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Republic curates private investing opportunities with high-growth potential across startups, gaming, real estate, and crypto.






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High-growth platform
$500,000,000+ invested by 1M+ people in over 500 completed deals.


Growth opportunities for all sides of the investment market
Republic is where both accredited and non-accredited investors meet entrepreneurs and access high-growth potential deals across a range of private markets.




Built by a diverse team with deep expertise in private investing
Republic was founded by alumni from AngelList, the largest online platform for private investing. Since then, we have built a team and a network of the top people from the startup, venture capital, and investment worlds.


Abhi Shah
Business
Senior Associate, Investment Team. Previously, Associate at FastPay and Co-Founder of Huntington Angels Network B.S. in Finance from Northeastern University.

Ahrham Cho
Business
People Operations. Previously Finance and Operations Manager at Noom Inc. Worked as a CPA in a private accounting firm.

Alex Sukhanov
Product
Senior Engineering Manager. Founder & CEO at Hoodies company. Co-founder of Checky, a health startup.

Alex Ye
Republic Crypto
Partner, Economist. Previously at ZZ Ventures, UChicago Investment Office, and Top Tier Capital Partners. UChicago Economics.

Alexandra Cox-Cuzzi
Business
Senior Associate, Marketing & Operations. Previously at NextSeed, True Wealth Ventures, TriggerPoint. Cornell undergrad, pursuing MBA from UH Bauer School of Business.

Amanda Coopersmith
Product
Product Manager at Republic. Chapter Lead at SoGal Foundation. Formerly Systems & Ops Manager at StartOut and PM at Declare. BS in Product Design at Stanford University.

Amora Miller
Business
Venture Programs and Community Manager. From fashion to fintech. Studied Communications and Sociology at Manhattanville College.
Andrew Durgee
Republic Crypto
Managing Director. Pioneered early blockchain technology plays including an industry first multi signature wallet. Studied Management Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Was a Partner at a leading blockchain advisory group, TLDR Capital.
Anteneh Moges
Product
PM, Product Support. Previously Service Desk Manager at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, leading technical support for 4+ years. BA in Computer Science and MS in Management of Technology from NYU.

Anwaar AlMahmeed
Business
Managing Director, MENA. Co-founder of the East Chain Co. Lead organizer of The East Chain Open Hub (ECOH). Previously, product development at Boursa Kuwait during its initial privatization phase and Kuwait Investment Authority.

Ash Leavenworth
Business
Campaign Manager of Games at Fig, co-founder of Stumpt Gamers, interested in helping fund awesome video-games

Artem Pishchelev
Product
Product manager. Previously PM at Yandex Taxi and Alfa-Bank. Formerly an orchestra musician. MA in International Economy at MESI.

Ben Burman
Business
Campaign Execution Manager. Host of the Starting It Up Podcast. Previously Biz Dev at Wibbitz. Studied Operations & Info Management at UMass Amherst.

Boris Revsin
Republic Capital
Managing Director. Investor in Staked, Coinmine, Noble, Wellist, Jobble, TableList. Previously Founder BreaktimeMedia, Co-founder and President VentureApp. Studied Comp Sci. at UMassAmherst.

Brian Johnson
Republic Capital
Director at Republic Labs. Previously worked at UniCredit Bank AG. Studied finance at Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University.

Britany Jet Bacawat
Business
Investor Relations. 10 years of experience in Customer Service for Student Loan and Freelance companies. BS in Financial and Managerial Accounting.

Britt Cambas
Business
Director, New Products. Previously strategy at Orchard, venture investor at Elsewhere Partners and US Buyout fund management at The Carlyle Group. Wharton MBA, LSU.

Brooke Robbins
Business
Portfolio Success Lead. Formerly Fulbright Taiwan, B.A. from Columbia University.
Bryan Myint
Republic Crypto
Partner. Founding Partner at Taureon Capital. Previously Strategy Consultant at Enterey, Ops Manager at Breeze & Medical Device Engineer at Abbott. Studied engineering at UCLA.

Bryan Scordino
Republic Capital
Portfolio and Distribution Analyst. Previously, Senior Analyst in Private Wealth at Wilmington Trust. B.A. in Political Science from Boston College.
Caitlin Szikszai
Business
Senior Associate, Investment Team. Former Associate at University Growth Fund. BA in International Business, emphasis in Chinese & Asia Pacific, from San Diego State University.
Caroline Keller
Legal & Compliance
Paralegal / Compliance Analyst. Previously worked for the SEC and DOJ in Washington, DC. International Finance at Regent's University London.

Cheryl Campos
Business
Partnerships focus. Previously analyst in investment banking and private debt / equity. Harvard '15 concentration in Economics.

Chris Messina
Business
Head of West Coast Business Development at Republic. Formerly Developer Platform Experience Lead at Uber & Developer Advocate and UX Designer at Google. BFA in Communication Design at Carnegie Mellon University.

Christian Sullivan
Republic Capital
Managing Partner. Angel investor in Yandex, Cruise, and other notable tech and social impact startups. I believe everyone should be able to invest in startups. Access and Inclusion is the new AI.
Chuck Pettid
Business
Head of Republic Retail. GP at RainmakeMe. Worked at Merrill, Pinnacle. Repeat founder. Active investor. Studied business at Nebraska and Fordham.

Clay Fain
Marketing
Sr. Director, Marketing. Previously at NextSeed, LearnVest, and Northwestern Mutual. University of Texas at Austin.

Dan Goh
Business
Investment Team Analyst. Previously Analyst at a VC with a thematic focus on ESG & FoodTech. BS in Finance & Psychology from NYU Stern & CAS.

Darren Sandler
Legal & Compliance
Legal Counsel. Previously head of legal at two fintech/blockchain startups. Kirkland and Ellis, Schulte Roth and Zabel alumni. JD from University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Dmitry Chernyshev
Product
Designer. Previously at Sweatcoin, COUB, Theory&Practice and Trends&Brands. Created Identity and design for web version of Andy Warhol Interview Russia magazine.

Ekaterina Ivanova
Engineering
Front-end web engineer since 2011. Masters of Information Technology in TSU, Russia.

Emily Pollack
Business
Senior Director, Investor Relations. Previously at Otis, Keurig Dr Pepper, YieldStreet and BofA Private Bank. CPA and accounting at Calvin University.

Erik Hanzlick
Republic Crypto
Project Manager, Crypto. Previously product at IBM. Studies economics and international business at UCSD.
Graham Friedman
Republic Crypto
Director, Blockchain. Previously co-founder of TLDR Global and led the camera department at Vayner Media. Passionate for good teams and strong learning curves.

Graham Gnall
Product
Product Manager. 10 years building products and startups: Braavo Capital, Dia&Co, Bluecore, LiveIntent. BA from Wesleyan University.

Gregory Everitt
Engineering
Software engineer. Previously at Elysium Health and CA Technologies. BA in Computer Science from Drew University.

Heather Buffo
Business
Venture Growth & Partnerships Lead. City Year Boston AmeriCorps alum, education strategy at the Boston Foundation. Writer at the American Genius. B.A. Neurobiology from Harvard University.

Ingrid Wong
Business
Senior Campaign Manager. Previously Customer Success at BlueCart. BA in East Asian Studies and Business from Brandeis University.

Jawwad Khan
Republic Capital
Director, Republic Capital. Previously at Compound, CEO at ShareTrade, distressed debt investment professional at Barclays, Waterfall Asset Management, Avenue Capital Group.

Jensen Vu
Business
Deal Room ERA & R/Note. Previously consultant & epidemiologist at Analysis Group and Gov Relations at Minn. Fed. VP at VietChallenge. BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Macalester College. Avid writer and startup geek, always ideating.

John-Paul Yezzo
Legal
Associate Counsel for Republic Retail. Former litigator and equities broker. LL.M. with dual degrees from Erasmus University of Rotterdam and Warsaw School of Economics. J.D. from St. John's University School of Law.

Jovan Vojvodic
Business
CEO of Republic's Broker/Dealer. Former senior power and energy banker at Morgan Stanley with over 20 years M&A and capital-raising experience. Lehigh University, University of Chicago MBA
Julian Jung
Republic Capital
Managing Director at R/Labs and Director of Corp Dev at Republic. Partner Game Theory Group. Founder of Tablelist. Investor of Drizly, Alden & Harlow, Staked, Coinmine, & Lalo.

Katherine Lynch
Business
Republic Communities; Partnerships Director. Built US community partnerships model at Kiva, BS from Washington University in St Louis, MSW from Columbia University

Katie Cooke
Business
HR Manager. Previously recruiting at SingleSprout. Studied International Relations at SUNY Geneseo.

Kendrick Nguyen
Chief Executive Officer
Previously General Counsel at AngelList. Worked at Permal Group and Goodwin Procter. Former Stanford Fellow and securities litigator.

Kevin Xaisanasy
Business
Senior Associate, Finance. Previously, capital markets & private equity at SAB Capital and valuations at Citigroup. B.S. in Finance from SUNY Buffalo.

Kirsten Horning
Business
Director, Deal Room. Formerly Principal at XRC Labs and Nomad Goods. BA, UCSB & MA, Georgetown McDonough School of Business.

Kyle McCormick
Business
Chief of Staff. Former Associate at Endeavor. B.S. in Finance from Boston College.

Lee Morgan
Marketing
Content Writer. Previously co-founder of a management consulting firm and founder of a creative agency. Former stock broker. Studied at Roger Williams and Cornell.

Leo Batali
Republic Capital
Investor Relations. Vast experience in management and hospitality within the entertainment industry, specializing in the music industry. Studied management at the University of Michigan.

Maria Amorosso
Marketing
Email Marketing Associate. Former background in healthcare tech and life sciences. Psychology major and Spanish minor from Colgate University.

Maria Chak
Republic Crypto
Project Manager, Republic Crypto Advisor. Previously, founding member of the strategy team at Onyx by J.P. Morgan, a blockchain business unit for payment applications. B.A. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.

Maria Pope
Business
Venture Programs + Community Manager. Previously, programs at Black Girl Ventures. Texas A&M Alumni, BS in business & economics.

Mario Lattuga
Business & Legal
Director of Diligence and Legal Operations for Republic Retail. Former securities litigator and FinTech startup founder. JD from St. John’s University School of Law, and Masters in Securities and Financial Regulation from Georgetown Law.

Marley Brown
Business
Director, Deal Operations. Previously Public Affairs at Kivvit. Studied Chemistry at Harvard.

Matt Hamilton
Product
VP Product, Retail. Have spent the last 10 years building early stage products at Venmo, Stash, Ense and Novo. Passionate about building technology to help people live better lives. Avid music fan. BS from Columbia University.

Matt Melbourne
Business
Head of Biz Dev & Investment Team – Retail. Previously BD at Global Citizen. B.A. in Government & English from Georgetown University.

Maxwell Rich
Legal & Compliance
Chief Compliance Officer & Deputy General Counsel. Regulatory advisor to CoinList. Previously at Liberty Mutual and the Clearing House. JD from Boston University, BA in Economics and Political Science from Drew University.

Mario Martins
Legal & Compliance
Retail CCO. Spent 13 years at FINRA. JD from Quinnipiac University School of Law, BA from Rutgers

Maya Aloy
Republic Crypto
Project Manager, Republic Crypto. Previous experience working with Security Token Offerings and consulting management services in Latin America and government entities. B.A. in Communications from PUCRS.

Mikaela Giani
Business
Senior Associate, Investment Team. Previously Sales & Marketing Director at Level Four Advisory Services. BA in International Political Economy from University of Texas at Dallas.

Noah Thorp
Republic Crypto
Tokenization lead. Blockchain panelist. Founder at CoMakery. Past VP Engineering at NASDAQ Private Market & SharesPost. Co-founder at Citizen Code. 20k+ hrs dev.

Paul Mishin
Product
Product manager. 5 years building startups and managing products, including MeetingPulse, Atlas, Luuk, Verso, Dogsy, Adstop. BA in Economics from MSU.

Patrick Steed
Business
Investment Team Analyst. Previously, Technology Investment Banking at Jefferies. B.S in Finance and Accounting from Georgetown University.

Perri Gould
Business
Senior Director, Platform Infrastructure. Previously at 92nd Street Y. Middle Eastern Studies at Brown University.
Peter Green
Chief Creative Officer; SVP
Previously Founder of Mine, MeetingPulse, Volga Verdi. Worked at Leo Burnett. Masters of management from HSE Moscow.
Pialy Aditya
Chief Strategy Officer
Chief Strategy Officer. Angel investor. Previously GM @ShopYourWay, co-founder and President @Mintbox. MBA from Harvard. Finance from New York University.

Polly Makevnina
Engineering
Software engineer. Previously freelancer, X Enterprises, Smart People LLC. Masters of Computer Applications, Omsk.

Ray Mayo
Republic Capital
Republic Capital. Previously, Debt Capital Markets at JPMorgan. Studied Finance and Accounting at Syracuse University.

Raymond Yu
Republic Crypto
Token Offering Marketing Manager. Previously at Moxtra, Informatica, and Qualcomm. BA in International Business from UC San Diego
Richard Saulon
Business
Accounting Manager at Republic. Previously worked in Forensic Accounting / Non-Profit Finance. BS from Hunter College.
Rohan Suwarna
Business
Senior Associate, Investment Team. Previously, Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank. B.S. in Finance and Analytics from Boston College.

Ryan McNey
Republic Crypto
Technical Project Manager, Republic Crypto. Previously, Vice President at Mobomo and Technology Consultant at Accenture. B.S. in Business Management, West Virginia University.

Samuel Kane
Republic Capital
Investment Relations / Operations Associate. Previously in Transaction Opinions at Houlihan Lokey. Studied finance and accounting at NYU Stern.

Sergey Martynov
Engineering
Quality Advocate at Republic. Previously QA Engineer at Align Technology and Yandex. Engineer’s degree from Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics.

Shrina Kurani
Business
VP, Business. Previously engineering for NASA, investing at Better Ventures, business at Sutro, founder at FoodNest, negotiator at UN. MS in Sustainability, BS in Mechanical Engineering. Classical Dancer & Saxophonist.

Sylvia Jiang
Business
Recruiter. Previously at Better helping to scale the sales/operations and real estate teams. Master of Science in Human Resource Management and Development from NYU School of Professional Studies.

Szandra Fuzesi Ford
Business
Operating Partner. 18+ yrs of experience in Capital Markets & Business Operations at UBS, Amaranth, Capgemini and others. Co-founded Climb Capital. UofM BBA, NYU MBA.

TaeMi Lee
Business
VP, Finance. CFO for NextSeed, previously Director of Strategy & Finance at Cheniere. Studied Economics at UT at Austin and received an MBA from UH Bauer School of Business. Board advisor and advocate for animal-related organizations.

Valentin Gavrilov
Engineering
QA engineer, Mobile Team. Previously at ARGO. Specialist Degree from RSUCE.
Walter Wang
Legal & Compliance
Walter is a Compliance Manager at Republic. He previously worked as a financial and risk analyst at JPMorgan Chase, MUFG, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Apfiny and KPMG. He holds a BA in Economics from Rutgers University.

Youngro Lee
Chief Operating Officer
Founder/CEO Nextseed. Previously, private funds attorney at Cleary Gottlieb and Kirkland Ellis. BS, JD/LLM from Cornell.
Zhen Cao
Business
Partner - Asia. Founding Partner at venture and crypto arm of JD Capital, the only publicly traded PE fund in China. Previously at HTC Vive, China Central Television. MA from New York University.

Justin Bailey
Advisor
Founder of Fig, studio advisor and game investor, previously COO and Board Member at Double Fine Productions, Corporate Development at PWE and Namco Bandai. Studied at TCU, BA in Finance, BS minor in Computer Science.

Katherine Krug
Advisor
Founder of BetterBack, Everest, Fundrah. First solo woman to break $1M on Kickstarter.

Kenneth Ballenegger
Advisor
Angel in 40+ startups, Partner at Oyster Ventures. Previously, co-founder and manager of Republic Crypto, engineering at AngelList, founder at FreshPay, founding architect at Chartboost, and product at Tapulous (acq. by Disney)

Naval Ravikant
Advisor
Chairman and Founder at AngelList. Founder at Venture Hacks, Vast and Epinions. Invested in Twitter, Heyzap, Uber.

Raymond Yu
Republic Crypto
Token Offering Marketing Manager. Previously at Moxtra, Informatica, and Qualcomm. BA in International Business from UC San Diego

Nisa Amoils
Advisor
Previously VC at Scout Ventures and family office. Securities lawyer. Boards Wharton Entrepreneurship, Institute Blockchain Innovation, other companies. Contributor for Forbes and Blockchain Magazine. UMich Business and Penn Law.

Paul Menchov
Advisor
Head of CoinList Capital. CTO and Co-Founder at CoinList. Previously, CTO at Republic and Head of Fundraising Infrastructure at AngelList. Worked at Zynga. Studied at Cornell University.

Peter Diamandis
Advisor
Engineer, physician, best-selling author and entrepreneur. Founder of XPRIZE, co-founder of Singularity University, Human Longevity Inc., Celularity.

Shaherose Charania
Advisor
Co-Founder of Women 2.0, Founder Labs. Board of Directors at Good World Solutions.

Shiza Shahid
Advisor
Founder of NOW Ventures and Malala Fund. Investor and social activist. Studied at Stanford University.

Todd Ruppert
Advisor
Todd has 40 years of experience in the financial services industry. Previously CEO and President of T. Rowe Price Global Investment Services. Board member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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