VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTOR

Miko is a General Partner with gCC Gumi Cryptos Capital, a Silicon Valley investment fund with over $200M in assets including early-stage investments in unicorns like OpenSea, Yield Guild Games, Ether.Fi, Astar, IntoTheBlock and 1Inch Network.

He built his first neural network in 1990 during his graduate work at Yale Neuroscience–a 33 parameter back-propagation network based on Rumelhart, Hinton and Williams 1986 seminal paper. Miko came to Silicon Valley and fell in love with open source software 30 years ago as chief Developer Evangelist for the Java Programming Language and Platform at Sun Microsystems. Since then he has been building open source software startups in Silicon Valley including raising over $50 million in venture capital for developer platform companies such as Gradle and financial infrastructure companies like Hazelcast and has participated in multiple exits including INFRAVIO, webMethods, and Db4O.

Miko has been a guest instructor at Stanford, a guest lecturer at Yale University and a speaker at the Wharton School Cypher Accelerator. He has also spoken at blockchain industry events such as Coindesk Consensus, ETH Denver, and is a founder of San Francisco’s oldest crypto meetup, Crypto Underground.

He is a board member or advisor in successful startups like IntoTheBlock (algorithmic trading), LIT Protocol (NFT Access Control) and KEYLESS (ID infrastructure). He holds a Master’s degree in Neuroscience from Yale University.