Aaron W
Investment Director at SoftBank Investment Advisers
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAaron W is a Vice President at SoftBank Investment Advisers with eight years of investment experience focused on fintech, blockchain, and high-growth software companies. He leads and advises portfolio positions in market leaders and category-defining startups including Databricks, Fanatics, AlphaSense, Runway, Perplexity, and SpaceX, and often serves as board member or observer pre-IPO. A co-founder of ParaFi Capital and former KKR associate, he blends institutional private markets rigor with early-stage crypto-native instincts, having backed and guided companies like Aleo, Quantstamp, The Sandbox, and bloXroute. Based in New York, he also participates as an angel and strategic investor across consumer and infrastructure plays—from Robinhood and Coinbase to Flipkart and Veho. Notably, his deals span both traditional tech exits and emerging web3 governance roles, reflecting a dual emphasis on scalable business models and protocol-level value. He graduated with a BCom in Finance from UBC with a 3.9 GPA, underscoring a strong quantitative foundation behind his deal-making.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Finance, 3.9/4.0, Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Finance, 3.9/4.0 at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (7)
blockchain7
uniswap7
ethereum6
simulation5
token-list3
smart-contracts1
solidity1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
quantstamp/development_process
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:23 commits, 3 pushes in 4 months
beacon-thugs-harmony/beacon_chain_simulator
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Implements a simulation for the sharded pos ethereum 2.0.
Contributions:36 commits, 31 pushes in 5 days
ethereumsimulation
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