

ABOUT
A Crypto-First Family Office | After Different Unicorns
Strange Beasts from Unlikely Places. Created by Repeat AI & B2B SaaS Founders with Multiple Success Exits. Seated Squarely in Fly-over Country. Together with our sister fund, The 6ixth Event, focused on Reimagining Spaces & Growing Things; Distributed Work & Democratized Education; Decentralized Technology & the Ownership Economy. Offices down the Street from Churchill Downs in a Historic Bourbon Bar Named after a Horse: The LongTail Building. Putting it into practice with Sassafras Studios, an AI Creative Agency, Blockchain-Based, in Mid Americana. Philanthopy with AIiA | AI in Appalachia, where kids build businesses with AI.

PROJECTS
Explorations & Spaces
A Crypto-First Founders' Fund |
Narwhal Sister Fund
Horse Racing Dive Bar |
Now Something New
A NextGen Tech Trades & Crafts Biz Studio
PEOPLE
Founders with Repeat Exits Turned Community / Crypto Investors
Melanie Rosenthal
Co-Founder
@ The 6ixth EventEY Entrepreneur of the Year / Yale / Human Genome Project. Work featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, Bloomberg, & US News / Named a CMS Innovator.
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Co-founder & CEO @ Sprigley [Acquired by Eliza, 2009]. Deal team @ Eliza [majority stake investment by Parthenon Capital, 2011]. Co-founder & CEO @ RowdMap, Inc. [Acquired by Cotiviti (COTV), 2017].
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3rd-Shift Factory Worker / College Basketball Player / Volunteer in Kazakhstan / Venture Capital at Socially Responsible Fund / High School Girls Basketball Color Commentary.
Josh Rosenthal, PhD
Co-Creator
@ The LongTail BuildingEY Entrepreneur of the Year / Fulbright / PhD / Sorbonne’s Institute for Advanced Studies (EPHE) / Guest Lecturer @ Harvard, MIT, Hopkins, SXSW, etc. Work featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, Bloomberg, & US News / Named a CMS Innovator.
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Co-founder & CSO @ Sprigley [Acquired by Eliza, 2009]. Deal team @ Eliza [majority stake investment by Parthenon Capital, 2011]. Co-founder & CSO @ RowdMap, Inc. [Acquired by Cotiviti (COTV), 2017].
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Served as Expert Advisor to The White House (Multiple Administrations), OSTP, ONC, HHS, NCVHS, NCQA, Robert Wood Johnson, etc.
PORTFOLIO
Select Funds, Investments & Ops

Strobe Ventures
Pre-Consensus Crypto-Native

Multicoin Capital
Thesis-Driven Investment

1791 Capital
Non-Correlated Assets

ParaFi Capital
Blockchain & DeFi

CoinFund
Cryptoassets & Blockchain

Standard Crypto
Crypto-Focused VC

Asymmetric
Tech, Based, Macro

Metaversal Ventures
Metaverse-Native Creation

Awesome People
Improving Life & Work

Yes VC
Funding Great Companies

Opportunity Louisville
Building Neighborhoods


Bitcoin
A Peer-to-Peer System

Ethereum
Community-Run Tech

Solana
Speed of Light TPS

Helium
People-Powered Networks


Baxus
RWA Uncorked

AION
Bioelectric Hardware

Harmonic / Moonbase
Unlock Your Value

Decent.Land
Web3 Social Layer

Lawyaw
AI Document Automation

Story DAO
Creating Stories

Gravie
Better Benefits for All

GreenField
Bots, not Chems!

Enhancio
AI Demand Automation
About Us
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Crypto-First Family Office
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