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Description: This second episode in our final category of fund types, what we are calling peripheral funds, we interview Ian Lee, the co-founder of Syndicate a decentralized investing protocol and social network, the main purpose of this structure is to make investing more accessible to the masses mainly through cost reduction and infrastructure enablement.
In 2021 Syndicate raised $20million let by A16z, other investors included Snoop Dog and Ashton Kutcher. Prior to Syndicate, Ian had an illustrious career across a range of different sectors and roles from automotive to heading up the Crypto division at Citi Bank. It is clear from this episode that Ian is someone that can drive forward new and innovative initiatives and shape them into brilliant success stories, Ian gives a great rendition of some of the learnings he took away from raising multiple different fund types, creating collaborative work structures within large corporations and forming early teams.