Jalak Jobanputra is the Founder and Managing Partner of Future\Perfect Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund investing in decentralized technologies with a focus on crypto assets and blockchain technology. FPV, now investing out of Fund III, has invested in over 60 companies across core web3 infrastructure and early applications, with a portfolio that spans five continents. FPV was one of the first funds worldwide to focus on blockchain technology, and all three funds are top quartile performers as benchmarked against their peers. Prior to FPV, Jobanputra invested for Intel Capital, the NYC Investment Fund and Omidyar. She started her career in telecom and media investment banking in NYC and London. Jobanputra was awarded Institutional Investor’s Most Powerful Fintech Dealmakers 2016-2018. She was awarded Microsoft’s VC Trailblazer Award in 2018 for “early and bold” investments in the blockchain sector. In 2017, she was cited as a “Top 5 Investor Powering the Blockchain Boom” and Crunchbase noted FPV as one of the top VC funds in blockchain “before it was cool”. She is a magna cum laude graduate from The Wharton School and Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with an MBA from the Kellogg School in 1999.