Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Gökhan Er is a Co-founder and Managing Partner of Lantern Capital and has been investing in crypto since 2017, with a focus on early-stage infrastructure. He spent four years as Managing Director at IOSG Ventures. Before that, he worked on strategy at Huobi Global’s Beijing headquarters as one of the firm’s first foreign employees. Gökhan earned his Master’s from Peking University with a thesis on China’s role in global crypto markets. Fluent in Mandarin, English, and Turkish, and while being a digital nomad, he spends most of his time in Hong Kong after 8+ years in Beijing and Shenzhen.
Tomasz K. Stanczak
Tomasz K. Stańczak is a Co-Founder and General Partner of Lantern Capital through Nethermind, and he currently serves as Co-Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation. He has been actively building at the core of Ethereum since 2017 - Tomasz previously founded Nethermind, a leading crypto research and engineering firm, and served as CEO of Twinstake, an institutional staking platform with over $2B in AUM. Tomasz has held key governance roles as a former board member at the Starknet Foundation, council member at Forta, and an early team member at Flashbots.
Nethermind is a premier research and engineering firm at the heart of the Ethereum ecosystem, operating since 2017. As the maintainers of one of the main Ethereum clients—used by leading institutions like Coinbase and Kiln to power over 50% of their nodes—Nethermind plays a foundational role in the protocol’s ongoing development and security. With a team of over 200 engineers and researchers, including 20+ PhDs, they bring deep expertise across Ethereum core protocol work, zero-knowledge cryptography, Layer 2 development, security auditing, and validator infrastructure.
Beyond protocol development, Nethermind offers full-stack support for the most ambitious teams in crypto, including cryptographic R&D, security reviews, validator and infrastructure setup, token design, and long-term scaling solutions. Their collaborators include some of the most advanced projects in the space such as Flashbots, Starkware, and Worldcoin. As a trusted technical partner and builder, Nethermind stands out as one of the most respected and capable organizations pushing the boundaries of Ethereum and beyond.