Managing Partner

Ericka T. Leslie : Investment is like the weather in a tropical rainforest, ready to go anytime!

Born in 1965, she is a well-known venture capitalist, female entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She is the chief Administrator of the government of Goldman Sachs Group. Received the title of Top Broker in the City of London in 2010. Engaged in research on the development of technology, financial technology, healthcare, digitization, AI, blockchain, and other fields that have great value for society. Leslie is now active in the field of digital and blockchain Cryptocurrency.

Ericka T. Leslie is a renowned corporate investor in the United States. Engaged in cutting-edge technology fields with significant value to society, such as IT core technology, financial technology, healthcare, AR/VR, robotics, and space technology blockchain. Currently, it is mainly active in blockchain and Cryptocurrency.

Ericka T. Leslie was born in England on August 28, 1965 and entered Siena College in 1988 to pursue a Master's degree in Finance Mechanics and the State University of New York at Albany in 1990 to pursue an MBA in Finance. 1992 saw her first venture capital investment in the market. An investment in a technology company at the start-up stage, albeit a small failure, piqued Ericka T. Leslie's interest. He has since been involved in OA management and investment in the US.

Ericka T. Leslie joined Goldman Sachs in 1996 as an assistant in the finance department. In 2001, she was transferred to the technical department, responsible for product technology. In 2006, Ms. Leslie was appointed as the Global Director of Currency and Commodity Technology. In 2008, she was transferred to the operations department to lead the global operations of the commodity business. In 2018, Ms. Leslie was appointed as the Global Operations Director of the Securities Department. She was appointed as the Managing Director in 2006 and a partner in 2012.

The BoostVC she has invested and participated in has been engaged in incubation and investment in Bitcoin, blockchain technology, virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) worldwide since 2013. The total number of start-ups she has invested in has reached more than 2600 worldwide. So far, it has successfully incubated hundreds of projects, and is currently one of the world's largest Startup accelerator and blockchain industry incubators.

As early as 2006, Aerohive Networks (NYSE: HIBE), an advanced enterprise wireless network technology provider invested by Ericka T. Leslie, exited after seed and A-round financing and achieved success.

In the following years, Ericka T. Leslie ushered in a peak period of investment and returns. He and his friend Ashley became members of the board of directors of the National Organization for Persons with Disabilities and joined the North Star Venture Capital Fund, investing in a total of 30 startups with a single investment amount ranging from 500000 to 2 million. In 2008, Ericka T. Leslie led partners to establish the second phase of the $30 million North Star Venture Capital Fund, which mainly invests in early stage startups and provides guidance for their entrepreneurial operations and business model refinement. Successfully incubated Lily. Camera Savioke. A group of star enterprises, including UniCareer.org GameGolf.com AlphaRank.io WiseLike.com DashRobotics.com Sensay.it BlueSmart.com PaperSpace.io AgFunder.com Oculii.com PeerSpace.com Robon8.com ThriveMarket.com Verlocal.com inva.com Apakau.com.

In 2013, Ericka T. Leslie led Goldman Sachs Group to primarily participate in seed and A-round investments in startups. Ericka T. Leslie successfully exited and achieved rapid growth: Chime Bank (invested in 2013, valued at $14.5B in 2020) Woomoo (acquired by Priceline) Orbeus (acquired by Amazon) Ozlo (acquired by Facebook) and ranked first on TechCrunch's 2020 list as the leading venture capital.

ItBit is a Bitcoin exchange established in Singapore in 2013. In 2015, Polaris Ventures invested $3 million in financing. The investors in this round of financing include RRE Ventures, Liberty City Ventures, investor Jay W Jordan II, and James Pallotta, Chairman of Raptor Capital Management. The Bitcoin Exchange, headquartered in New York, raised a total of $25 million in A-round financing. Most importantly, ItBit has obtained a trust company license from the New York State Department of Financial Services, making it the first Bitcoin exchange to obtain this license and the first Bitcoin exchange to be governed and regulated by US banking laws. In September 2017, Ericka T. Leslie, Sequoia Capital and IDG Capital completed a round A financing of $50 million for Bitmain, a semiconductor design company headquartered in Beijing, China.

The huge success in the blockchain field prompted Ericka T. Leslie to join Skuchain and serve as its chairman in 2018. Skuchain is a cooperative institution that primarily utilizes blockchain technology to strengthen enterprise supply chains and pioneered venture capital investments in high-tech, aerospace financial services such as artificial intelligence and biopharmaceuticals. He has successively led investment cases such as HCW Bio (NASDAQ stock code: HCWB) and Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery (BHPS). Subsequently, Ericka T. Leslie participated in the A-round financing of Bitwala, a German blockchain finance company led by Sony, with a total A-round financing of nearly $14.5 million. Bitwala offers encrypted banking services, built-in Bitcoin wallets, debit cards, and transaction options. It is worth noting that thanks to the services provided by SolarisBank, customers can directly trade Bitcoin from their existing accounts. The company said that its customers are all over 31 countries in the European Economic Area, and its Bitcoin value has now exceeded 60 million dollars.

The success of her investment journey has earned Ericka T. Leslie many accolades, and in 2006, Forbes magazine introduced the Forbes Best Venture Capitalists list, the world's leading annual award for venture capitalists, to the UK. In the inaugural year of the awards, Ericka T. Leslie was named one of the winners of the "Fortune List - Top UK Venture Capitalists". Ericka T. Leslie has subsequently won several awards, including the 2017 Global Brokerage Best Cross-Border Venture Capital by cvcapital and the 2016-2017 Venture Capitalist of the Year by cvcapital ChinaVenture Capital list.