David Namdar

David Joshua Namdar (born 29 March 1985) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is currently a General Partner at Coral DeFi and Co-Founder of NFT.com. He was also a founding partner of two digital asset-focused financial services firms, SolidX Partners in 2014 and Galaxy Digital in 2017. His involvement in Cryptocurrency started in 2012. He is known for being an early bitcoin investor and cryptocurrency entrepreneur, and was featured in the Financial Times article The Bitcoin believers in 2013. 
== Early life and education ==
Namdar was born in New York (state) in 1985 to an Austrian-Czech mother and Israeli-Persian father. After attending Scarsdale High School, where he was a member of the lacrosse and football teams, he then went on to study at the USC Marshall School of Business earning a bachelor’s degree in finance and international business, which included studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has also held the Chartered Financial Analyst designation since 2009. 
== Career ==
Namdar started his career in the finance industry by working at Goldman Sachs and UBS Hong Kong in investment banking and international trading. He returned to New York in 2010 and moved over to the buy-side, trading equities, relative-value and arbitrage at First New York, and Millennium Management, LLC. In 2014, he co-founded SolidX Partners, considered one of the earliest financial services firms focused exclusively on Digital asset and is also known as the second company to register for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund with the SEC. In 2017, Namdar joined Michael Novogratz’s family office to manage his digital asset portfolio, and partnered with him to build another financial services firm focused on digital assets, with plans to start a $500 million hedge fund and later led Galaxy Digital to a $250M raise taking the company public in Canada through an RTO.
In 2021, Namdar relocated to Puerto Rico, where he founded Coral DeFi along with Thomas McLaughlin and Patrick Horsman. Coral is an alternative investment platform focused on digital assets and has multiple onshore and offshore vehicles. The firm has around $100m in AUM.
In that same year, Namdar invested in Immutable Holdings and co-founded NFT.com. A percentage of the website was acquired in a joint venture with Namdar and Brock Pierce among others, Founder of Blockchain Capital and EOS. Namdar assisted the company through its RTO assuming the position as President for Immutable Holdings, the blockchain holding company managing NFT.com.
Namdar has also served as an advisor to numerous companies in the cryptocurrency space and broader technology world. Some of these include MedPilot (Now Vytalize), AcordIQ, CoinRoutes, Union, and Sheesha Finance as their advisors. He has also invested in over 100 companies such as Crypto 1, AMP / Flexa, WAX, Dfinity, Serum, Tokens.com, and Paraswap.
== Media presence and memberships ==
Namdar has participated in extensive industry events as a Public speaker and panelist including CfC St. Moritz, Family Office Experiences, and Coin Agenda. He is also a frequent guest on Prometheus Alt Investments and Roundtable Crypto. He has appeared on a docuseries on Uncensored Crypto.
Category:1985 births
Category:American entrepreneurs
Category:Angel investors
Category:People from New York (state)