Mo Shaikh
Mo Shaikh — Builder, Investor and Policy Strategist Shaping the Future of Crypto and Finance
Co‑founder & former CEO of Aptos Labs | Founder of Meridio | Now investing in and advising founders building crypto into products people use
What I Do:
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Invest & advise: Backing founders from pre-seed–Series A across crypto-native apps and infra.
What I Do:
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Policy & boards: Serving in select governance roles with a focus on pragmatic market‑structure.
Impact:
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Co‑founded Aptos Labs and grew the protocol from an idea to a top-10 Layer 1 blockchain with a $20 billion valuation and more than 200 projects building on it.; raised nearly $500bn from top firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Multicoin Capital, Haun Ventures, Apollo Global Management; forged partnerships with Microsoft, Google Cloud, NBCUniversal, and global asset managers including Blackrock, and Franklin Templeton; expanded Japan via HashPalette acquisition.
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Meridio: Founded Meridio, an early real‑estate tokenization platform on Ethereum; executed first fractional property deals in Brooklyn, New York.
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Public service: Appointed to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Digital Assets Subcommittee (GMAC).