Ashwini Anburajan is a founding partner of 22X Fund, the first cryptocurrency backed index of startups. 22X is an innovation in venture funding, designed to disrupt traditional startup funding models and democratize access to capital. Ashwin is a serial entrepreneur building companies in the adtech industry including OpenUp, a machine learning platform for audience segmentation. She was an early employee at BuzzFeed where she lead their data network and prior to that worked as a journalist, covering politics for NBC News, ABC and NPR. She is a graduate of Brown University and has an MBA from the University of Cambridge.