chelsetokio

Convened founders, KOLs, investors, traders, and project teams through group chats, dinners, and conference events. Grew activity across multiple portfolio projects through CT campaigns, Spaces, bounties, and partner sourcing. Increased portco visibility by driving community engagement and market-relevant social participation.

Expanded Mask's market exposure by organizing large conference activations and ecosystem representation. Sourced and closed deal flow, supporting investments in Lens Protocol, Chipped, Orb, and more. Managed founder and project relationships from initial sourcing through investment review.

Raised $1.5M pre-seed by shaping the fundraising narrative for a DAO payments product. Built a market-researched streaming payments product and coordinated early operations, GTM, and team execution. Secured PR in Entrepreneur, The Defiant, CoinTelegraph, Cryptonomist, DAO Times, Women in IT, and Gemini.

Led Railgun's DeFiCon 2021 sponsorships (bringing in $400,000 worth of sponsorships), organized and curated all panels, and managed logistics of the conference. Hosted international Railgun events to source investments, integrations, and founder relationships. Created pitch decks, speeches, partner presentations, and investor-facing marketing materials.

Scaled TVL from $65M to $200M, helping Metis reach top-5 Ethereum L2 by TVL. Drove major deployments and integrations with Aave DAO, SushiSwap, Beefy, API3, ICHI, Chainlink, and top apps. Built investor, developer, founder, and partner relationships through ecosystem events, dinners, and talks.

Improved deal execution by guiding clients through secure VDR setup, permissions, and transaction workflows. Served as client point of contact for updates, escalations, Q&A, and cross-functional support. Helped transaction teams adopt Intralinks tools for document review and live deal coordination.

Improved legal-spend visibility for corporate clients through analytics, benchmarking, and market intelligence. Partnered with legal ops teams on onboarding, reporting, and adoption of spend optimization workflows. Translated platform insights into outside counsel analysis and legal budget decision support.

Supported renewals and account growth for CQ legislative intelligence clients across policy and advocacy teams. Managed client use of tracking, alerts, news, analysis, and issue-monitoring tools. Helped government affairs teams brief stakeholders and follow legislative developments.