Anton Shakur is Partner & Head of Hodl Ventures, the venture capital arm of Hodl Group. Anton is leading early-stage investments in the application and infrastructure layers across several Web3 verticals. He started at Hodl in Research, where Anton laid the foundation for a new venture capital fund of Hodl. Before joining the company, he was a trader and a private investor, working with one of the biggest cryptocurrency miners in the Netherlands since 2017. He holds M.S. degree from BSEU in International Affairs and an MBA from The Hague University of Applied Sciences.