Miko Matsumura
Miko Matsumura
Managing Partner
Miko is a Managing Partner with gCC gumi Cryptos Capital, a Silicon Valley investment fund including early-stage investments in unicorns like OpenSea, Yield Guild Games, VEGA Protocol, 1Inch Network, and Agoric. Miko fell in love with open-source software 25 years ago as chief Developer Evangelist for the Java Programming Language and Platform at Sun Microsystems. Since then, he has been building open-source software startups in Silicon Valley including raising over $50 million in venture capital for developer platform companies such as Gradle and financial infrastructure companies like Hazelcast He holds a Master’s degree in Neuroscience from Yale University where he worked on abstract computational neural networks.
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Panel 5: Beyond Speculation: Can Web3 Still Matter?
​After years of hype cycles, memecoins, regulatory battles, and market volatility, the Web3 industry finds itself at a critical turning point. Was Web3 merely a speculative trend, or is the technology finally maturing into something with real-world value? This panel explores whether blockchain, decentralized infrastructure, digital ownership, and tokenized ecosystems can move beyond speculation and deliver meaningful impact across finance, AI, gaming, identity, enterprise, and creator economies in 2026 and beyond.