I get companies onto US banking rails.
And I back founders building in AI, finance and emerging tech.
Early-stage AI, finance and emerging tech.
Now
CFX Labs
I invested in CFX in 2021 and it is the work I am going deepest on now.
CFX gives companies outside the US real access to US banking. Accounts, payments, collection, and insured deposits, through partner banks rather than around them.
CFX has settled over $1.4 billion to date and holds more than $120 million in customer deposits.
Most of the companies it serves are working to a date and have no straightforward way to get banked. That is the whole business.
Where I've Been
Figment
In 2018 I co-produced a blockchain founder summit in Chicago that led to the formation of Figment. It is now one of the largest staking infrastructure providers in the world, with more than 700 institutional clients and over $15 billion in staked assets across more than 50 networks.
In July 2026 Morgan Stanley Investment Management selected Figment as a staking provider for its new Ether and Solana ETPs.
We were the first money in.
"Wilson was instrumental in catalyzing Figment. He brought the founders together, facilitated our earliest thinking, and backed us before anyone else. He was first money in."Lorien Gabel, CEO, Figment
Prota Ventures
As co-founder of Prota I backed early-stage founders with capital and with the operating help that usually matters more.
We launched Figment, Stix and Bird Buddy, among others. Together those companies are worth over $1.5 billion.
"I have known Wilson for more than a decade, including as a founding partner at Prota. He listens closely, hears what you have not quite said, and gives you his honest read, even when it is not what you want to hear."Will Little, Founding Partner, Prota Ventures
Building inside large companies
Earlier I built new ventures inside Fortune 100 companies, sitting on growth boards alongside C-suite teams at Citibank, Johnson & Johnson, Nike, Exelon and Mars.
"Wilson and his team turned our ideas into real-world experiments at incredible speed. The data spoke for itself and one of those ventures led to a successful acquisition. We knew we had the right partner to build with."Brian Hoff, VP of Innovation, Exelon
The Early Chapters
How a law degree, a fishing boat, and a few wild years in Ibiza shaped how I make decisions.
How I learned to read the world
I grew up in Vancouver, then headed to Southern England for boarding school, university and law school, after working a run of very character-building jobs to pay my way.
Salmon canneries. Commercial fishing boats. Door-to-door encyclopedia sales. World Book, baby.
From 1985 to 1989 I spent four years backpacking through Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa and South America. That time taught me how to stay curious, read a room, and move through unfamiliar places with more awareness.
In 1994, fresh out of law school, I followed my instincts to Ibiza just as the island's nightlife was taking off. I worked for the owner of Privilege, then joined Manumission, where I booked major DJs and helped build what became a formative chapter.
Looking back it was completely formative and just the right amount of unhinged.
Entrepreneur and builder
Things started moving when I co-produced Manumission: The Movie. It somehow made its way onto Channel 5 in the UK, and that small win gave me enough momentum to chase the next one.
In 1998 Ashley and I moved to New York. That same year I teamed up with three MIT grads to start an adtech company called LiquidSite. It was peak Web 1.0. We raised $4 million in six months, and that startup became my first real MBA.
After that came Journeys by DJ, a record label and series of compilation albums with Coldcut, Gilles Peterson and Norman Jay. Some sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Others did not. That is the game.
Since then I have co-founded and launched businesses across tech, media and design. The throughline has stayed the same: build things that matter with people you believe in.
In 2020 Ashley and I moved to St. Augustine. Our daughters are growing up fast. So are we.