Anthony Georgiades is a venture capital investor at Innovating Capital who built and co-founded Pastel Network, an NFT-focused Layer 1 blockchain, giving him the rare perspective of someone who has actually designed and shipped core crypto infrastructure before becoming an investor. He focuses specifically on AI and Web3 infrastructure convergence, co-designing protocols for NFT storage and security rather than just backing consumer applications, and frequently educates mainstream audiences about complex Web3 concepts while appearing on traditional finance panels as the crypto infrastructure expert. Anthony Georgiades is a venture capital investor at Innovating Capital who built and co-founded Pastel Network, an NFT-focused Layer 1 blockchain, giving him the rare perspective of someone who has actually designed and shipped core crypto infrastructure before becoming an investor. He focuses specifically on AI and Web3 infrastructure convergence, co-designing protocols for NFT storage and security rather than just backing consumer applications, and frequently educates mainstream audiences about complex Web3 concepts while appearing on traditional finance panels as the crypto infrastructure expert.