Short Bio: Dr. Oliver Krause is the Founder of Advantum Ventures with an innovation & transformation advisory business and initiator of untitled INC Token Economy Experts & Ventures network where his personal focus is on gr33nBASE.io. This is a web 3 platform for capital formation for VC and Venture in Greentech e.g. Climate Postive Concrete, Synthetic Fuels , reen Compute & more.. Oliver is also an LP and Advisor at Smape.Capital, a Token VC. With a background of more than 25 years from roles as a founder, consultant, in applied research, and investor in startups. Oliver has an academic background as a mechanical and industrial engineer with a focus on software solutions for R&D, AI, ERP and dis a phD on Organizational Perfornance Management. During the World Economic Forum week, he is co-curator of unDavos & Digital Davos. Oliver has been a speaker at conferences like COP28, Crypto Assets Conference, IoT World and more and is a co-producer of the award-winning documentary Cryptopia – Bitcoin, Blockchain & the Future of the Internet.
Fun Facts about you: Today AI experts Advsiors and founders are everywhere. I am one of the few who actually worked in this field in the mid 1990s at the intersection with rocket science
When and what was your first touchpoint with ReFi & Blockchain?: This was about 2021 when we embarked on a joint venture to build a carbon reserve currency
What fascinates you most about ReFi?: Refi is an area where blockchain & token economy can deliver real world impact
Your favorite ReFi Influencer: More broadly Al Gore, John Kerry
Your best knowledge resource in the blockchain space?: There are plenty of great resources on linkedin, e,g. Michael Nadeau, youtibe /Raoul Pal, CTO Larsson etc) and wesites e.g. at a16z crypto and books eg Don Tapscott or Chris Dixon or Lyn Alden etc
My favorite ReFi project? gr33nBASE.io… i am biased 😉
Your favorite word in Crypto Jargon: Token Economy
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