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Carlos Gomes

Founder at Forefront

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Carlos Gomes is Founder of Forefront, contributor at MintFund and Seed Club. He works as a software developer at the crypto exchange Huobi, is the founder of social of the token website ForeFront and even launched his own social token called $SWAGG.His background and story is extremely interesting and took him from the Cape Verde islands all the way to China and Silicon Valley.He has built an incredible website called forefront which acts as the the one stop shop for all things social tokens. Part coinmarketcap, part news platform and there is even a resource section to learn everything there is about social tokens.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Afropolitan Afropolitan
Pre-Seed -- $ 2.1 M
Jun 21, 2022
Backdrop Backdrop
-- -- $ 1.7 M
Feb 17, 2022
Forefront Forefront
-- -- $ 2.1 M
Sep 16, 2021
Syndicate Syndicate
-- -- $ 0.8 M
Jun 30, 2021

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