Gregory Rocco
Operating Partner
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGregory Rocco is an operating partner and early-stage investor based in New York with nine years of experience building and scaling product-led crypto and identity startups. He co-founded and served as CPO of SpruceID, advises the company today, and has transitioned into portfolio and operating leadership at Ethereal Ventures. Gregory blends product management roots from ConsenSys with hands-on startup building and content strategy experience from media roles, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary lens on product, go-to-market, and community. A Y Combinator alumnus with an MA in Digital Humanities, he combines technical product intuition with storytelling skills—apt for positioning developer-first infrastructure in crowded markets. Colleagues describe him as methodical yet creative, a leader who turns protocol ideas into user-facing products and investable businesses.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
W21, W21 at Y CombinatorMaster of Arts - MA Digital Humanities, Master of Arts - MA Digital Humanities at The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Special Honors Curriculum English Language and Literature - Departmental Honors, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Special Honors Curriculum English Language and Literature - Departmental Honors at Hunter College
English
Github Skills (93)
taxonomy10
identity10
cosmos10
smart-contracts10
solidity10
core-library10
chain10
ssi10
decentralized-identifiers10
bitcoin10
tezos10
ethereum10
blockchain10
react10
gatsby9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
obstropolos/EIPs
Apr 2022 - Feb 2023
The Ethereum Improvement Proposal repository
Contributions:3 PRs, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
ethereumimprovement-proposalblockchainsoliditysmart-contracts
obstropolos/tabwrap
Apr 2020 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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