Graham Jenkin, a Brisbane-born entrepreneur who began his career making websites for centrist political party the Australian Democrats, has hit the big time with his four-year-old crypto start-up CoinList, after raising $US100 million ($138 million) in a deal that values it at $US1.5 billion ($2 billion).
Mr Jenkin quit political life in dismay in the late 1990s after Democrats leader Cheryl Kernot defected to the Labor Party, and embarked on an impressive US-based tech career before co-founding CoinList in 2017.
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Jessica Sier is the North Asia Correspondent for The Australian Financial Review. She is based in Tokyo, Japan. Jessica has previously written on technology, global capital markets and economics. Connect with Jessica on Twitter. Email Jessica at jessica.sier@afr.com
