Dr. Najamul Hasan KidwaiCo-Founder and CEO at C1 Fund IncSpeaker
Profile
Dr. Najamul Hasan Kidwai (Naj) leads C1 Fund Inc., a NYSE publicly listed investment fund providing regulated public-market access to late-stage private digital-asset infrastructure companies. In 2025, he led the fund’s IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. The fund has since established strategic investments in infrastructure leaders such as Kraken, Ripple, Polymarket, Alchemy, Figment, Consensys and Chainalysis. Previously, he co-founded and chaired Crypto 1 Acquisition Corp, overseeing a $230 million capital raise. Beyond capital execution, Dr. Kidwai is globally recognised for bridging traditional finance with emerging technology ecosystems.
His leadership emphasises governance, portfolio resilience and positioning digital assets as essential financial infrastructure, he also serves on the Boards of TransFi, OpenPayd, Klickl and is also a co-founder of a leading private markets fund, EQUIAM.
Agenda Sessions
The democratisation of liquidity: unlocking the $25 trillion retail frontier
, 10:05View Session