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Grant Gilliam serves as an Independent Director of BTC Development Corp. (NASDAQ: BDCI), a blank check company formed on April 3, 2023 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. BTC Development Corp. priced a $220 million IPO and is led by Chairman Betsy Z. Cohen, with Bracebridge H. Young, Jr. serving as President, CEO, and Director, Jonathan Kirkwood as Vice Chairman, and Hersh Kozlov and Dr. Andrew Hohns as fellow Independent Directors. Gilliam holds an indirect interest in the sponsor entities alongside Kirkwood and Ten 31 LLC; collectively, Jonathan Kirkwood, Grant Gilliam, Ten 31 LLC, and their respective affiliates and controlled entities hold 3,928,333 founder shares. As an independent director, Gilliam also receives an indirect interest in 20,000 founder shares through membership interests in one of the company's sponsors. The SPAC's sponsor, BTC Development Sponsor LLC, receives $30,000 per month for office space, administrative, and shared personnel support services, and the sponsor and its affiliates were issued 8,686,667 Class B ordinary shares, 512,500 placement units for $5,125,000, and may receive up to $500,000 in repayment of loans and up to $2,500,000 in additional compensation in connection with a business combination.
Beyond his SPAC role, Gilliam is best known as Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Ten31, a venture capital firm focused on Bitcoin infrastructure and Bitcoin-native startup investing from pre-seed through Series B. Ten31 manages the Low Time Preference Funds and most recently raised $37.5 million for Fund III. Gilliam has been a prominent voice in the Bitcoin ecosystem, contributing articles to Bitcoin Magazine and coining the term "sats flows" to describe the concept of satoshis flowing back to investors through Bitcoin-denominated investment returns. He has appeared on podcasts and at industry events discussing Bitcoin investment strategy, the concept of investing under a Bitcoin standard, and the thesis that investing in Bitcoin companies is a viable path for generating BTC exposure.
Prior to founding Ten31, Gilliam spent nearly 13 years at CVC Capital Partners, a major global private markets asset manager, most recently serving as a Director. Bloomberg also lists him as a Director at CVC Advisers Ltd. Over his private equity career, he was involved in approximately $3 billion of equity deployed across transactions. His transition from traditional large-cap private equity at one of Europe's leading buyout firms to Bitcoin-native venture capital represents a notable pivot into the digital assets space, where he has focused on early-stage Bitcoin infrastructure companies.
Gilliam's SEC filings list his mailing address as Nashville, Tennessee, while his LinkedIn profile indicates a location in Georgetown, Texas. He also holds a role as Technical Director for Combat Sambo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, reflecting an interest outside of finance. At BTC Development Corp., insider filings as of September 30, 2025 show Gilliam holding zero shares directly and zero shares indirectly as of his Form 3 filing, consistent with his independent director status and his indirect sponsor interest structure. No insider purchase or sale transactions have been recorded for Gilliam at BTC Development Corp. to date.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0002087143 — the identifier this person files under in their own name. Every vehicle above is a filing made under that CIK, so “the same person on two shells” is a fact about an SEC identifier rather than about a name that happens to match.
Roles are the strings the filings used, in the order they were filed. Nothing on this page ranks them, infers seniority, or offers a reason why any two of these names recur — a recurrence is a count, and the filings that produced it are linked beside every row. We also hold 11 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 6 distinct name strings, and none of them is counted across vehicles: that table has no CIK column, and matching holders by name would merge firms that are not the same firm.