Modular by Design. Driven by Experience. Our corporate culture is about innovation. Etheralabs is New York City based venture lab and ecosystem that invests in, builds, and deploys disruptive technologies across the Blockchain landscape.
Etheralabs fast-tracks ideas into solutions that help high-growth companies with a focus on capital appreciation and scale via early stage identification and accelerated resource deployment. Our acceleration model lays the foundation for taking promising IP from both concept to company and from revenue to profitability, culminating in a fully functioning portfolio venture that is ready to attract follow-on funding, an acquisition partner, or to operate as a standalone company. We follow an intensive model, premised on a fundamentally different approach to IP development.
We believe in investing in organic and sustainable growth with the highest levels of innovation, compliance and trust. We are not just another application but an ecosystem of people, networks and code that do not see a border around what we are doing. Our ecosystem allows us conceive, develop and finance partnerships throughout the blockchain world and beyond, and to connect the blockchain community, investors and venture capital to relevant content, intelligence and direct investment opportunities in a highly personal way.
We have established a framework of best practices by which our management and board ensure accountability and transparency across all our company’s activities. Our governance framework serves to create auditability across our entire portfolio of holdings with full compliance oversight across each activity our company is involved in.
Since our inception and the beginning of our development, we are in a constant state of improvement to our core development platform. Our aim is to deliver high performance, scalability and security across our entire ecosystem. We are proficient across multiple development tools and protocols including; Github, IPFS, Ethereum, Python, Node.JS, PHP, HTML5, NEO, EOS, Framework7, MongoDB, Linux, Hyperledger, Ripple, Meteor and Steller. We put blockchain developers and strategists by your side to help transform you vision and unlock new value. Our teams work end to end to architect stable and secure blockchain solutions capable of delivering bottom line value.
We are building a whole new generation of compliance technology and financial products engineered to drive next generation capital market environments. Our reach allows direct node to node connectivity via a secure and stable architecture.
Our security testing identifies weak cryptography and logic flaws that drive insights on how to fix vulnerabilities and drive safer environments. Tap into our expertise in developing guidelines and procedures that proactively protect your projects in order to ward off malicious activities and unwanted incidents.
Bryan Feinberg
CEO
Bryan Feinberg is the CEO and Founder of Etheralabs, a NYC-based Blockchain Advisory and Venture Accelerator. Bryan brings nearly two decades of serial technology & media focus and solid track record of both identifying and participating across the startup universe. Bryan is a Licensed Investment Banker, holding series 7, 63 & 79 FINRA licenses.
Bryan is both deeply passionate and active across both the blockchain and crypto landscape and has been involved in early stage venture capital for the past 15 years. With strong ties and an extensive network, Bryan's added value is measured in his hands-on approach to deal positioning, strategic modeling, market analysis & enabling technologies in any data transaction. A serial entrepreneur, Bryan’s key focus areas encompass both investment banking and early stage company development and drives his expertise across multiple areas including Banking & Regulatory Compliance, Syndication, Intelligence, Wallet Security, Search, Machine Learning and Big Data.
Bryan has completed over $200M in financial transactions including taking a startup from scratch to over $130M in revenues with an integral balance sheet component to public listing on the TASE in 2007. Bryan is also CEO and Founder of Zephyr Financial Technologies and is on the Advisory Board of multiple emerging blockchain companies.
Aditya Walia
COO
Aditya is the COO and Co-founder of Etheralabs. He is a Corporate/Taxation lawyer and has worked with big four consulting firms along with advising several Fortune 500 companies on their technology compliance. Aditya is actively involved in the Fintech space and has worked extensively in designing innovative mechanisms for investor engagements and capital raising.
Aditya has founded ventures in multiple sectors including fintech, food&beverage and skilll development which gives him a strong handle on operations, team building, and business development. He is an active member of several industrial and investment communities in India.
Scot Apathy
CTO
Scot is the CTO and Co-founder of Etheralabs. He has 25 years of experience in the software development industry, leading development projects in the Internet and video game space for fortune 500 companies such as Universal Music, CBS Radio and Electronic Arts. Scot's Silicon-Valley based development firm was responsible for developing the Dipdive social platform for Universal Music/Black Eyed Peas and the launch of the acclaimed ‘Yes We Can’ video in 2008 for the Barack Obama campaign. As a passionate advocate for emerging technology, Scot has been active in the Blockchain industry since 2016, and is responsible for overseeing the development of Etheralabs’ internal and outward facing software platforms.
Scot has a long history of working to shape the Internet strategy and development for leading brands including Universal Music, Specialized Bicycles, Electronic Arts, CBS Radio and numerous start-ups funded by GoldmanSachs, Kleiner Perkins, Hummer Windblad, PacRim, Ridgewood Capital, and Advance Ventures. His Internet innovation and ground-breaking websites have been featured in magazines such as Wired, New Media Magazine, AV/Video Multimedia Producer, MicroPublishing Times and the Silicon Valley-San Jose Business Journal.
Abhishek Gupta
Chief Development Officer
Abhishek is the CDO at Etheralabs. He leads the development efforts for Etheralabs, and as a software development engineer with expertise in building products using emerging technologies, Abhishek is responsible for the ongoing advancement of Etheralabs' multiple Big Data and Machine Learning development projects. Abhishek likes rock climbing and also reads ancient books.
Ajay Chandhok
Chief Security Officer
Ajay is the CEO and Founder of StratusCyber.com. With 10+ years of Cyber Security and Software Development Experience, Ajay leads our focus on Security Assessment/Testing and Mitigation and Secure Development. Ajay is a dedicated and highly passionate Blockchain Professional with technical security experience in Network Traffic/Malware Analysis, Behavioral Security Analytic Development, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Analysis, and Security Assessments.
Ajay combines traditional security expertise with blockchain knowledge to provide secure smart contract development/auditing as well as traditional security services tailored to Blockchain technologies and companies.
ERIC BERNSTEIN
CRO
Eric is the CRO of Etheralabs.
He has managed aggressive growth throughout his 35 years career in Sales and Marketing and Management. Throughout his career he has developed distribution and commercial partnerships in North America and in over 50 countries around the globe, focused on solution sales of research data, SaaS solutions, learning solutions, risk mitigation (specifically Know- Your-Customer and Enhanced Due Diligence), and Anti-Money Laundering compliance. He has an extensive background in Sales Management, logistics and international customer service, Eric has managed P&L responsibilities ranging from $500K to $55M. He has recruiting and developing high-calibre sales and marketing teams for a number of businesses resulting in triple-digit growth and brand development in new markets covering throughout the world.
MOSHE JOSHUA
Moshe Joshua provides Etheralabs with hands on hardcore Blockchain Development. As Chief Product Officer for (https://blackmoonplatform.com/)Blackmoon Crypto, Moshe is involved with creating the de-facto standards for many of the industries he participates in.
Moshe leverages his unique background and skill sets in Blockchain systems and his experience as a Wall Street operator to support his vision to bridge the crypto universe with the traditional investment market. His passion lies in the development of a seamless way to tokenize real world investment funds within a unified tool that creates liquidity and the advantages of both fiat and crypto worlds to investors.
As a professional responsible for all technology architecture, design and development and entire project lifecycles, Moshe has consulted for many companies in the financial arena including new ventures, hedge-funds, large international banks, and specialized niche trading firms. Moshe has developed high frequency arbitrage systems to trade cross-border securities markets in the US, Brazil, India, Dubai, and Singapore.
Moshe was the Head of Technology for MF Global for over 5 years, a publicly traded and international brokerage firm with over 5,000 employees. He was Fund Manager for a VIX-based private ETF at Del Mar, a multi-strategy hedge-fund, as well as Lead Developer/Architect for Gargoyle, a hedge fund implementing options trading strategies. A serial entrepreneur, he co-founded www.esignatureguarantee.com, and was also the lead developer for www.surkus.com. Most recently, he worked with Ripple to create Ripple Stream, Ripple's underlying crypto-streaming market-data and FIX-trading-engine product.
JON NAJARIAN
Jon Najarian is an options trader, television market analyst, CNBC television personality and former professional football player. He is a regular contributor to CNBC's show Fast Money and has been a member of the Chicago Board of Trade since 1982. He is the founder of TradeMonster as well as Mercury Trading which he sold to Citadel.
Jon brings a unique perspective to the capital market side of crypto and is currently producing and hosting a Prime Time Television series dedicated to the bringing both crypto awareness, intelligence and the culture driving it to the masses. Jon is actively involved in the Etheralabs ecosystem as an advisor, mentor and participant across the company's various business segments.
RICHARD KASTELEIN
Richard is an award-winning publisher, innovation executive and entrepreneur. He is the founder and publisher of Blockchain News and is a partner at ICO Services Collective CryptoAsset Design Group ($500m+ in ICOs). He sits on the advisory boards of some two dozen Blockchain startups and has written over 1500 articles on Blockchain technology and startups. Richard has also published pioneering articles on ICOs in Harvard Business Review and Venturebeat.
STEVEN HATZAKIS
Steven is a Financial Technology (FinTech) and Financial Services (FinServ) industry researcher and consultant with nearly 20 years experience. He contributes to a number of self-regulatory efforts in the crypto industry, is an active crypto investor, and is a director of BCA Ventures Inc.
In addition to his role as the Global Director of Research, Forex & Crypto at ForexBrokers.com, Steven has authored over 1000 industry news articles and has published research for Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs), first writing about cryptocurrency market inefficiencies in 2013. Steven is a CFTC-registered Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) and holds a Series 3 NFA License.
ROBERT SERENY
With over a decade of experience working for global corporations of the highest caliber, Mr. Sereny brings a focused and refined approach to driving every phase of a project to its conclusion as a Transactional Advisor. His team sources private investment opportunities globally, on behalf of Sovereign Wealth Funds, Royal Families and Multi-Nationals.
He has worked on the UBS Paine Webber's Interest Derivatives Trading desk as well as and Citibank/Traveler's Commercial Insurance division. Robert has studied Computer Hardware Engineer to the Masters level at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as well as Networking and Economics as a minor. Robert is currently the COO of First Look Strategic Investments, forging new process and structure within the Crypto OTC Large Block environment.
JOSEPH DANIELS
Joseph Daniels is Co-Chair of the firm’s Venture Capital & Emerging Growth Companies practice. He represents startup to publicly-held technology, life science and consumer companies, venture capital and private equity funds and investment banks in a wide range of seed and venture financings, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and other public offerings. He regularly advises a broad range of startups, venturebacked companies and VC funds, and has led hundreds of venture and strategic financing transactions.
Mr. Daniels has helped companies and private equity firms handle dozens of merger, acquisition and disposition transactions. Additionally, he has represented issuers and underwriters in scores of IPOs and follow-on public offerings involving companies in the technology, life sciences and consumer sectors, including leading investment banks such as Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley and Oppenheimer. Mr. Daniels also serves as outside general counsel for numerous companies, assisting them with everything from day-to-day business transactions to multinational strategic alliance transactions ranging from technology and distribution partnerships to joint ventures.
He focuses on representing clients involved in high-growth sectors, and has experience with a broad range of industries, including adtech, agile aerospace, artificial intelligence, biotech, blockchain, cleantech, consumer, cryptocurrency, digital media, ecommerce, energy, IOT, fintech/ financial services, life sciences, mobile, semiconductor, software and telecommunications.
MICHAEL GORD
Michael Gord is the executive director of the Blockchain Education Network, a robust global network of blockchain enthusiasts, the founder and CEO of MLG Blockchain, an enterprise blockchain and ICO consulting and development firm, and the Chief Strategy Officer of Lucid Exchange, a next generation blockchain platform to trade future securities.
Michael is also the founder and CEO of Bitcoin Canada, sits on the board of directors of the Blockchain Association of Canada, is an advisor and investor into Distributed ID and writes for Bitcoin Magazine in addition to several other prevalent fintech publications. Michael is an active pioneer in the blockchain industry and has organized global annual events which introduce thousands of people around the world each year to their first bits and to the disruptive potential of blockchain technology. Some of these include the Bitcoin Airdrop, Blockchain Education Month,Blockchain Madness, Blockchain Gauntlet, BitCrawls, etc. Michael is also regularly featured as a speaker at fintech industry events and conferences around the world.
DAVID CHIDEKEL
David Chidekel, a partner in M&R’s New York office, is an acclaimed media and entertainment lawyer. An array of clients in the music, film, television, fashion, book publishing, sports, electronic media and gaming, and interactive entertainment industries seek his advice and counsel with respect to commercial, corporate and intellectual property transactions. He has acted as an advisor and consultant to various start-up digital media and technology companies, David blockchain media centric focus is centered around enabling greater transparency between content distributors, creators, and their stakeholders.
MICHAEL NOEL
Michael is the CoFounder and CEO of Blockchain Consultants and the host of Blockchain. He has numerous connections to Private Equity groups and Angel Investor Foundations and is on numerous Advisory Boards such as Digi Build, Bit Care, Store coin, and Swift Harvest. Michael is a Cryptonite Ventures Founding Member and was Certified by the EC-Council as a Certified Blockchain Professional in 2018. Michael is the founder of a private mining operation which started mining in 2011 which is still in operation today. Michael lends his expertise to initiatives across the industry in both the private and public sectors.
Digits
Digits allows any credit or debit card in the world to become an instant cryptocurrency card. This technology will increase cryptocurrency liquidity and eliminate transaction costs. Additionally, it will stabilize multiple cryptocurrency networks. Digits achieves this without any modification or agreements with the existing card networks, processors or merchants’ settlement process.
Loci
Loci uses blockchain technology to help address these issues with its platform for intellectual property (IP) discovery and mining. It has an already established product with InnVenn, a DIY patent research tool that uses Venn Diagrams to visuall y show relationships to help discover new areas of innovation. Loci also, and perhaps most importantly, has created a marketplace where people can buy and sell IP. Currently it is functioning like the eBay of IP.
CrayPay
CrayPay is a mobile platform with over 50,000 national brand locations across the United States, it’s a crypto token, CrayCoin, will allow users to earn and buy with cryptocurrency at all of them.
Bethereum
Blockchain-powered betting and unique social elements deliver the most engaging and secure betting platform on the market. The Bethereum solution leverages blockchain technology to ensure the safest and most transparent betting experience. There is no middleman involved: Players create the bets, set the rules, and provide the liquidity for fulfilling payouts
WandX
Wandx protocol enables seamless creation and trade of any ERC20 Token or ERC20 Token baskets.WandX application on the ethereum main network enables Decentralised Trade of ERC20 token products.
Priatek
Priatek designs and manages custom prize promotions for local and national businesses under its in2win brand. in2win promotions engage consumers through a network of interactive kiosks located in high-traffic locations as well as the in2win mobile app.
Augmate
Augmate Connect, uses a combination approach to device management and the facilitation of interactions and transactions between devices. The platform uses distributed technology like the IOTA Tangle as well as centralized portal management using advanced encryption, heuristic analysis and machine learning for monitoring and predictive maintenance.
Fluzcoin
Fluzcoin in a stable coin protocol built to handle retail transactions in the crypto world and is simultaneously solving the four primary issues associated with cryptocurrencies; transaction speed, transaction cost, KYC compliance and excess volatility.
Openport
OpenPort is Part of the Blockchain Ecosystem Creating a New Era in Emerging Markets Enterprise Transportation and Logistics
Ice Rock Mining
First blockchain powered engagement and monetization for publishers and brands. 1World's Global Platform consists of highly engaging tools, content, and powerful analytics to boost performance and revenue.
Vaultbank
The Vaultbank Platform plans to tokenize securities like Mutual Funds, and will be a securities compliant platform that performs KYC, AML, FATCA and Accreditation. Users will be able to buy and sell security tokens and top utility tokens at industry competitive rates
Fastbase
Fastbase is building a predictive analytics and machine learning platform, which allows marketers to set both explicit and implicit data criteria, automate lead identification, accelerating the sales and marketing process through ranking data on demand.
Travel Cash
TravelCash is the world's first cryptocurrency to trade exclusively on the Ascension platform and does not rely on blockchain technology or ERC-20. Ascension is scalable and utilizes a voucher-based cryptocurrency.
1World
First blockchain powered engagement and monetization for publishers and brands. 1World's Global Platform consists of highly engaging tools, content, and powerful analytics to boost performance and revenue.
BitMinutes
BitMinutes are “Universal” prepaid minutes usable by over 4 billion cellphones on 300 carrier networks in over 100 countries. It’s primary focus is to provide key financial services for over 2 billion underbanked consumers globally.
Kinesis
Kinesis is a yield-bearing digital currency based on 1:1 allocated physical gold and silver. The vision for Kinesis is to deliver an evolutionary step beyond any monetary and banking system available today.
MLG Blockchain
MLG Blockchain is a global consulting and development firm that builds solutions using blockchains and smart contract technology. Headquartered in Toronto and New York City with a decentralized team that provides end-to-end solutions for startups, enterprise and government clients. MLG is a blockchain agnostic firm with expertise that covers all aspects of the ecosystem.
MBAEX
MBAex is Southeast-Asia’s biggest blockchain assets trading platform with a full-fledged forex brokerage system and standardized banking system. That entails us the capacity of implementing the concept of forex brokerage with blockchain assets trading; a powerful combination that would foresee a soar in transaction and trading volumes.
StratusCyber
StratusCyber is a full-service Cyber Security company that serves federal and state/local governments as well as several Private Sector clients. Their experienced team leverages over 25 years of combined Cyber Security experience across all topics working with the Department of Defense, Defense Contractors, and throughout the federal spaces. They are the leader in Blockchain Security.
SCX
SCX (Swiss Crypto Exchange) is the first regulated Swiss exchange platform for blockchain products and crypto currencies. They offer the trading of Bitcoin, Ether and selected payment and utility tokens. Their platform is SRO/VQF regulated and aims to provide safe, high quality and transparent access to blockchain-based products in a rapidly growing transaction market. SCX contributes to standardization, legitimacy and transparency in accordance with Swiss quality and safety criteria.
Blackmoon Crypto
Blackmoon is part of the Blackmoon Financial Group, a group of financial technology companies founded in 2014. The Blackmoon team has extensive experience in investment management, as well as developing automated investment interfaces and asset management tools.
Byzanti.ne
Byzanti’s Blockchain and DLT subject matter expertise, tightly coupled with an Application Lifecycle Management process will dramatically reduce the cost, complexity, and time to value. They enable businesses of any size to engage one vendor for Scoping, Software Development, Support, and Maintenance, dramatically reducing friction and ensuring client satisfaction.
Plato is a Blockchain-centric search and intelligence engine that allows users to gain secure access to deep, real-time information and data across the blockchain space.
At the core of Plato is a very powerful and dynamic hashtagging application that enables real-time data assessment and has implications in the way web content is access and validated through consensus. Our platform improves the efficiency of identifying and tracking best of class innovation across the sector. We provide a 360 degree view of the blockchain world through a highly intuitive and content rich user experience.
Our analytics and reporting provide us insights into the motivations that drive user engagement. We seamlessly track our content across all social media networks while our reporting delivers granular insights that drive actionable events.