About the Firm
Dekryption Ventures was built on an uncommon combination: elite legal training, hedge fund management, entrepreneurial scar tissue, and a decade at the frontier of disruptive technology.
Founder
Mike Kimelman began his career as an M&A lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell, then founded and ran a New York-based hedge fund with over $250 million in assets. Across 25 years in advisory and venture capital, he has counseled companies, funds, and families at every stage. He is the bestselling author of two books and a sought-after voice on disruptive innovation and personal reinvention — from formerly incarcerated youth to global CEOs.
Today he advises select companies, funds, and families through Dekryption Ventures, serves as an advisor to Geneva Life Holdings, and invests in technologies with the capacity to positively reshape the socio-economic landscape.
A common theme runs through everything he has founded, funded, or advised: disruption is survivable — and even profitable — for those who prepare before the wave arrives.
The Arc
M&A practice at one of the world's preeminent law firms — the transaction discipline that underpins every engagement since.
Founded and managed a New York hedge fund with over $250M in assets — capital markets judgment formed where it costs the most to be wrong.
Bestselling author of Confessions of a Wall Street Insider, with national press coverage and a platform on resilience, reinvention, and anti-fragility.
A decade advising and investing at the frontier — life sciences, AI, and the deep technologies redrawing the map.
“His mission: empower people with the skills to prosper in the face of adversity — through leadership and anti-fragility.”
Books
The bestselling memoir of ambition, downfall, and reinvention at the heart of Wall Street.
Buy on Amazon →A clear-eyed primer on digital assets for investors who want signal, not hype.
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