Jesper Kristensen

Jesper holds multiple masters and a PhD in Applied Physics and Computer Science from Cornell and has established himself as a visionary investor through his investments in companies such as SpaceX, Databricks, and others.

His professional experience spans industry R&D, software engineering, quantitative finance, and startup incubation.

Despite the bear market(s) of 2022, he co-founded Panoptic (panoptic.xyz), where he led a funding round of $4.5M and currently runs the business operations. The round was led by gumi Cryptos and included some of the most successful investors including Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs Ventures, Jane Street, Avalanche via their Blizzard fund, and more.

Together with his co-founder, Professor Guillaume Lambert also from Cornell, he was instrumental in the development of Panoptic, a DeFi options protocol that builds on top of Uniswap. This ground-breaking protocol has been highlighted in multiple outlets and has garnered considerable interest within the Web3 community.

Panoptic recently made the list of World Changing Ideas in Fast Company.

In addition to his investments and entrepreneurial activities, he loves to educate and runs a YouTube channel:

𝐡𝐭𝐭𝐩𝐬://𝐰𝐰𝐰.𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐛𝐞.𝐜𝐨𝐦/@𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐤

and has further written a book on Automated Market Makers (AMMs), a key pillar in DeFi in Web3, to assist teams in comprehending the mathematics underlying this crucial concept. The book, titled "Automated Market Makers: The Math Behind DeFi," performs as top 3 on Amazon and can be found at

𝐡𝐭𝐭𝐩𝐬://𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬.𝐨𝐫𝐠/

Jesper holds two patents and has authored multiple peer reviewed articles with hundreds of citations (profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WEOVA5wAAAAJ&hl=en).

Here are some key ways to learn more about his work:

𝐡𝐭𝐭𝐩𝐬://𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐭𝐫.𝐞𝐞/𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐤

𝐡𝐭𝐭𝐩𝐬://𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫.𝐜𝐨𝐦/𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐤

𝐡𝐭𝐭𝐩𝐬://𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐛.𝐜𝐨𝐦/𝐣𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐤𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐧𝟓𝟖

𝐡𝐭𝐭𝐩://𝐣𝐞𝐬-𝐩𝐞𝐫.𝐜𝐨𝐦/𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐨