Saurabh Sharma is a General Partner at Jump Capital and Head of Investments at Jump Crypto where he invests across Centralized & Decentralized Infrastructure, Open Finance and Web3 primitives as well as lead various R&D initiatives. Saurabh has been instrumental in setting up and scaling Jump’s crypto investing efforts and has witnessed closely the rise of this technology paradigm and asset class. Saurabh enjoys studying new token driven economic models and how those could enable more democratized access to infrastructure and services.

Saurabh started his career as a High-Performance Computing Researcher at French National Research Institute, worked as a quant trader with Lehman Brothers and led data science, operations, and product teams at Groupon. Saurabh received a Master’s in Computer science from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.