William Quigley

William E. Quigley is a cryptocurrency and blockchain investor. He has incubated and invested in more than 30 bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrency-related investments and co-developed the first crypto derivative used to trade pre-release Ethereum. Before his involvement in blockchain, Mr. Quigley was a venture capitalist, co-founding Clearstone Venture Partners.

Before Clearstone, Quigley was a managing director at Idealab! Capital Partners (ICP), is the world’s first consumer Internet venture capital firm. ICP was an early investor in some of the leading Web 1.0 era companies including Paypal, Netzero, MP3.com, and Goto.com, one of the first companies to rank search results based on a bidding process. Quigley co-founded and co-managed Crypto Currency Partners, a blockchain equity investment fund with early notable investments in Coinbase, Kraken, Bitfury, Authy, ChangeTip, and Circle.