Lex Sokolin
Managing Partner & Co-Founder @ Generative Ventures
London, United Kingdom
Lex Sokolin is a seed investor at Generative Ventures in London focused on Internet and Blockchain. Lex is a builder and investor working on the next generation of socio-economics and financial services. He is the Managing Partner and co-Founder of Generative Ventures, an engaged venture capital fund investing in the Machine Economy powered by Fintech, accelerated by AI, and settled on Web3.Previously, Lex held the roles of Chief Economist,Chief Marketing Officer, and Global Fintech Co-Head at Consensys, a leading Web3 blockchain software company, where he focused on protocol cryptoeconomics, digital assets, public and private blockchains, decentralized finance, and DAOs. Prior, he was the Global Director of Fintech Strategy at Autonomous Research, an equity research firm serving institutional investors, where he covered artificial intelligence, blockchain, neobanks, digital lenders, roboadvisors, payments, insurtech, and mixed reality. Before Autonomous, Lex was Chief Operating Officer at AdvisorEngine, a digital wealthtech platform, and CEO of NestEgg Wealth, a roboadvisor that partnered with financial advisors. Lex started his career in investment management and banking at Barclays, Lehman Brothers, and Deutsche Bank. Lex has contributed thought leadership to the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Bloomberg, FT, Reuters, Coindesk, American Banker, ThinkAdvisor, Investment News, among others. His industry newsletter, the Fintech Blueprint, reaches over 180,000 subscribers. Lex earned a JD/MBA from Columbia University and a B.A. in Economics and Law from Amherst College.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
Last updated:
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Industries Lex Sokolin invests in
Stages Lex Sokolin invests in
Countries Lex Sokolin invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 3 (33%)
- Blockchain 3 (33%)
- Information Technology 3 (33%)
- Software 2 (22%)
- Web3 1 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (56%)
- Series A 2 (22%)
- Funding Round 2 (22%)
Country
- United States 4 (44%)
- Austria 1 (11%)
- Singapore 1 (11%)
Investments
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| GaiaNet is a pioneer in decentralized AI technology, committed to transforming the IT industry through user privacy, transparency, and control. The cutting-edge open network infrastructure empowers users by ensuring privacy and censorship resistance in daily AI operations through a dynamic network of peer-to-peer edge nodes. | $10M / Series A / Jul 22, 2025 | ||
| Glider is a platform that eliminates technical barriers while providing sophisticated tools that allow anyone to implement their market perspectives without getting caught in operational complexity. | $4M / Seed / Apr 16, 2025 | ||
| Teneo Protocol is a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) initiative. | $3M / Seed / Feb 13, 2025 | ||
| GaiaNet is a pioneer in decentralized AI technology, committed to transforming the IT industry through user privacy, transparency, and control. The cutting-edge open network infrastructure empowers users by ensuring privacy and censorship resistance in daily AI operations through a dynamic network of peer-to-peer edge nodes. | $10M / Seed / May 28, 2024 | ||
| peaq gives robots and machines everything they need to do business, on every chain. peaqOS enables machines — robots, vehicles, devices, AI agents — to show up on any chain as liquid assets with identities, wallets, reputation, and the ability to provide services, trade, and prove what they did. peaq is the economic system for a human-centricMachine Economy where autonomous machines are a new asset class and every human can have a stake. It is home to 60+ applications in 20+ industries and to the millions of machines that run on them. | $15M / Series A / Mar 27, 2024 | ||
| Rise is an innovative payroll and compliance provider based in New York. Rise is a Web3-enabled platform helping businesses onboard, manage and pay local/international contractors while ensuring full compliance and alleviating burdensome tax processes. | $3.8M / Seed / Apr 24, 2023 | ||
| Rise is an innovative payroll and compliance provider based in New York. Rise is a Web3-enabled platform helping businesses onboard, manage and pay local/international contractors while ensuring full compliance and alleviating burdensome tax processes. | Apr 24, 2023 | ||
| Lobus is aiming to commoditize blockchain tech with an asset management platform that they hope can bring creator-friendly mechanisms from NFT marketplaces like SuperRare to the physical art world as well, allowing art owners to maintain partial ownership of the works they sell so that they can benefit from secondary transactions down the line. | $6M / Seed / Apr 29, 2021 | ||
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About Generative Ventures
Generative Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in AI machine economies on decentralized financial networks.
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