Bettina Warburg

Entrepreneur, Idea generator, World traveler

Bettina Warburg is a leading investor, researcher, and speaker on Web3, blockchain and emerging technologies. Her distillation of these complex topics is often used by university programs, executives, and major conferences as foundational explanations. She continues to work with veteran Layer 1 teams and new crypto-native entrepreneurs building out the future of our technology stack. Bettina also engages in advisory work with select companies trying to onboard Web3 tooling and the entrepreneurs working to shape it. She was one of the first speakers to unpack the topic of blockchain to a global audience for TED. She also previously collaborated with WIRED magazine to explain blockchain at 5 levels, which has been widely viewed by millions of people. Bettina 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. Bettina’s work has been cited in publications such as The Atlantic, Barbican, Center for Public Impact, ICMA.org, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She has lectured as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas School of Information in Austin, and is Co-Author of Asset Chains: The Cognitive, Friction-Free, and Blockchain-enabled Future of Supply Chains (2017), as well as the Basics of Blockchain (First edition, 2019). Previously, Bettina co-founded Warburg Serres, an early stage venture capital fund, and Animal Ventures, a strategic advisory firm focused on emergent technologies.

Decentralized technology, leapfrogging infrastructure, new ethical frameworks, political processes.

I believe we are now entering a radical evolution of how we interact and trade. Because for the first time we can lower uncertainty in exchange not just with political and economic institutions, but through decentralized technology itself. And the changes could be very profound.

Blockchain & Web3, Early-stage venture, Futures thinking