Cryptocurrency and Web3
Sep 20, 2022
Robin Johnannick
Cryptocurrency and Web3

Robin is a serial entrepreneur with extensive start-up; investment and management experience in NZ, Asia and USA. He was Founder and Lead Investor of the Real Value Weekly newspaper; the NZ Advertiser; and Club-Card (a private credit-card company acquired by the Bank of NZ), plus numerous other business adventures, before forming Phoenix Management; a Venture Management Company in 1994. From 1994 to 2004 Phoenix Management raised over $100M for NZ start-ups in the New Energy and Biotech industries which exited by either IPO or trade sale. Robin divested his venture management interests in 2004 and since then has focused on decentralised technology initiatives. He is currently Executive Chairman and Lead Investor of DN 3010 Ltd, a NZ software company which owns the SYLO & Seekers brands, that build decentralised communications; wallets and NFT’s focused on blockchain and Web3 technologies.