Former Google X Engineer Vikash Singh joins world’s first Bitcoin focused venture capitalist firm


In a press release Stillmark which is world’s first Bitcoin focused venture capitalist firm founded in 2019, declared former Google X Engineer Vikash Singh as Principal Investor. He is an artificial intelligence expert.
Till now
Stillmark has raised over $40 million mainly for investing in startups that use
Bitcoin and the Lightning network. As per Stillmark, its fund was twice oversubscribed. Singh has good experience both as an engineer and investor.
“Bitcoin has
always been an incredibly exciting field, but with new technical developments,
especially in Layer-2 technologies such as Lightning, the stage is set for
Bitcoin to positively impact the lives of billions around the world,” said
Singh, per the release.
Alyse Killeen,
Managing Partner and Founder of Stillmark disclosed that he and Vikash have
been colleagues and friends for over six years. Alyse said from cutting-edge
research to production engineering to scaling early-stage startups, Vikash has
a diverse background.
Before joining
Google X Vikash had joined at Heal which is a Series D stage health tech company
that utilizes AI and deep learning. Here joined at seed stage and spent five
years. Singh’s artificial intelligence expertise comes from his previous
experience. In addition to his work at Google's moonshot lab, X, Singh has
worked with Sandbox, an Alphabet division dedicated to AI and physics, as a
biotech and quantum computing researcher. During his tenure at Heal, he was
also involved in developing production machine learning systems that worked in
conjunction with an in-house autonomous routing engine for clinical teams.
Singh wants
Bitcoin to be a “stable base layer for people to be their bank and be
independent.” As one of Stillmark's early portfolio companies, Lightning
Network, led to El Salvador's adoption of bitcoin as legal tender and the
ability to use it as a payment method alongside cash.
Singh will focus
on identifying and cultivating relationships with Bitcoin ecosystem founders,
supporting engineering teams in Stillmark's portfolio, and focusing on
Lightning startups to drive future growth for Stillmark.

Indrani Bose
CBW - External Analyst
INDIA