Billionaire Henry Kravis has started investing in the cryptocurrency space, according to a report by Bloomberg on June 28.
Ben Forman, a former employee of Kravi's KKR & Co, said that Kravis has invested in the flagship fund for his blockchain-focused investment firm ParaFi Capital of San Francisco.
"While I toyed with the idea of pursuing blockchain investing within KKR, it was clear to me that the firm did not provide the optimal format to do so. Instead of pursuing crypto at KKR, I wanted to build the KKR of crypto."
ParaFi reportedly manages $25 million in assets, which Forman hopes to quadruple its by Q1 2020.
Kravis is estimated to have a net worth of $5.7 billion, according to Forbes.
As previously reported by Cointelegraph, the wealth of the founders of the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, the Winklevoss twins, recently hit $1.45 billion due to the recent resurgence in the crypto market.
The bitcoin price recently corrected down to $10,380 before slowly starting to rise again.
Some analysts are unconcerned by this dip, and believe it is consistent with an ongoing bull run for the leading cryptocurrency.
"A 20%-30% pullback would not be surprising and very consistent with bitcoin's recent bull-market pullbacks."
Billionaire Henry Kravis Invests in Former Employee's Crypto Fund
gepubliceerd op Jun 28, 2019
by Cointele | gepubliceerd op Coinage
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