Mike Dudas

Managing Partner at 6th Man Ventures

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Biography

Mike Dudas is Managing Partner of 6th Man Ventures, the New York crypto venture firm, and is named by the firm's counsel Lowenstein Sandler as one of its two co-founders alongside Serge Kassardjian. Before 6MV he founded The Block, the crypto news and research outlet, and CoinDesk reported in May 2022 that he had left the role of The Block's chief executive the previous year for the stablecoin firm Paxos. He gave the 6th Man Ventures product keynote at Solana Breakpoint 2025. Delphi Digital's podcast page for its episode with him describes him as Managing Partner at 6th Man Ventures and says he shares 'the inside story of backing Pump.Fun years before it became a cultural phenomenon'. No education record could be sourced from the firm's site, which publishes names and titles only and carries no biographies.

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

Pump.fun

Career Timeline

2022
Named by Lowenstein Sandler on 12 May 2022 as a co-founder of 6th Man Ventures in the announcement of the firm's $145 million second crypto fund.
2022
Quoted by The Block on 12 May 2022 on the firm's approach to tokens: 'We're purely venture and that's a big, big thing. We're not going to be the guys that dump your tokens.'
2025
Delivers the 6th Man Ventures product keynote at Solana Breakpoint 2025.

Sources & References

6th Man Ventures - Team (title) ↗Lowenstein Sandler - firm founded by Mike Dudas and Serge Kassardjian (12 May 2022) ↗The Block - 6th Man Ventures is raising $145 million for a second crypto fund (12 May 2022) ↗CoinDesk via Yahoo Finance - left The Block CEO role for Paxos (12 May 2022) ↗Delphi Digital - Mike Dudas (6MV): Pump.Fun, One of the Greatest Seed Investments Ever ↗Solana Compass - Breakpoint 2025 product keynote, 6th Man Ventures (Mike Dudas) ↗