FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER
Alyse Killeen
Alyse Killeen is the GP and Managing Partner of Stillmark and is focused on the Firm’s investments. With over a decade of experience in identifying and investing in frontier technologies, Alyse founded Stillmark in 2019 to focus on investments in durable innovation in the bitcoin ecosystem. Earlier, in 2013, Alyse entered the bitcoin industry as one of the first institutional investors to study the potential of Satoshi Nakamoto’s invention. Her first investments in the field were made in 2014 and include the initial financing for Blockstream, a company for which she serves as a Board Director.
The bitcoin blockchain and bitcoin’s Lightning Network are applicable across sectors, geographies, and demographic groups. In kind, Alyse organized and manages Stillmark as a generalist fund with specialty competence and expertise in bitcoin technologies. Alyse believes that Stillmark can consistently and sustainably identify large-scale investment opportunities in the private market, across sectors, that are either freshly unlocked or advanced by bitcoin technology and/or bitcoin the digital, bearer asset.
Stillmark is differentiated as a bitcoin-dedicated fund in that it is developed on a foundation of experience and insight in both the traditional practice of venture capital and in the technologies that define the firm’s mandate. Prior to Stillmark, Alyse was on the investment teams of Los Angeles-based venture capital firms Clearstone Ventures Partners and March Capital Partners, concentrating in part on data science, cloud networking, and cybersecurity technologies as they emerged.
PRINCIPAL
Vikash Singh
Vikash Singh joined Stillmark in 2021. As a Principal Investor at Stillmark, Vikash is focused on the identification of private market companies positioned for breakout performance in the bitcoin and Lightning Network arenas, as well as in closely related fields. He also actively supports certain Stillmark portfolio engineering teams and maintains a deep research practice, now focused on Lightning and other L2 technologies.
Prior to Stillmark, Vikash was a Research Engineer at X, Google’s moonshot factory, and Sandbox, a division of Alphabet focused on artificial intelligence and physics. There he concentrated on projects in machine learning, biotechnology, and quantum computing. This work included a moonshot Vikash launched at X in 2019 as a then AI Resident. During his residency, Vikash also collaborated with TensorFlow Quantum’s quantum AI team to develop quantum graph networks.
Earlier, Vikash spent nearly 5-years at Heal, a Series D stage healthtech company that he joined at seed stage. There he led AI/ML engineering efforts, including the development of an in-house autonomous routing engine and all Heal’s production machine learning systems.
Vikash is a master’s graduate of the University of Cambridge where he studied graph neural networks. Vikash has more than a decade of research experience and has authored nearly a dozen scientific publications and patents.
