Chris Kelly

Chris has a 15 year track record as personal family office head providing angel and later stage investments to multiple successful companies including Alchemy, Chime, Looker (acquired by Google Cloud), SpaceX, Zipline, Silicon Ranch, and public.com. He recently launched Kelly Ventures I, a blockchain-focused venture fund to invest in the deep technological innovation going on in the space.

He joined with friends from around California to purchase the NBA’s Sacramento Kings in 2013 and keep them in California’s capital city. Helping to oversee the construction of the Golden 1 Center as the Kings’ new home in downtown Sacramento, Chris and his partners completed a development that is the cornerstone of Sacramento’s downtown revitalization. He is an active participant in the NBA’s blockchain activities, including the phenomenally successful NBA
Top Shot NFT collecting and trading platform.

Chris holds a B.A. in Government and Philosophy from Georgetown, a M.A. in Political Science from Yale, and a J.D. degree from Harvard, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.