Our Team
Our people combine traditional institutional investing experience with a passion for living on the edge of blockchain-enabled financial innovation
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Alex Marinier
Founder & General Partner
Alex is Founder & General Partner at New Form. Previously, Alex was an investor at Sand Hill firm DCM Ventures, where he led the firm's expansion into blockchain investing. Prior to that, Alex worked in private equity at Blackstone in New York underwriting secondary transactions. He's a seed investor in Compound Finance, Blockfolio, and Chia among others. A native New Yorker, Alex holds a BSc from Cornell's SC Johnson College of Business.
Jeremy Wallis
Investment Partner
Jeremy is an Investment Partner focused on blockchain infrastructure products. Prior to New Form, Jeremy was responsible for blockchain investing at Stonegate Digital. Before that, Jeremy worked on PE transactions at Boston-based Kamylon Holdings and also founded a currency exchange startup. He holds a BSc in economics from George Washington University.
Andrew Israel
Investment Partner
Andrew is an Investment Partner at New Form. Previously, Andrew worked on private credit transactions at Morgan Stanley on the Lev Fin team. He has been an active participant in Web3 networks since 2017 and is motivated by distributed computing's potential to change the way individuals interact with money, property, and each other. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a BA in statistics, data Science, and economics.
Jake Schwartz
Venture Partner
Jake is a Venture Partner at New Form focusing on firm strategy. Formerly Jake was co-founder and CEO of General Assembly, which sold to Adecco Group for over $400M in 2018. He has been actively investing in the blockchain sector since 2014 and is passionate about the technology's potential to challenge the existing structure of internet oligopolies. Jake holds a BA from Yale and an MBA from Wharton.
Srini
Entrepreneur In Residence
Chris is an EIR at New Form and co-founder of Enhanced Digital Group, a New Form portfolio company. Most recently, Chris was a Management and Investment Committee member of UBS Hedge Fund Solutions, a +$40bn alternative investment group. He began his career at Goldman Sachs where he led currency options and equity derivative trading desks before leading global trading teams for Merrill Lynch. Chris holds a BSc in economics from M.I.T.
Alina Pettsold
Executive Assistant
Alina is an Executive Assistant at New Form and oversees firm administrative initiatives. She previously held auditor roles in the non-profit space in the US and Europe. Alina holds a Master of Arts in international relations and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and law from Brooklyn College.
New York Hustle
Our offices are located in NYC, where we partner with some of the world's leading capital allocators investing in digital assets.
