Jamie Hyla

Jamie Hyla

General Partner

Notable Investments

Ramp.network (Seed)

Stoke (Seed)

Radicle.xyz (Seed)

Starfish Space (Seed)

Celestia (Early)

Mysten Labs (Series A)

EvenUp (Seed)

Operating Experience

Head of Strategy · Calibra · 2018 – 2021
Corporate Development · Facebook · 2017 – 2018
Corporate Development & Strategy · Medium.com · 2016 – 2017
Partner, Deal Team · Andreessen Horowitz · 2013 – 2016

Education & Affiliations

Jamie graduated from Cornell University with a bachelors in Statistics and Information Science.

She was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Venture Capital List and MIT Technology Review’s “Innovators under 35 list”, and has been covered in CNBC, Fortune, Wired, Financial Times, and Bloomberg.

Bio

Jamie is the co-founder of Libra and was Head of Strategy for Novi, Facebook’s digital wallet for the Libra payment system. She originally joined Facebook as part of the Corporate Development team in 2017 where she worked on defining Facebook’s strategy around blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and decentralized technology.

Prior to Facebook, Jamie ran Corporate Development at Medium where she led the Embedly acquisition and played a key role in developing Medium’s subscription strategy. She began her career on the Deal Team at Andreessen Horowitz.

Jamie joined Venture in 2020 to invest in networks and marketplaces across a wide spectrum of sectors, most actively in crypto. She loves working with technical Founders who are creating new markets.

Interests

Playing piano, any/all forms of movement including walking endlessly around San Francisco with her dog.