Ben Forman

Ben Forman is the Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of ParaFi Capital, a New York-based alternative asset management firm focused on blockchain and digital assets, with roughly $2 billion under management. He founded ParaFi in 2018 as one of the earliest institutional investment firms dedicated to crypto, after spending the first decade of his career in credit and private equity at KKR and TPG, where he also led KKR's internal blockchain research starting in 2016. The firm counts KKR co-founder Henry Kravis and Bain Capital Ventures among its backers and has invested in companies and protocols including Anchorage, Bitwise, and Polymarket. Forman graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

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