Simone Syed is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Velorum Capital. She is also an Angel Investor. She was previously an investor with Mithril Capital Management, computational neuroscientist advising Halcyon Molecular, Chief of Marketing at Tradehill bitcoin exchange, Co-Founder at mobile peer to peer payments system Bitcoin.com, Co-Founder of BIL Conference, and Founder of BlackStarr Media, who was major partners with SpaceX and Discovery Channel.