Justin Drake

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Justin lives in Cambridge, UK where he studied mathematics. He founded the Cambridge Bitcoin Meetup group in 2013, and in 2014 left his job as a programmer and FPGA engineer to study the blockchain space. In 2015 he operated a Bitcoin ATM and started a company providing a web interface for OpenBazaar. He is now a researcher for the Ethereum Foundation focusing on sharding.

Education Experience

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Seed -- $ 2 M
Mar 14
Seed -- $ 5 M
Apr 13, 2023
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