Partner
Sam Trautwein
Venture Partner, Stateless Ventures
- Firm
- Stateless Ventures
- Title
- Venture Partner
- Role
- Venture partner
- Known as
- Investor
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Record updated 18 September 2026
About
Sam is a Venture Partner at Stateless Ventures where he sources DeFi and early stage crypto deals. Sam co-founded Carbon Money during his senior year at Stanford, raising funds from Y Combinator and General Catalyst, among others. Sam started mining Bitcoin in his dorm room in 2014 and, prior to Carbon, was one of the founding engineers at Plenty, a Softbank backed AI and hydroponics company. Sam is passionate about decentralization and tech enabled disintermediation. Sam studied Computer Science at Stanford.
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