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Joyce Yang
Joyce Yang is an American investor and entrepreneur in the cryptocurrency and web3 sectors, known for founding Global Coin Research and for leadership roles in venture organizations focused on decentralized technologies. She has been described as a Partner at Seed Club Ventures with an emphasis on early-stage, internet-native projects and DAOs, and is publicly listed as a Partner at Pivot Global on a 2026 ETHConf speaker roster. Yang is based in New York City and has been associated with initiatives that prioritize web3 infrastructure, consumer-facing crypto applications, and the decentralized creator economy. [1] [2]
Education
Yang holds a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Washington University in St. Louis. These academic credentials are frequently referenced in professional bios and profiles associated with her work in finance and digital assets. [1]
Career
Early career in finance
Before entering the digital asset industry, Yang worked in traditional finance as a financial analyst at Merrill Lynch. This experience in equities and financial analysis preceded her shift into web3 and informs the investment-oriented lens evident in her later roles. While dates are not specified in available profiles, her early finance background is a recurring element in her public bios. [1]
Founder of Global Coin Research
Yang founded Global Coin Research (GCR), initially positioned as a media and research platform in the crypto ecosystem. Under her direction, GCR was later transitioned into a tokenized investment DAO model that is reported to have financially supported a portfolio of over 60 cryptocurrency startups. Public materials emphasize GCR’s evolution from publishing and community research to a tokenized structure centered on investment participation, with Yang identified as the organization’s founder. [1] [3]
Partner at Seed Club Ventures
Yang is described as a Partner at Seed Club Ventures, where she allocates capital from a reported $25 million venture fund dedicated to early-stage web3 communities, decentralized autonomous organizations, and internet-native projects. Her stated investment purview at Seed Club Ventures aligns with broader themes in her portfolio, including infrastructure, early consumer crypto applications, and the decentralized creator economy, reflecting a thesis-driven approach to the maturation of web3 use cases and communities. [1]
Pivot Global involvement
Yang has been publicly identified with Pivot Global, a venture DAO; she is cited as a member of its research committee in reporting about the organization and is listed as “Partner, Pivot Global” on a 2026 ETHConf speakers page. The research committee is characterized as being closely engaged with each investment, and Pivot Global’s model is described as leveraging expertise from Global Coin Research alongside former Bixin Ventures partners. This organizational context situates Yang within a collaborative, DAO-oriented vehicle that evaluates investments across a range of web3 verticals. [3] [2]
Pivot Global’s research committee, as publicly named, includes:
- Joyce Yang (Global Coin Research founder)
- Allen Zhao (former Bixin Ventures and LD Capital partner)
- Mustafa Yilham (former Bixin Ventures partner)
- Jonathan Man (Global Coin Research research director)
These committee members are presented as contributing to investment assessments and alignment of interests within the DAO’s process. [3]
Pivot Global’s stated investment domains include:
- Core web3 infrastructure
- Middleware
- Modularity and interoperability
- Privacy technologies
- Decentralized finance (DeFi)
- Social decentralized applications (social dApps)
- Gaming
Within this framework, Pivot Global is described as operating on an invitation-only membership basis. These domains and organizational features frame the context in which Yang’s committee role is situated. [3]
Public materials citing the team behind Pivot Global and Global Coin Research attribute prior involvement with projects such as:
- Infrastructure: LayerZero, Aptos, Scroll, Worldcoin, Mina, and Mysten Labs
- Gaming/NFT: Big Time and Star Atlas
- DeFi: Pendle and Drift
These examples are presented as part of the team’s broader track record rather than as an individual attribution to Yang alone, offering context to the investment milieu associated with the organizations she is linked to. [3]
Investment focus and approach
Yang’s reported investment focus includes web3 infrastructure, early-stage consumer crypto applications, and the decentralized creator economy. This emphasis is consistent with the mandates associated with Seed Club Ventures—backing early-stage web3 communities, DAOs, and internet-native projects—and aligns with the domains described for Pivot Global’s research and investment activity. Together, the roles suggest a thesis oriented toward building foundational layers of web3 while also exploring consumer adoption pathways through creator-aligned and social applications. [1] [3]
Within Global Coin Research, Yang oversaw a transition from a media platform to a tokenized investment DAO model reported to have supported more than 60 startups, a pivot that reflects an approach centered on participatory investment structures and community-led research. The Seed Club Ventures fund size, noted as $25 million, and its target sectors further illustrate a focus on early-stage capitalization and ecosystem-building across decentralized technologies. [1]
At Pivot Global, the research committee structure and investment domains—ranging from infrastructure and privacy to DeFi and gaming—underscore a broad-spectrum research and diligence posture that complements Yang’s stated areas of interest. The invitation-only framing of Pivot Global’s membership also indicates a curated approach to collaboration and capital formation in its venture DAO design. [3]
Public engagements
Yang is listed as a speaker at ETHConf scheduled for June 8–10, 2026, in New York City, where her affiliation is stated as “Partner, Pivot Global.” Conference speaking roles have been one avenue through which her professional affiliations and biographical details have been publicly shared. [2]
Roles and affiliations
Global Coin Research (Founder)
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Function and evolution: Established by Yang as a crypto media and research platform, later transitioned to a tokenized investment DAO model reported to have supported more than 60 cryptocurrency startups. This evolution reflects a move from content and analysis to participatory capital allocation aligned with decentralized governance principles. [1]
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Leadership and context: Yang is identified as the founder of Global Coin Research, and in materials related to Pivot Global, she appears as one of the named research committee members collaborating across DAO-based venture structures. [3]
Seed Club Ventures (Partner)
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Mandate and fund: Yang is reported as a Partner allocating capital from a $25 million venture fund dedicated to early-stage web3 communities, DAOs, and internet-native projects. The stated platform thesis places emphasis on infrastructure and consumer application layers, areas also cited in relation to Yang’s personal investment focus. [1]
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Focus and themes: The focus areas associated with Yang—web3 infrastructure, early consumer crypto applications, and the decentralized creator economy—correspond to domains commonly highlighted in Seed Club Ventures’ approach to backing network-native organizations and projects. [1]
Pivot Global (Research committee; Partner listing on ETHConf)
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Committee role and structure: Yang is named as a member of Pivot Global’s research committee, which is described as actively involved in investment processes to ensure alignment of interests. The committee is presented as drawing on the collective experience of members from Global Coin Research and former Bixin Ventures partners. [3]
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Public affiliation: For ETHConf in June 2026, Yang is listed as “Partner, Pivot Global,” indicating a public-facing association with the organization at that time. [2]
Professional background and geographic base
Yang’s professional background spans traditional finance and digital assets, with prior experience as a financial analyst at Merrill Lynch before transitioning to crypto-focused research, media, and investment roles. She is based in New York City, a location that aligns with the finance and technology networks central to her professional activities. [1]
Notable organizational contexts
Tokenized investment DAOs and Global Coin Research
Global Coin Research’s reported transition from a media platform into a tokenized investment DAO marked a shift in how research communities can organize capital to support startups. In this model, tokenization and DAO structures have been presented as tools for community mobilization around due diligence and investment participation. Under Yang’s leadership, GCR’s DAO-focused approach is described as having supported a portfolio of more than 60 startups, illustrating the scope of activity associated with the platform’s investment arm. [1]
Venture DAO collaborations and Pivot Global
Pivot Global is presented in public materials as a venture DAO that engages in global web3 investments across core infrastructure, privacy, interoperability, middleware, DeFi, social dApps, and gaming, with an invitation-only membership structure. Yang’s role on its research committee, and her listing as Partner on a major conference speaker page, place her within a network of DAO-centric venture collaboration that integrates research-driven diligence with capital allocation. [3] [2]
The team context cited around Pivot Global references a track record associated with projects ranging from base-layer infrastructure to applications in gaming and decentralized finance. These attributions serve as background to the organizational ecosystem in which Yang participates, complementing her earlier work building a research-led community and DAO through Global Coin Research. [3]
Areas of emphasis across roles
Across Global Coin Research, Seed Club Ventures, and Pivot Global, Yang’s publicly documented areas of emphasis include:
- Building and researching web3 infrastructure that underpins decentralized networks and applications.
- Supporting early-stage consumer crypto applications oriented toward broader adoption.
- Engaging with the decentralized creator economy, which intersects with community governance and internet-native models for value creation and distribution. These emphases are consistently reflected across the mandates and descriptions associated with her roles and organizations. [1] [3]
Public profile and recognition
Yang’s public profile includes speaker listings at industry events, including ETHConf in June 2026. Such appearances typically feature biographical notes that reference her leadership at Global Coin Research, her investment activities at Seed Club Ventures, and her roles associated with DAO-based venture initiatives such as Pivot Global. [2] [1]
Selected contexts and examples associated with team track records
Public reporting linked to Pivot Global and Global Coin Research names a number of prominent web3 and crypto projects as part of the broader team’s track record:
- Infrastructure and protocol layer: LayerZero, Aptos, Scroll, Worldcoin, Mina, Mysten Labs
- Gaming and NFTs: Big Time, Star Atlas
- Decentralized finance (DeFi): Pendle, Drift
These examples, presented as team attributions rather than individual credits, indicate the categories of investments that have been associated with the organizations and collaborators in Yang’s professional orbit. [3]
Geographic and community ties
Yang is based in New York City, a hub for finance and a growing center for crypto and web3 communities. This location has frequently appeared in profiles and conference listings that also detail her education, early finance career, and subsequent work at the intersection of research, community building, and venture investing in decentralized technologies. [1] [2]
Summary of professional profile
- Founder of Global Coin Research, a platform that evolved into a tokenized investment DAO reported to have supported more than 60 startups.
- Partner in venture initiatives that back web3 communities and DAOs, including reported leadership at Seed Club Ventures with a $25 million fund.
- Research committee member and publicly listed Partner at Pivot Global, a venture DAO with an invitation-only structure and a focus spanning infrastructure, privacy, interoperability, middleware, DeFi, social dApps, and gaming.
- Educational background includes an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis.
- Prior experience includes work as a financial analyst at Merrill Lynch. These elements form a consistent profile of Yang as a web3-focused investor and founder working across research-driven, DAO-enabled venture structures and early-stage capital deployment. [1] [3] [2]
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