Bettina Warburg is a blockchain researcher, entrepreneur and educator. A political scientist by training, she has a deep passion for the intersection of politics and technology.
Why you should listen
A graduate of both Georgetown and Oxford, Bettina Warburg is a leading investor, researcher and speaker on Web3, blockchain and emerging technologies. Her distillations of these complex topics are often used by university programs, executives and major conferences as foundational explanations. Previously, Warburg cofounded Warburg Serres, an early-stage venture capital fund, and Animal Ventures, a strategic advisory firm focused on emergent technologies. There, she incubated new startup ideas, advised Fortune 500 clients, governments and universities in developing minimum viable products and strategized around blockchain, artificial intelligence, industrial internet of things and digital platforms.
Warburg continues to work with veteran Layer 1 teams and new crypto-native entrepreneurs building out the future of our technology stack. Warburg also engages in advisory work with select companies trying to onboard Web3 tooling and the entrepreneurs working to shape it.
Warburg has given talks and helped curate conferences such as World Government Summit, DLD Munich, IBM Think, The Business Council, Smart City Expo, Skoll World Forum, Salzburg Global Seminar, Personal Democracy Forum, and numerous universities around the world. She has lectured as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas School of Information in Austin, and is coauthor of
Asset Chains: The Cognitive, Friction-Free, and Blockchain-enabled Future of Supply Chains (2017), as well as the
The Basics of Blockchain (first edition, 2019).
