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BLOCKCHAIN CAPITAL, LLC
CRYPTO CURRENCY PARTNERS II, LP
NOVEMBER 2014
CRYPTO CURRENCY
PARTNERS
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EXPERIENCED TEAM IN INVESTING
BART STEPHENS BRAD STEPHENS BROCK PIERCE PAUL STEPHENS
• Stephens Inv.
• Stephens Inv.
• Bitcoin Foundation
• Robertson
Mgmt.
Mgmt.
Board Member
Stephens & Co.
• Ivanhoe Capital
• Fidelity Ventures
• Founded 15x
• RS Investments
EXPERIENCE
• E*Trade Group
• CSFB
Startups
• Duke Univ.
• Princeton
• Furman Selz
• Raised > $200M
Endowment
• Duke
• Invested in > 25x
• UC Berkeley
Startups
Endowment
RECOGNITION
#2 U.S. Long/Short Hedge Fund*
2.5x Venture Fund, 11.5% IRR
Leaders in Technology
Investing
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CRYPTO CURRENCY
PARTNER
Founded 8 crypto
currency startups
and often
referred to as the
"father of digital
currency"
40 Years in
Silicon Valley
Investment
Management and
Banking
Incubated and Founded
Dozens of Startups
100's of Silicon Valley
Investments
*Absolute Return Magazine 2014
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ABOUT STEPHENS INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC
STEPHENS
INVESTMENT
MANAGEMENT
FOUNDED IN 2002 BY THE STEPHENS BROTHERS
INSTITUTIONAL HEDGE FUNDS & VENTURE FUNDS
ASSETS UNDER MANAGEMENT: $150M
Decades of Clicr-Pssful Growth Investing
CRYPTO CURRENCY
ANTHERS
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SUCCESSFUL TRACK RECORD OF HOME RUNS
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2011
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2007
3.4x
Private and Public Exits through Multiple Market Cycles
CRYPTO CURRENCY
PARTNERS
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BROCK PIERCE - "FATHER OF DIGITAL CURRENCY"
INDUSTRY LEADER AND SPOKESPERSON
Singularity
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Bitcoin Foundation
• Protocol Roadmap
• Global Regulatory Insight
• Thought leader exposure
PATRICK MURCK
GENERAL COUNSEL
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GAVIN ANDRESEN
CHIEF SCIENTIST
Repeat Entrepreneur and Digital Currency Visionary
CRYPTO CURRENCY
PARTNERS
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BROCK PIERCE - SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR
expresso
FOUNDED CRYPTC
GoCoin (payment processor)
expresscoin (retail exchange)
FOUNDED NON-CRYPTO
IGE (2001-2007)
Zam (2004-2012)
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ZenBox (ATM / remittance network)
RAl
IMI Exchange (2004-Present)
IXAtt
Zoomhash (cloud / hardware mining)
Xfire 2.0 (2011-Present)
Obitcoir
Blade Financial (Bitcoin debit card)
Playsino (2011-Present)
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Noble Markets (institutional exchange)
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Five Delta (2012-2014)
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Coin Congress (conference)
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GamesTV (2005-2007)
Evertune (2008-Present)
Tether (fiat backed alt coin)
Extensive History of Defining Digital Currencies
CRYPTO CURRENCY
PARTNERS
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CRYPTO CURRENCY
PARTNERS
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PARTNERS
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USE CASES FOR "BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY"
Financial and Records
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Bitcoin
Private Equities
Bonds
Public Equities
Shareholder Voting
Remittance
Crowd-funding
Spending Records
Micro-payments
Commodities
Trading Records
Derivatives
Mortgage/loan records
Micro-finance
Servicing records
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Land titles
Birth certificates
Vehicle registries
Business license
Business Incorporation/dissolution
Business Ownership records
Regulatory records
Criminal records
Passports
Death certificates
Voter IDs
Building permits
Health/safety inspections
Non-profit records
Court records
Gun permits Voting
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CRYPTO CURRENCY
PARTNERS
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Smart Contracts
Signatures/identity
Degrees
Wills
Genome data
Trusts
Licensing
Medical Records
Escrows
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Grades
Patents
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Accounting records
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Betting records
Hotel room keys
Safety deposit box keys
Coupons
Vouchers
Domain names
Betting records
Movie Tickets
DRM: Music/movie/book license
GPS network identity
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INDUSTRY GROWTH OVER THE PAST YEAR
Key Bitcoin Adoption Metrics
Quarterly
Sep-14
Jun-14
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Wallets
6.559.978
5.427.688
21%
Merchants
76.000
63.000
21%
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86
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196%
ATMs
251
103
144%
Unique bitcoin addresses
184.554
136.152
36%
Industry
All-time VC investment ($m)
317.0'
225.3
41%
Number of VC-backed startups
66'
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32%
Media
Mainstream media mentions
9.398
9.024
4%
Technology
Network Hash Rate (billion/second)
261.900.382 111.194.683
136%
Github no. of updated repositories
18.753
15.109
24%
Valuation
Bitcoin market capitalization ($bn)
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PARTNERS
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HYPER GROWTH- ONE YEAR
The Mining Arms Race: A More Plausible
Total Exchange Trading Volume Sees
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PARTNERS
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CASE STUDY: ChangeCoin
ChangeTip enables a "tipping" feature using Bitcoin on other companies' websites. It
has built a Bitcoin micropayment platform that is currently integrated with Twitter,
GitHub, Reddit, Google+, Tumblr, and YouTube.
We believe that ChangeCoin's micro transaction platform is poised to be the financial
equivalent of the "Like" button, and enabling new mechanisms for premium online
constant to be monetized
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Sep 14
Date
CRYPTO CURRENCY
PARTNERS
— Sum of Social Accounts
— Sum of Users
— Sun of Tips
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CCP II - INVESTMENT APPROACH
VERTICALS
CONSUMER
• Exchanges
• Remittance
• Digital Wallets
INFRASTRUCTURE
• Side Chains
• Blockchain Apps
• Mining
ENTERPRISE
• Multi-sig
workflow
• Payment
Gateways
• Financial Tools
RIGOROUS
PROCESS
• Deep Global Domain
Knowledge
• Extensive Networks
• Proprietary Deal Flow
• Primary Investigative
Due Diligence
• Exhaustive
Management/
Industry Interaction
CRYPTO CURRENCY
PARTNER
VALUE—ADD
• Recruiting
• Business
Development
• Capital Introduction
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HISTORIC
VENTURE
RETURNS
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CCP II - STRATEGY AND MAKE-UP
FUND POSITION
ALLOCATION
FUND POSITION STRATEGY
$20M
40% New CCP II investments
30% Reserves for CCP II follow-on rounds
30% Access to CCP follow-on rounds
Leverage our network and industry expertise to find
investments that utilize Blockchain technologies and
help these portfolio companies disrupt legacy industries.
Access to CCP's early seed deals as well as future deals
Cod
CRYPTO CURRENCY
PARTNERS
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CCP II - CONTRIBUTED INVESTMENTS
BitGo
June '14
575,000
Series A preferred
Coinsetter
December '13
550,000
Convert to Series A
expresscoin
November '13
525,000
Convert to Series A, 52.5m Cap
GoCoin
October '13
520,000
Note converted 4.5x at Series A
GoCoin
October '13
580,000
Common at 52.5m, 4.5x at Series A
Kraken
April '14
570,000
Series A preferred
LedgerX
July `14
550,000
Series A preferred
TOTAL
$37O,OOO
(current value —$73O,OOO)
SIM and Brock contributing Bitcoin Co-Investments at cost to CCP II
CRYPTO CURRENCY
PARTNER S
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CCP II - INVESTMENTS MADE
PeerNova
September '14
550,000
Note Discounted to Series A preferred
BitAccess
September '14
525,000
Note Discounted to Series A preferred
BitPesa
September '14
$100,000
Note Discounted to Series A preferred
BlockStream
October '14
$100,000
Series A preferred
ChangeCoin
October '14
$100,000
Series A Preferred
BitNet
October '14
$75,000
Series A Preferred
TOTAL
$45O,OOO
Actively continuing to invest in the ecosystem
CRYPTO CURRENCY
PARTNER S
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CCP - PARTNERS AND ADVISORY BOARD
BOBBY LEE
WILL O'BRIEN
VINNY LINGHAM
MALCOLM CASSELLE
STEVE BEAUREGARD
CHARLIE LEE
IFTIKAR AHMED
MATTHEW ROSZAK
SCOTT WALKER
ADAM ETTINGER
BILL LEE
CEO, BTC China
CEO, BitGo
CEO, Gyft (acquired by First Data)
CEO, Timeline Labs
CEO, GoCoin
Coinbase, Founder of Litecoin
Partner, Oak Investment Partners
Partner, Tally Capital
Founder, ZenBox and ZoomHash
leading Bitcoin legal counsel
prolific angel investor
Built a robust team of Advisors and LPs from Bitcoin ecosystem
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CRYPTO CURRENCY
PARTNERS
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CCP II - SUMMARY OF TERMS
TERM
FEE/INCENTIVE
GP CONTRIBUTION
INVESTMENTS
STRUCTURE
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CRYPTO CURRENCY
PARTNERS
$20M
6-8 Years
2.5% / 25%
+2.5% Fund or + $500k
30 ($100k - $500k per deal)
Called Capital, BTC Accepted
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CCP II - SERVICE PROVIDERS
ADMINISTRATION / CFO
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BTC VAULT
0
CRYPTO CURRENCY
PARTNER S
Kranz & Associates
Sidley Austin
Crawford Pimintel
Silicon Valley Bank
Merrill Lynch
Xapo
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SUMMARY
CRYPTO CURRENCY
PARTNERS
FIRST DEDICATED BITCOIN VENTURE FUND
UNPARALLELED ACCESS TO DEAL-FLOW
PROVEN TRACK RECORDS
Building the Future Leaders in the Bitcoin Ecosystem
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CRYPTO CURRENCY
PARTNER S
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