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    Hans Thomas

    Hans Thomas

    Serial Entrepreneur & Venture Capitalist with extensive experience building technology businesses disrupting trillion dollar markets. Doing it again, but 10X

    CEO New York City New York University '99
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    Experience
    10X Capital
    10X Capital
    Founder, Founder, Chairman 2004 - Present (over 22 years)
    10X is a NYC Venture Capital investor

    We bring institutional capital to amazing companies that disrupt trillion dollar markets, including consumer, financial services... more and healthcare.
    TheNumber
    TheNumber
    Founder, Co-Founder & Executive Director 2016 - Present (about 10 years)
    We fused real estate and financial data together to build the technology behind one of the largest private MBS settlements as PhoenixABS, then used this big data tech stack... more to help build >$1B of fintech startups inside and outside of 1/0 Capital.

    I then took that same web-scale data fusion & analytics technology and put it on trading desks across Wall Street, from the biggest banks to top credit hedge funds managing $trillions in assets.

    RMBS/2.0, Jumbo, NQM, NPL/RPL, CRT and whole loans
    One Zero Capital
    One Zero Capital
    Executive Director 2001 - Present (about 25 years)
    http://onezerocapital.com

    Emerging Markets Hedge Fund - $250MM AUM (Sr. Managing Director)

    Fintech VC / Incubator >$1B in EV created
    AlphaFlow
    AlphaFlow
    Advisor
    TheSmarterMerchant.com
    TheSmarterMerchant.com
    Advisor
    Milo
    Milo
    Advisor
    RefinanceOne
    RefinanceOne
    Founder, Founder & CEO 2004 - 2007 (over 3 years)
    Built a lead gen business into a 47-state, 9 figure mortgage originator in 3 years, utilizing innovative SEO and advertising technology (at least for the time!).

    Focused... more on mortgages >$1M. Exited prior to crisis.
    InternetCash
    InternetCash
    Founding Team - Pioneering venture-backed cryptographic digital payments FinTech firm (stored value products) 1999 - 2000 (about 1 year)
    Centuriant
    Centuriant
    Founder, Sr. Managing Director
    Family Office. Focus by years:

    2004-2007 - Commercial Real Estate Finance
    2008-2014 - Workouts and litigation related to securitized residential mortgages (RMBS)
    Venture Dynamics
    Venture Dynamics
    Vice President 2000 - 2001 (almost 2 years)
    NYC based Tech Venture Incubator
    International Mercantile DMCC
    International Mercantile DMCC
    Board Member 2006 - 2010 (almost 5 years)
    TheNumber
    TheNumber
    Co-Founder & Executive Director
    Founder
    TheNumber, Centuriant, RefinanceOne, 10X Capital
    Employee
    One Zero Capital, InternetCash, Venture Dynamics, TheNumber
    Investor
     
    Incubator
     
    Advisor
    Milo, TheSmarterMerchant.com, AlphaFlow
    Attorney
     
    Board Member
    International Mercantile DMCC
    Mentor
     
    Member
     
    Acquired
     
     
    Education
     
    About
    Achievements

    Bloomberg called me a serial fintech entrepreneur in a recent article, but these days I'm best known as the founder of 10X Capital, an NYC-based venture capital investor with over 150 portfolio companies including Draft Kings ($DKNG) Palantir ($PLTR) Robinhood, Clubhouse, Overtime, Wish ($WISH), Compass Therapeutics ($CMPS), Punchh (acquired), Honeybook, Vise, AlphaFlow and Milo. I take great pride in the fact that many of our former CEOs have become our LPs after their exits.

    You can think of us as Wall Street meets Silicon Valley. Our superpower is bringing billions of dollars of institutional capital to high growth, relatively early stage businesses, in both equity and debt capital markets and also through our SPAC platform.

    I am the Chairman and CEO of our SPAC franchise, 10X Capital Venture Acquisition Corp ($VCVC), and recently announced a $3B merger between our flagship SPAC and REE Automotive, an Israel-based EV technology company. We also have a risk capital fund for inve

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    Venture Capital Capital Markets Big Data Big Data Analytics Data Science Finance FinTech Business Development Start-Up CEO Board Member Advisor RMBS Cmbs Mortgage Lending Bonds Mortgage Bonds Loans Business Intelligence Startup Founder Lean Startups Start-Ups Startups Payment Processing Payments litigation Hedge Funds Private Equity Bloomberg Intex Calc Intex Dealmaker intex Monte-Carlo Simulation monte carlo simulation Monte Carlo Simulations Merchant Cash Advances Loan Portfolio Analysis Loan Servicing Consumer Lending Asset Based Lending Peer-to-Peer Lending Marketplace Lending Medical Raising Capital Fundraising Equity and Debt Financing Debt Finance Debt capital markets Financial Modeling Financial Modelling & Valuation Public Speaking Public Speaking and Presentations
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