Number of Portfolio Companies 7
Number of Exits 
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  • Investor Type  Individual/Angel
  • Investor Stage  Seed
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William Mougayar is a Toronto-based investor, researcher, blogger, and best-selling author of The Business Blockchain (Wiley, 2016). He is a direct participant in the crypto-technology market, working alongside startups, entrepreneurs, pioneers, leaders, innovators, creators, enterprise executives and practitioners.

William is the general

partner at Virtual Capital Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund, and currently on the Board of Directors of OB1, the OpenBazaar open source protocol that is pioneering decentralized peer-to-peer commerce, a Board Advisor to the Ethereum Foundation, a member of OMERS Ventures Board of Advisors, an Advisory Board member to the Coin Center and Bloq. He blogs regularly about the present and future of blockchains at Startup Management.

Previously, he held senior positions at Hewlett-Packard, Cognizant and Aberdeen Group, and he founded 3 startups, CYBERManagement, Eqentia, and Engagio.

Number of Investments 10
William Mougayar has made 10 investments. Their latest investment was Venture Round - Decrypt on Apr 1, 2022, when Decrypt raised
$10M
.
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Apr 1, 2022
Decrypt
Venture Round - Decrypt
$10M
Oct 28, 2020
Roll
Seed Round - Roll
$1M
Sep 12, 2019
Dapper Labs
Series B - Dapper Labs
$11.2M
Oct 19, 2018
Dapper Labs
Series A - Dapper Labs
$15M
Mar 20, 2018
Dapper Labs
Series A - Dapper Labs
$12.9M
Mar 13, 2018
OB1
Series A - OB1
$5M
Jun 1, 2016
Mediachain
No
Seed Round - Mediachain
$1.5M
Jun 11, 2015
OpenBazaar
Seed Round - OpenBazaar
$1M
Apr 24, 2015
OB1
Seed Round - OB1
$1M
Dec 16, 2014
Mattermark
Series A - Mattermark
$6.5M
Number of Exits 
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William Mougayar has exits. Their most notable exits are Mediachain and Mattermark.
  • Mediachain Mediachain automatically connects media to its creator and information about it.
  • Mattermark Mattermark is a data platform for venture capital companies to quantify signals of growing and potentially lucrative start-ups.
Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 1
William Mougayar is the Founder at Startup Management. Additionally, William Mougayar has had 1 past job as the Founder & CEO at Eqentia.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Eqentia
Founder & CEOAug 20, 20082012
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 2
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 1
William Mougayar holds 2 board and advisor roles as ICO Advisor at Tierion and Advisor at Bloq.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Unified Computer Intelligence Corporation
AdvisorJan 1, 2014Dec 31, 2015
Number of Events 4
William Mougayar has participated in 4 events. They most recently attended, or will attend, CryptoChicks 2019 on May 31, 2019.
Number of News Articles 129
Funding RoundApr 1, 2022
Decrypt raised $10,000,000 / Series Unknown from Alex Bamberger and 23 other investors
Funding RoundOct 28, 2020
Roll raised $1,000,000 / Seed from Balaji Srinivasan and 6 other investors
NewsOct 22, 2020
NewsSep 2, 2020