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Anatoly Yakovenko

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Co-Founder and CEO at Solana

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Anatoly Yakovenko is Co-Founder and CEO of Solana. He has over 10 years of experience in developing high-performance operating systems, and is a world-class underwater hockey player. He is an alumnus of Qualcomm, Mesosphere, Dropbox, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Investments

Tag
Ecosystem
Token Issuance
Region
Operating Status
Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Ryder Ryder
Seed -- $ 3.2 M
Oct 17
Inference Inference
Seed -- $ 11.8 M
Oct 15
BULK BULK
Seed -- $ 8 M
Sep 24
Titan Titan
Seed -- $ 7 M
Sep 18
Vanish Vanish
Seed -- $ 1 M
Aug 22
Trends Trends
-- -- --
Jul 17
ZAR ZAR
Seed -- $ 7 M
Apr 30
Magicblock Magicblock
Seed -- $ 7.5 M
Apr 24
Ambient Ambient
Seed -- $ 7.3 M
Mar 31
DoubleZero DoubleZero
-- $ 400 M $ 28 M
Mar 05
BitRobot BitRobot
Seed -- $ 6 M
Feb 14
Merit Systems Merit Systems
Seed -- $ 10 M
Jan 16
OpenDelta OpenDelta
-- -- --
Nov 27, 2024
Pulse Pulse
Pre-Seed -- $ 1.8 M
Nov 14, 2024
Fragmetric Fragmetric
Angel -- --
Nov 04, 2024
Atlas Atlas
-- -- $ 21 M
Oct 31, 2024
Pulse Pulse
-- -- --
Oct 24, 2024
Blockcast Blockcast
Seed -- $ 2.85 M
Oct 15, 2024
MeshMap MeshMap
-- -- $ 4 M
Sep 27, 2024
ZAR ZAR
-- -- --
Sep 25, 2024

Investment Overview

Rounds in the past year

14

Total rounds

53

Portfolio Numbers

52

Lead Investment

0

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