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Illia Polosukhin

Co-Founder at NEAR Protocol

Details

Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR, is building a sharded blockchain protocol with usability. He also currently serves as a consultant to Ringfence. He previously worked on the MemSQL, Google AI, and Tensorflow teams. While at Google, he was a major contributor to TensorFlow and led the team that produced Q&A solutions for core Google search. He is passionate about machine intelligence and natural language processing and is a former ICPC finalist.

Investments

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Token Issuance
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Operating Status
Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Lens Protocol Lens Protocol
-- -- $ 31 M
Dec 18, 2024
Fraction AI Fraction AI
Pre-Seed -- $ 6 M
Dec 18, 2024
Pond Pond
Seed -- $ 7.5 M
Nov 07, 2024
OpenGradient OpenGradient
Seed -- $ 8.5 M
Oct 09, 2024
PIN AI PIN AI
Pre-Seed -- $ 10 M
Sep 10, 2024
Fabric Cryptography Fabric Cryptography
Series A -- $ 33 M
Aug 19, 2024
MyShell MyShell
Pre-A -- $ 11 M
Mar 27, 2024
Calimero Calimero
Seed -- $ 8.5 M
Jan 23, 2023
Bastion Bastion
Seed -- --
Mar 23, 2022
Ceramic Network Ceramic Network
Series A -- $ 30 M
Feb 16, 2022
Solace Solace
Seed $ 30 M $ 1.14 M
Oct 06, 2021
ClayStack ClayStack
Seed -- $ 5.2 M
Jul 13, 2021
Syndicate Syndicate
-- -- $ 0.8 M
Jun 30, 2021
Zecrey Zecrey
Seed -- $ 1.5 M
Jun 02, 2021
KYVE KYVE
Pre-Seed -- $ 1 M
Jun, 2021
SEDA SEDA
Seed -- $ 10.3 M
May 20, 2021
1inch 1inch
Seed $ 15 M $ 2.8 M
Aug 11, 2020

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