Kevin Crew

Kevin Crew’s public professional footprint is limited. His LinkedIn profile identifies him as based in the San Francisco Bay Area, affiliated with Coil, and educated at the University of Colorado Boulder. Third-party people-directory data lists him at Coil as Senior Director of Business Operations and VP of Finance & Business Operations.

Coil was a San Francisco technology company founded in 2018 to build a Web Monetization model for creators and publishers. Its model used the proposed Web Monetization standard and Interledger to stream micropayments to creators in real time as members browsed the web. Coil’s public LinkedIn page describes the company as “building a better business model for the Web” and notes a 2019 seed round of $4.0 million.

Coil announced on February 2, 2023 that it would stop accepting new Coil Membership sign-ups immediately and discontinue its service on March 15, 2023, while passing future Interledger development to the Interledger Foundation. That context matters for Crew because his publicly visible operating background appears tied to finance and business operations in the same Ripple / Interledger / web-monetization ecosystem that overlaps with Fractal Investments’ crypto focus.

Fractal Investments, using the domain fractal-investments.com, is publicly described by Crypto Fund Research as a San Francisco crypto hedge fund led by Tim Lewkow and Eli Lang. SEC Form D filings for Fractal: Virtual Currency Investment Fund I LP list the issuer in San Francisco and identify Fractal: Virtual Currency Investment Fund LLC as the general partner; the SEC’s adviser database lists the adviser as not currently registered and notes its California exempt-reporting-adviser status was withdrawn effective June 23, 2022.

• Fractal Investments is described as investing in “cryptographic digital assets” and enabling exposure to “the new wave of digital assets.”
• Public Fractal materials and fund-directory listings position the firm as a crypto / virtual-currency investment fund rather than a generalist angel syndicate.
• The firm’s public key people are Tim Lewkow and Eli Lang; I found no public source confirming Kevin Crew as an investment decision-maker at Fractal.
• Crew’s public operator background at Coil suggests the strongest relevance is to founders working on crypto payments, Web Monetization, Interledger, creator monetization, and related financial infrastructure.
• No independently verified public check-size, decision criteria, or personal investment thesis for Kevin Crew was found.