Fernando Martinelli

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Fernando Martinelli is the Co-founder and CEO of Balancer Labs. Balancer is a non-custodial portfolio manager, liquidity provider, and price sensor.

Work Experience

Balancer

Cofounder, CEO

Investments

Lido

Liquid staking solution

Morpho

Decentralized lending-borrowing protocol

Zerion

NFT & DeFi portfolio tracker

CoW Protocol

DEX Aggregator

Swell Network

Liquid ETH staking protocol

Gyroscope

Self-stable, reserve-backed stablecoin protocol

DELV

An open source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets

XMTP

The communication protocol and network for Web3 and crypto

Zaros

LST derivatives protocol

Term Finance

Fixed rate lending on-chain at scale

Coinshift

Treasury management and infrastructure platform

Ntropika Labs

Research and Development team specializing in Web3

PrimeDAO

Next-generation coordination tools for DAO

Nftychat

Web3’s home to chat, discuss, and connect

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Name	Round	Valuation	Amount	Date
Zaros	--	$ 9.9 M	$ 0.54 M	Aug 17, 2023
Term Finance	Seed	--	$ 2.5 M	Feb 28, 2023
Morpho	Seed	--	$ 18 M	Jul 12, 2022
CoW Protocol	Private	--	$ 23 M	Mar 30, 2022
Nftychat	--	--	$ 1 M	Mar 29, 2022
Swell Network	Seed	--	$ 3.75 M	Mar 14, 2022
Ntropika Labs	--	--	$ 12 M	Feb 14, 2022
Gyroscope	Seed	--	$ 4.5 M	Jan, 2022
DELV	Series A	$ 320 M	$ 32 M	Oct 20, 2021
Coinshift	Seed	--	$ 2.5 M	Sep 30, 2021
PrimeDAO	Seed	--	$ 2 M	Sep 15, 2021
XMTP	Series A	--	$ 20 M	Sep 01, 2021
Zerion	Series A	--	$ 8.2 M	Jul 07, 2021
Lido	--	--	$ 73 M	May 05, 2021

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Bianca Andreea Buzea

Bianca Andreea Buzea is the head of developer relations at LUKSO and the founder of DevRel Uni. She is a graduate of the University of Strathclyde and the Technical University of Munich.

Fabien Marino

Fabien Marino is Founder and CEO at Snapshot Labs, Builder at Balancer.

Maria Magenes

Maria Magenes is the Marketing Lead at Summer.fi . Formerly, Community Lead Europe & Africa at MakerDAO, Head Of Marketing at Aave.