BLOCKTOWER
General Partner & Head of Venture

Mr. Klocanas runs BlockTower's Venture Capital fund, which is currently investing out of a $150m early-stage fund, in addition to the firm's hedge fund and credit fund activities. Mr. Klocanas spent his early career in the banking industry, focusing on the technology, media and telecommunications sectors across Nomura, Credit Agricole and Bank of America from a M&A perspective, before joining Barclays in London in equity research and covering fintech, payments and banks, where he was first exposed to the cryptocurrency space as of 2014. In 2017, following his MBA, Mr. Klocanas moved into the blockchain industry as a Director in Strategy at ConsenSys and Business Development Lead at Meridio (now ConsenSys Codefi) where he worked on prominent projects such as one of the first security tokens issued on the Ethereum mainnet, as well as in various consulting roles at Blockstack and Coinhouse. In recent years prior to joining BlockTower in late 2021, Mr. Klocanas helped structure, raise and run White Star Capital’s fifty million dollar Digital Asset Fund. Mr. Klocanas earned a bachelor’s degree from Bocconi University in 2012, a master’s degree from HEC Paris in 2015 and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2018.