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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 AIinIA | AI in AppalachIA, where kids build businesses with AI.

PROJECTS
Explorations & Spaces
Business-building workshops, summer camps, and ongoing networks with education & practical projects.
Designed for kids & young adults to create viable & human work to support themselves and strengthen regional resilience. Starting in Appalachia and Indiana as blueprint.
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

Franklin Crypto
Digital Assets Ecosystem

CoinFund
Cryptoassets & Blockchain

Asymmetric
Tech, Based, Macro

Standard Crypto
Crypto-Focused VC

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

GreenField
Bots, not Chems!

Anatar
America's Textile Prime

Harmonic / Moonbase
Unlock Your Value

Decent.Land
Web3 Social Layer

Lawyaw
AI Document Automation

Gravie
Better Benefits for All

Story DAO
Creating Stories

Enhancio
AI Demand Automation
About Us
After Different Unicorns |
Crypto-First Family Office
Contact Us
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