Hans Thomas

Hans Thomas is an Indian-born American serial entrepreneur and technology investor, and the founder of 10X Capital in New York. Thomas began his career as a technology entrepreneur in 1999, and is an investor in a number of venture capital-backed companies. Thomas is also a sponsor and participant in the Special Purpose Acquisition Company, or SPAC market. He has been featured in Bloomberg News.
Career
InternetCash
Thomas was on the founding team of NYC-based venture-backed financial technology and cryptography startup InternetCash, the founder of Verisign, and El Dorado Ventures of Menlo Park, California for an electronic money system, utilizing its own payment network.
1/0 Capital
In 2001, Thomas joined 1/0 Capital, an investment firm founded by his NYU classmate Vishal Garg, focused on building businesses at the intersection of credit and technology. 1/0 Capital's holdings include Better.com, TheNumber, Future Finance and Climb Credit, along with minority positions in a variety of fintech companies including PeerIQ, Trumid and Zopa.
TheNumber
Thomas co-founded technology startup TheNumber along with partners Vishal Garg, Ziggy Jonsson and Guhan Kandasamy., a New York-based investment firm connecting Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
Mr. Thomas is Chairman of 10X-owned venture capital fund Growth Technology Partners, founded by David Weisburd, as well as credit fund Charleston Capital Management.;
* whom have raised equity capital from co-investors including Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, New Enterprise Associates, Google Ventures, Founders Fund, Andreesen Horowitz, Ribbit Capital, General Catalyst Partners, Fidelity Investments Inc., DST Global, Thiel Capital, Khosla Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Social Capital, TCV Point72 Ventures, QED Investors, and Wellington,
Shift
Thomas was actively involved in the SPAC business combination process of Shift Technologies, Inc., an automotive ecommerce platform co-founded by George Arison and Toby Russell, and special purpose acquisition company Insurance Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: INSU).
10X Capital Venture Acquisition Corporation
Thomas filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a $220 million Initial Public Offering of a special purpose acquisition company named 10X Capital Venture Acquisition Corp on September 25, 2020.
Philanthropy
Thomas is an inaugural Fellow of the American India Foundation c. 2001.
Founded in 2001 by President Bill Clinton and leading members of the Indian business community in the United States, at the suggestion of Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, AIF is a US nonprofit organization involved in accelerating social and economic change in India.
Thomas was focused on an education project called Digital Equalizer

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