Syndicate is a series-A crypto company that was founded to revolutionize venture capital—that is, how the future gets funded.
Since then, the company has pivoted to focus on delivering that same underlying tech in developer APIs that let anyone, including some of the internet's fastest-growing communities and culture-defining brands, build their community on crypto rails.
I joined Syndicate as employee #1. Less than 6 months later, we closed >$28M from VCs like a16z and scaled the company to over 30 people around the world. As Head of Design, I’m responsible for the core pillars of product design, research, brand, content, design ops, and a pillar we like to call “economies”, so called because we don’t just design our product—we’re designing entirely new economies and a fledgling industry.
Syndicate is a series-A crypto company that was founded to revolutionize venture capital—that is, how the future gets funded.
Since then, the company has pivoted to focus on delivering that same underlying tech in developer APIs that let anyone, including some of the internet's fastest-growing communities and culture-defining brands, build their community on crypto rails.
I joined Syndicate as employee #1. Less than 6 months later, we closed >$28M from VCs like a16z and scaled the company to over 30 people around the world. As Head of Design, I’m responsible for the core pillars of product design, research, brand, content, design ops, and a pillar we like to call “economies”, so called because we don’t just design our product—we’re designing entirely new economies and a fledgling industry.
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Physical merch proved to be an important part of our brand storytelling, Nearly all companies produce some kind of merch for internal audiences to promote team cohesion, but we made it a true cornerstone of our brand expression.
That’s because crypto, for all its pseudonymous online nature, is actually a very in-person experience. The crypto industry is small and tight-knit, with a lot of IRL events where builders come together. When everyone is a faceless address, putting a face to a name in person is huge for building brand awareness.
This project produced in collaboration with Blake Johnston and the incredible team at Canary
