Chris Kalani

Details

Chris Kalani is CPO & Co-founder at Phantom, Product designer & entrepreneur living in San Francisco. Formerly, Started and led the Matcha team, Director of Design at 0x. He was the founder and CEO of Wake. He started his career at Jive Software nearly 10 years ago. He later worked for various agencies where he focused on building products for companies like Microsoft and Nike. Before starting Wake, Chris was a designer at Facebook where he worked on the growth and engagement team, graph search and Messenger.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Seed -- $ 9.5 M
May 12, 2023
  • 1
Total 1 Page

Relevance Person

Kevin Li

Kevin Li is the Co-Founder & CEO at Goldsky. Presively he worked as Engineering Manager at 0x Labs. Before that Kevin Li worked at Facebook and Google.

Tom Schmidt

Tom Schmidt is a Partner at Dragonfly Capital. Previously, he was a Product at 0x Project, a Product Manager for Ads at Facebook and Instagram, and an Engineer at Apple and Stanford CS.

Michael Zhu

Michael Zhu is a research engineer for a16z crypto, writing open-source code in collaboration with the research team and helping portfolio companies on all things smart contract-related. Prior to joining a16z crypto, Michael led protocol development at 0x Labs, architecting smart contracts to facilitate peer-to-peer trading on multiple blockchains. Before that, he was a student at Stanford University, where he received BS and MS degrees in Computer Science.

Maximiliano Torres

Maximiliano Torres is former Head of Finance at 0x. He left 0x in April 2022 but continued supporting web3 builders through angel investments and advising in companies, such as Aleph Zero, AngelBlock, dBloks, Delta Prime, Safary Club, and Thaw Digital. His goal is to bridge Silicon Valley's capital with promising web3 founders in LATAM, supporting those who are creating disruptive and sustainable products. Currently, he is a mentor at Rayo Capital, a LATAM-focused web3 fund.

Guillermo Angeris

Guillermo is a Stanford lifer (BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering). He spends most of his work time in a dark corner of a room, figuring out random math problems for fun. He also loves to work with teams to model many of the weird (and fascinating) incentives in DeFi and beyond. Outside of work, Guillermo likes to cook pizza, hike, and have long, silly conversations with friends over wine.

Abhinav Vora

Abhinav Vora is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperline. He was previously the head of engineering at Lyft Pink and a software engineer at Meta and Microsoft. He graduated from RMIT University.

Sahil Thaker

Sahil Thaker is the co-founder of Hyperline and previously worked at Microsoft, Uber, and Meta. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oakland.

Mind Apivessa

Mind Apivessa is the co-founder of Station Labs, previously held positions at Meta and IBM. He graduated from Cornell University in the United States.

Yurii Kyparus

Yurii Kyparus is the Co-Founder of Wallchain. He has a background of Google and Meta.

Gina Moon

Gina Moon is the General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at OpenSea. Presively she worked at Facebook and Uber. Gina Moon graduated from Columbia Law School.