Era Qian

Era Qian heads digital asset investing at Matrix Capital, a leading global long-short equity hedge fund with $9B assets under management. Matrix has a 22-year track record of investing in disruptive technologies and pioneering business across software & cloud, streaming media, payments & e-commerce, semiconductor, and tech-life sciences sectors. Employing a multi-decade approach, Matrix identifies transformative technology themes and backs visionary entrepreneurs in the public and private markets. Combining both traditional equity experience and crypto-native knowledge, Era has invested and built a large network of crypto founders since early 2017. With a builder-first mentality, she and her team focus on strategic investments in Web3, protocol, fintech, DeFi, NFTs, metaverse, and digital asset infrastructure that reshape the next generation of the internet. Prior to Matrix, Era was a senior investment strategist and early employee at Galaxy Digital, a $1.2B Digital Asset focused investment fund, where she helped build and invested globally since the start. Previously, she was also a Partner at 8 Decimal Capital in New York and a tech private equity investor at the Inkwell group. Era holds an MSc in Computer Science and Information System from Columbia University and a B.A. in Finance from Georgetown University.