William Mougayar

Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Angel
Investor Stage
Seed

William Mougayar is a Toronto-based investor, researcher, blogger, and best-selling author of The Business Blockchain (Wiley, 2016). He is a direct participant in the crypto-technology market, working alongside startups, entrepreneurs, pioneers, leaders, innovators, creators, enterprise executives and practitioners.

William is the general partner at Virtual Capital Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund, and currently on the Board of Directors of OB1, the OpenBazaar open source protocol that is pioneering decentralized peer-to-peer commerce, a Board Advisor to the Ethereum Foundation, a member of OMERS Ventures Board of Advisors, an Advisory Board member to the Coin Center and Bloq. He blogs regularly about the present and future of blockchains at Startup Management.

Previously, he held senior positions at Hewlett-Packard, Cognizant and Aberdeen Group, and he founded 3 startups, CYBERManagement, Eqentia, and Engagio.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
8
William Mougayar has made 8 investments. Their most recent investment was on Jun 11, 2015, when OpenBazaar raised $1M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
May 3, 2022 Decrypt Series Unknown $10M Bitcoin Detail
Sep 12, 2019 Dapper Labs Series B $11.20M Blockchain Detail
Oct 19, 2018 Dapper Labs Series A $15M Blockchain Detail
Mar 20, 2018 Dapper Labs Series A $12.85M Blockchain Detail
Mar 13, 2018 OB1 Series A $5M Bitcoin Detail
Jun 1, 2016 Mediachain Seed $1.50M Art Detail
Jun 11, 2015 OpenBazaar Seed $1M Bitcoin Detail
Apr 24, 2015 OB1 Seed $1M Bitcoin Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
2
William Mougayar has 2 current jobs including ICO Advisor at Tierion , Advisor at Bloq and .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Tierion ICO Advisor Detail
Bloq Advisor Detail