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Derek Walkush

Investment Partner at Variant

New York, New York

Overview 

Derek Walkush, an Investment Partner at Variant.fund in New York, has a background in quantitative and qualitative research, digital marketing, and web content writing. With experience at top firms like Accolade Partners and Altus Power America, Derek's career highlights include being a Mortara Undergraduate Research Fellow at Georgetown University and interning at Paradigm Companies in finance.

Work Experience 

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Uniswap Labs

  • Unichain Growth Lead & Ventures

    2025 - Current

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Variant

  • Investment Partner

    2022 - 2025

    early stage token fund.

Variant is an early-stage venture firm investing in crypto networks & platforms building The Ownership Economy.

variant.fund
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Accolade Partners

  • Investment Intern

    2021 - 2021

    Nationally ranked fund of funds with $3b+ AUM. Focus on hard to access funds with exposure to HC and Tech. Launched one of the first institutional blockchain fund of funds.

GU

Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service

  • Mortara Undergraduate Research Fellow

    2020 - 2021

    Quantitative (data analysis on Stata / R) and qualitative (literature and document review) International Political Economy research.

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