A serial entrepreneur and accomplished technology venture investor, Onghai is the seed investor and principal of Alpha Sigma Funds, a blockchain digital assets hedge fund. He is also a seed investor in Coinbase, FundersClub and Upflex, as well as an advisor to several internet incubators. He is a director of MGT Capital, a publicly traded company engaged in mining of bitcoin. He was the CEO of LookSmart, one of the original internet search engines. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Onghai was a portfolio manager for Ibis Capital, a special situations event driven hedge fund in New York City. He was the third employee of GeoCities, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1999 for $3.5 billion. Prior to GeoCities, he worked at the Capital Group, Price Waterhouse, and was one of the pioneer software developers of the Human Genome Project. Onghai earned a designation as a Chartered Financial Analyst charter holder, and is a multiple winner of the best ideas at the prestigious ValueInvestorsClub.com. Onghai also owns a patent in an online polling algorithm. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and graduated from the Executive Management Certificate Program in Value Investing (The Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing) Graduate School of Business at Columbia Business School.