Nisa Amoils

Venture and Growth Investor, Managing Director
Grasshopper Capital

Nisa Amoils has been an early stage investor for the past decade. Named one of Business Insider’s Women VC to watch and top 100 Women in Fintech, she is an investor in many Blockchain companies. She was previously with Scout Ventures in New York investing in frontier technologies. She is the author of the bestselling book “WTF is Happening? Women Tech Founders on the Rise” , which makes the business case for investing in women that are building with disruptive technologies such as Blockchain. She is a former securities lawyer and on the Boards of several institutions including Wharton Entrepreneurship and the Institute for Blockchain Innovation. She writes for Forbes and Blockchain Magazine and is a regular on CNBC, MSNBC, Fox, Cheddar and others. Prior to investing, she was an entrepreneur and spent many years in business development at companies like Time Warner and NBC Universal. She holds a business degree from the University of Michigan and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Day 2 - Thursday February 13th

Thursday, February 13th, 2020

11:10 AM OXFORD STYLE DEBATE - TRUE OR FALSE: The recent downturn in value of cryptocurrencies will have a decisively negative impact on large institutional players joining in Digital assets: What are they and could real money managers leverage them?

Is the cryptocurrency market in its current state mature enough for institutional investors to leverage within portfolios?
Are the security standards of cryptocurrencies too weak for institutional investors to realistically invest in these?
Do Cryptocurrencies provide a safe haven in an era of volatility and unpredictability in traditional markets?
Does the lack of a regulated market in cryptocurrencies mean the market is not mature enough to warrant investments?