Felix Machart
Felix is Research Partner at Greenfield. He joined the firm on day one as Head of Research.
Felix has led many of Greenfield’s research efforts, most notably the paper on the state of blockchain governance. Before joining Greenfield, he was an independent researcher in the space and investment manager at Axel Springer Plug & Play.
Felix holds a double degree, Master of Science from WU Wien and Master of International Business from Queen’s University.
Publications from Felix
- _Research
Privacy is under attack. The most successful corporations of our time have built their entire business model on surveillance capitalism. The blockchain is – in its most fundamental form as a public ledger of all transactions – a privacy hell. In this multi-disciplinary essay, we summarise where Greenfield stands on this issue and explore how crypto-native solutions can address the tension between public interest and the personal need for privacy.
- _Investments
We are excited to share that we are participating in the recent $100M round in Gnosis Safe, which is led by 1kx with further participation by Tiger Global, A&T Capital, Blockchain Capital, Digital Currency Group, Rockaway Blockchain Fund, ParaFi, Lightspeed, Polymorphic Capital, Superscrypt and 50 other strategic partners and industry experts.
- _Investments
We are excited to share that we led Q’s recent $12m funding round, which has recently launched their mainnet. Q is building a unique L1 protocol with a clear governance process, security that is based on several layers of diverse node operators and its constitution as well as legal enforceability and dispute resolution for applications building on top.
- _Investments
We are excited to be backing goodcarbon in their recent €5M+ funding round led by Planet A ventures who are the first European fund with their own scientific team to assess the environmental and climate impact of an innovation, with further participation by 468 Capital as well as a group of strategic angels.