Seth Ginns
Seth Ginns is Managing Partner, Head of Liquid Investments, and a member of the Venture Investment Committee at CoinFund, a leading cryptoasset-focused investment firm. He oversees liquid investment strategies in digital assets and explores the convergence between crypto and traditional equities markets. With 20 years of Wall Street experience, Seth has been actively engaged in the cryptocurrency ecosystem since his early angel investment in Coinbase in 2012. His expertise and network span the full spectrum of finance—from early-stage startups to large public companies, and from frontier innovation to established industries. Before joining CoinFund, Seth spent 18 years at Jennison Associates, one of New York’s largest asset managers, where he served as Managing Director on the Large Cap Growth team, investing across consumer, healthcare, and cyclical sectors.
Seth Ginns Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Managing Partner, Head of Liquidity Investments
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Managing Director
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Analyst, Investment Banking, Healthcare
Academic History
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B.A., Math, South Asia Regional Studies
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Overseer, School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania
Co-Chair of the Innovation Committee, University of Pennsylvania
Advisory Board, Center for the Advanced Study of India at the School of Arts and Sciences
EARLY CAREER
Ginns spent 18 years at Jennison Associates where he served as Managing Director on the Large Cap Growth team, investing across consumer, healthcare, and cyclical sectors.
At Jennison Associates, he also invested across industrials, energy, materials, discretionary, machinery, agriculture, retail, and aerospace and defense.
He started his career as an analyst within the Healthcare Investment Banking at Credit Suisse.
ANGEL INVESTING
Ginns was among the first to invest in Coinbase, Bitcoin, and Ethereum, ultimately driving his full-time involvement in the crypto industry.
He is also an angel investor in Starkware and Chainalysis, and participated in the Ethereum ICO in 2014
His angel portfolio also includes Instacart, BillionToOne and DoorDash, and many earlier stage, high growth startups.
MEDIA PRESENCE
Ginns has been featured or quoted in Bloomberg, Yahoo! Finance, BusinessWire, Business Insider, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, TechCrunch, and Real Vision.