Nicolas Cary

Nicolas Cary is an American businessman, best known as the co-founder of Blockchain.info and a philanthropist.

In 2014, as CEO of Blockchain, Cary led the biggest round of venture capital financing in the digital currency sector at that time, closing $30.5m from investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners and Richard Branson.

In 2015, Cary was named "European Digital Leader of the Year" by ICT Spring.

In 2017, as President of Blockchain, Cary helped raise another $40m from investors including Google Ventures. Cary believes that blockchain technology can improve society through global, transparent digital payments and IoT applications.

Cary made the first Bitcoin donation to a university in the US, his alma mater. Cary is also a co-founder of skysthelimit.org, the digital platform of Youth Business USA, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.