# John Edge

> John Edge is a startup investor at MIT Media Lab (New York). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [MIT Media Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mit-media-lab)
- Location: New York, United States
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnedge
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/idjohne
- Website: http://www.johnedge.me

John Edge is an entrepreneur specializing in systems design, operating at the forefront of technology driven transformation in financial services over the last two decades.John is a recognized for establishing and implementing thematic change, include the algorithm-driven trading businesses for the global markets divisions of Lehman Brothersand then JP Morgan. John went on to cofound Redkite, a FinTech company which designed and deployed the first real-time trade surveillance system for global markets. Then latterly applying digital identity and Blockchain to digital inclusion systems in financial services and the humanitarian sector.John is currently focused on systems change through the design and implementation of new organizations and tools focused on transforming the value and use of digital identity across markets and geographies.John is the cofounder and chairman emeritus of the Whitechapel Think Tank, a Public-Private forum for the UK Government, Bank of England, Financial Conduct Authority and industry to explore the potential for Distributed Ledger Technologies.John is the co-founder and chairman of ID2020, a Public-Private Partnership designed to address the market failures that have led to the vulnerable, especially women and children, being unable to receive protection under international and local law through lack of recognized identity.

## About MIT Media Lab

VC Fund · Cambridge, United States

Actively promoting a unique, antidisciplinary culture, the MIT Media Lab goes beyond known boundaries and disciplines, encouraging the most unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas. It creates disruptive technologies that happen at the edges, pioneering such areas as wearable computing, tangible interfaces, andaffective computing.Today, faculty members, research staff, and students at the Lab work in more than 25 research groups on more than 350 projects that range from digital approaches for treating neurological disorders, to a stackable, electric car for sustainable cities, to advanced imaging technologies that can “see around a corner.”The Lab is committed to looking beyond the obvious to ask the questions not yet asked–questions whose answers could radically improve the way people live, learn, express themselves, work, and play.

5 contacts available at MIT Media Lab.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Hanft | Member of the Board of Advisors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-hanft |
| Andrew Lippman | Sr Scientist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-lippman |
| Barak Berkowitz | Director of Operations and Strategy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barak-berkowitz |
| John Edge | Fellow, Connection Science | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-edge |
| Agnis Stibe | Social Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agnis-stibe |

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