Betting on AI and Blockchain Before Anyone Else | Radhika Iyengar & Jorden Woods, StarChain Ventures

Radhika Iyengar was named one of the Top 100 Women of the Future and has advised startups that generated $4 billion in shareholder value. Her co-founder Jorden Woods is a Caltech astrophysicist with her own exits and $50 million raised for portfolio companies. Together they wrote a book in 2019 predicting enterprise AI and blockchain would converge. Then, they spent six years building the track record to invest in it.We get into why they treat trust as a literal architectural requirement rather than a feature, how a portfolio company is extending hyper-personalized lending to small businesses with under a 0.2% default rate, and why micro VC math produces better returns at every performance percentile than mega funds chasing hectacorns.