Dovey Wan
Dovey Wan is the Founding Partner of Primitive Ventures, a global crypto venture firm. Under her leadership, Primitive Ventures has incubated and invested in over 50 high-impact protocols and on-chain economies. Dovey is a prominent figure in the crypto and blockchain industry with extensive experience in both Asian and U.S. crypto communities. Prior to Primitive, she served as Managing Director of DHVC, a venture capital firm investing primarily in early and growth-stage tech companies. Dovey began her career at eBay where she spent four years working as a Data Science Engineer, Senior Business Analyst, and Product Manager.
Dovey Wan Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founding Partner
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Product Manager
Academic History
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M.S., Information Systems
AFFILIATIONS & INVESTMENTS
Dovey is an advisory board member for Coindesk, Spacemesh, and Theta Labs. She is also an investor and advisor for Tendermint and TrustToken.
She is an investor at Chaos Labs, HOOKED Protocol, RockX, Nansen, Optimism Foundation, Biconomy, Multichain, DODO, Figure, Celer Network, StarkWare Industries, and Nefeli Networks.
She is also an investor at Messari, Keep Network, Money Lion, Polychain Capital, Brave Software, Path AI, Pilot AI, Flexport, GrubMarket, Wish, String Labs, and Survios.
She also serves as a mentor for the LAUNCH founded by Jason Calacanis, advisor to Arrington XRP Capital founded by Michael Arrington, Director of Academic Partnership of Open Blockchain Foundation.
EARLY CAREER
Dovey was a Product Manager for eBay, responsible for leading a team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and markets to ideate, design, and optimize new products from scratch.
She was also involved in eBay's product optimization and opportunity sizing, taste graph and recommendation engine analysis.
She served on the boards of LimeBike, Blockfolio, SLIVER, Barefoot Networks, Syntiant Corp, Chariot, and ApplePie Capital.
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Dovey has been featured or quoted in CoinDesk and Cointelegraph.
She has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.