Summary
Jerry X is an investments leader with 11 years of experience building and deploying venture and private-market strategies across fintech, blockchain and AI, currently leading the Early-Stage Venture Fund at the Stellar Development Foundation. He focuses on stablecoin-native infrastructure and smart-contract use cases—cross-border payments, digital asset issuance, on-chain lending and real-world asset tokenization—backing companies from pre-seed through Series B. As a founding team member of Kepler Fi (a GIC subsidiary) he helped design fund strategy, joint ventures and product launches aimed at disrupting traditional asset management, and has experience across machine-driven investing, quantum computing adjacent plays and big data. Based in New York, he combines a Stern finance and accounting background with ongoing MSc work in analytics and machine learning, bringing quant-driven insight to early-stage diligence and portfolio construction. An uncommon strength is his track record as a board observer across multiple startups, giving him practical governance experience alongside deal-sourcing and sector-specialist conviction.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS Analytics/Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS Analytics/Machine Learning at Georgia Institute of Technology
BS Finance and Accounting Minor in Business of Entertainment Media and Technology, BS Finance and Accounting Minor in Business of Entertainment Media and Technology at NYU Stern School of Business
Chinese, English, Spanish