trendy Ad Tech company. Experience processing and enriching millions of events per day and supporting architecture.

Daniel Trinh

Software Engineer

Fullstack Engineer with a passion for Blockchain with prior experience at multiple crypto startups (the NFT and Ethereum mining spaces) and tech consultancy. BS in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Fund Managers

Eric is the CEO of one of the top multi-strategy cryptocurrency hedge funds in the US, Blockforce Capital.

Marius is the #1 writer on Quora for cryptocurrencies, generating over 7 million monthly views. He is an advisor for a previous YC company with a run rate of $1.5M.

Nicholas Merten

Nicholas (DataDash) is the #1 crypto influencer on YouTube with 300,000+ subscribers. He also runs a highly successful macro market newsletter.

Our Advisers

Rena is the current Director of BD at Binance US. She previously was a management consultant with Kinship for a stablecoin project and a blockchain-based energy grid. For fun, she runs a 100% renewable energy crypto mining pool.

Technology Advisor

Deergha is a Data Science and Engineering leader. With stints at Google, Microsoft and Quantcast, she has over a decade of experience scaling data, algorithms and quantitative analyses across multiple industries.