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Jia Yaoqi

Founder & CEO at AltLayer

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Jia Yaoqi is the Founder and CEO of AltLayer. He is also the Co-founder and Advisor of Zilliqa. Previously, he led the development and advocacy of technologies such as Substrate and Polkadot, and grew the developer community. Jia Yaoqi graduated from the National University of Singapore.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Makina Makina
Strategic -- $ 3 M
Jun 25
Edgen Edgen
Strategic -- $ 6 M
Jul 25, 2024
Lombard Lombard
Seed -- $ 16 M
Jul 02, 2024
MilkyWay MilkyWay
Seed -- $ 5 M
Apr 30, 2024
Movement Movement
Series A -- $ 38 M
Apr 25, 2024
NEBRA NEBRA
Seed -- $ 4.5 M
Apr 17, 2024
Puffer Finance Puffer Finance
Series A $ 200 M $ 18 M
Apr 16, 2024
MyShell MyShell
Pre-A -- $ 11 M
Mar 27, 2024
Clique Clique
Series A -- $ 8 M
Mar 14, 2024
Firewall Firewall
Pre-Seed -- $ 3.7 M
Mar 07, 2024
Babylon Babylon
Series A -- $ 18 M
Dec 07, 2023

Investment Overview

Rounds in the past year

1

Total rounds

11

Portfolio Numbers

11

Lead Investment

0

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