Web3 Investor Gathering in Davos brings together startups and VCs

The week of the World Economic Forum in Davos is not just a meeting arena for politicians, but also a venue for many side events in the four big hotels. On Jan. 19, Web3 venture capital firm Blockchain Founders Capital co-hosted the Web3 Investor Gathering at Hotel Seehof alongside reputed startups and investors from the blockchain space.
Keynote speeches and panel discussions combined to create an entertaining and inspiring blend of predictions, background information and anecdotes from the world of crypto.


When referring to 2022 with its many crypto disasters, Wolfgang Männel of Blockchain Founders Capital noted that although the worst may still be yet to come, his conversations with great founders have given him the confidence that Web3 technology will become as mainstream as the internet.


Anthony Scaramucci, the founder of hedge fund SkyBridge, explained why neither Republicans nor Democrats in the United States are interested in introducing crypto regulations that would stifle innovation and that he “couldn’t be more optimistic about blockchain.”


Yat Siu, the founder of Animoca Brands and one of the earliest investors in the nonfungible token (NFT) space, explained during a venture capital panel that China would be a major player in NFTs, with Hong Kong leading the way. Pranav Sharma from Woodstock Capital highlighted that the “success of Web3 in India is inevitable” due to the right crypto regulation and the massive interest in blockchain technology in the country. Olaf Hannemann from CV VC emphasized that the speed of innovation has never been as fast as it is today and that everyone should “buckle up.”
The panel members on blockchain gaming included Sebastien Borget of The Sandbox, who stated that although blockchain can offer interesting rewards to gamers, games need to be entertaining first, while incentives for playing are secondary. Tim Dierckxsens of Venly added that “you can’t just take a Web2 game and put it on the blockchain,” but that there was a great expectation also owing to the caliber of people coming into the gaming space, which Matt Dyer of Zilliqa described as “massive.”
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The subsequent network reception extended the conversations between investors and startups for a while until the 125 participants went back out into the snowy streets of Davos to attend the next event, hopefully with as much inspiration as this event had.

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