The Singapore Summit was our first Summit held outside of the United States and focused on the growing blockchain ecosystem in Asia. We presented speakers from Amber Group, Coinbase, Temasek, Bybit, Anchorage and more to an audience of over 275 institutional investors and partners. We also had an amazing custom NFT gallery that featured 6529 Fund, Origin Protocol, and MakersPlace!

Videos of all Singapore Summit speakers and panels can be found here.

Talent

In Q4 2022, we:

• Released the Pantera Talent Playbook

• Released the Pantera Compensation Survey

• Released a few blog posts, notably: The Power of Referrals and How to Write a Job Description

• Worked with over 50 different portfolio companies to support and advise from a talent perspective

• Ran multiple Talent Audits, which earned rave reviews

Testimonial from Rift Finance: 

• “Any early stage company should do a Talent Audit like this to help spot the gaps in their talent processes. I’m a second-time founder and I found it super helpful. There were gaps in our candidate experience, pipeline management, and talent evaluation. Nick helped us set up the behind-the-scenes infrastructure to level up on all of these dimensions.”
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• “As CEO, one of my top priorities is getting the best talent on our team to help us achieve our mission. It’s one of the most difficult things when you’re growing a company. Nick’s Talent Audit and hands-on setup is helping our team hire faster, close more candidates at the finish line, and mitigate bad hires.” **

Testimonial from Stride Labs:

• “Nick’s talent audit kicked our recruiting process into high gear. After reviewing all our docs and processes on his own time, he spent 4 hours 1:1 with our founding team. He revamped our hiring funnels, JDs, ATS system, candidate pitch, technical interviews SLAs, offer process, interview evaluation rubrics, and much more. On top of that, rather than reinventing the wheel he shared the best templates he created based on what has worked for other Web3 portfolio companies – basically all the nitty gritty docs and frameworks you need to land top talent.” **

We’ve defined our function. And going into 2023, we are planning to focus our efforts on three core offerings:

• Talent Strategy – we will help our portfolio companies structure your search, the process, put them in touch with the right partner, and help them manage the search & any applicable 3rd parties.

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• • Example: helping portfolio companies negotiate and manage a contingent/retained search for the first time with an external vendor, talent mapping, compensation questions, ad-hoc questions, etc.

• Talent Audit – we will help portfolio companies build best practices that allow them to take a data-driven approach to hiring. We will also help them implement processes – i.e. standardization and SLA’s that will give them a competitive advantage over the competition. 

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• • Example: we will perform a talent audit with portfolio companies to identify gaps in process, to increase interview efficiency, and to maximize candidate experience.

• Executive Search – we will run the most critical searches for highly-qualified executives. We will be there when they say: “If I don’t hire this VP of Engineering by the end of the year, this company will fail.”

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• • Example: End to end executive search, etc. 

Reach out and let us know if you would like a Talent Audit or help in any of these areas!

Partnerships

Throughout the past year, the Platform team has continued to negotiate with some of the industry’s top organizations on deals and partnerships that will benefit portfolio companies. This initiative is slated to grow greatly in 2023, as we develop high-level partnerships with the best organizations in the industry.

Our most recent partnership with Quantstamp enables our portfolio companies to “skip the line” to access their services, most importantly security audits which often have a lengthy wait time. In addition to expedited audit services, companies can access audit readiness preparation and open office hours with Quantstamp professionals. In October, we partnered with CryptoCurrencyJobs.co, one of the leading job boards in the space to share content and new opportunities.

In 2023, our partnerships will continue to expand and a variety of new offerings will be made available to our portfolio companies.

**Certain statements in this blog post have been made by former or current executives of portfolio companies managed by Pantera or its affiliates (collectively, “Pantera”). While none of the executives quoted in this blog post were compensated for their participation in or statements made in the blog post, conflicts of interest may nevertheless exist in that Pantera, including funds managed by Pantera, and/or the executives of the portfolio companies could benefit from the success of the portfolio company. [In addition, some executives of portfolio companies managed by Pantera may also be investors in funds managed by Pantera and may receive certain economic benefits, including, but not limited to, receiving reduced fee arrangements, co-investment opportunities and/or other economic arrangements. None of these economic arrangements were provided in exchange for statements made in the blog post.