Daren Matsuoka is a partner on the crypto investment team at a16z, where he supports deal flow and portfolio companies by extracting data from public blockchains.nnPrior to a16z, Daren was a Data Scientist at SVB Capital where he developed and managed a proprietary data and analytics platform. Before that, he completed financial training programs at Morgan Stanley and State Street.nnDaren holds a B.S. in Economics and Computer Science from UC Davis.