Jason Ma.

Founder / GTM leadership

I help AI & crypto startups go to market.

I like turning early ideas into something people want to use, alongside founders who care about what they’re building.

Based in Lisbon. Open to first GTM hire and GTM leadership roles.

Jason Ma

Experience

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$4.5MRaised at Printr
$250M+Trading volume
40KMonthly active users
15Team members

Printr milestones during my time as cofounder and CEO.

Axelar

Head of DeFi

2022 to 2024

I led DeFi strategy and partnerships, working with protocol teams, governance communities and liquidity providers.

The work included launch coordination for Lido, governance proposals for Curve and partnership incentives for Frax.

Ripple

GTM Strategy & Operations Lead

2021 to 2022

I worked on regional market expansion and product launches for crypto payments.

I also built forecasting, customer segmentation and pipeline frameworks for sales leadership.

Earlier

Sales strategy and operations at WeWork. Strategy and operations at CBRE. Consulting at Roland Berger.

How I work

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Understand the customer

At Printr, I asked creators why they chose other platforms and what would make ours more useful.

Sharpen the positioning

For Printr V2, I explained the thinking behind better incentives for creators and holders, connecting product choices with launch communication.

Build partnerships that support adoption

At Axelar, my work included Lido launch coordination and Frax partnership incentives, bringing protocol teams and governance communities together.

Projects

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What I’m working on now.

Room & Story

AI property presentation · Independent project

I’m building Room & Story to help property professionals turn room photos into AI staging concepts and videos for listings and client presentations.

My work spans product direction, positioning, and bringing the product to market. The product and public examples are live.

Room & Story concept: an AI furnished living and dining room in Ericeira
Room & Story concept

Onchain trader analytics

I’m building PnLTrail to help people find and evaluate onchain traders to copy. It brings together performance, risk and trading behaviour so users can look beyond headline returns.

Starting with Hyperliquid, with trader screening, comparisons and watchlists.

View PnLTrail ↗

Robotics data · Independent project

Kinefoundry is an independent project exploring training data needs for robotics and physical AI. I work on buyer discovery, potential supplier qualification, and scoping possible pilots.

The work starts with understanding requirements, collection workflows, equipment, capacity, and data rights.

View Kinefoundry ↗

About

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Jason Ma

Jason MaLisbon, Portugal

I’m Canadian, based in Lisbon. I studied business at Ivey and engineering at Western. I’ve built distributed teams and worked across product, fundraising and commercial execution.

Outside work, I’m usually with my golden retriever, playing padel or finding a reason to be outdoors.

I also back founders.

Selected angel investments in crypto and financial infrastructure.

Investments, interviews and public work ↗

Get in touch

Have something in mind?

If you’re looking for a first GTM hire or GTM leader for an AI or crypto startup, I’d love to talk about your customers, positioning, partnerships, and launch plans.