Sreeram Kannan

Founder at EigenLayer

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Sreeram Kannan is an information scientist, entrepreneur, and associate professor at the University of Washington. He is the founder of Eigenlayer and has expertise in information sciences and its applications in blockchains, AI, wireless, and computational biology. Sreeram earned his Ph.D. in information theory of wireless networks and distributed computation from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has also completed internships at Qualcomm and Microsoft, and holds a Master of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Work Experience

Investments

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Token Issuance
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Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Strategic -- --
Sep 03
Series A -- $ 33 M
Aug 19
Strategic -- $ 6 M
Jul 25
Seed -- $ 8 M
Jul 02
Seed -- $ 12.5 M
Jul 02
Seed -- $ 20 M
Jun 27
Series A -- $ 37 M
Jun 25
Series A -- $ 38 M
Apr 25
Seed -- $ 2.6 M
Apr 15
Series A -- $ 43 M
Mar 21
Series A -- $ 20 M
Jan 25
Seed -- $ 5.5 M
Nov 08, 2023
Pre-Seed -- $ 2 M
Aug 15, 2023
Seed -- $ 5.5 M
Aug 08, 2023
Series A -- $ 12 M
Jul 11, 2023
Seed -- $ 4.2 M
Apr 26, 2023
Seed -- $ 7.39 M
Jan 30, 2023

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Vyas Krishnan

Vyas Krishnan is a Product Lead at EigenLayer with experience in programming, entrepreneurship, and financial services. He previously worked as a Product Owner at Nium and founded a subscription-based catering company. He has also interned at US Foods, where he designed and implemented a prototype infrastructure using TensorFlow, engineered scalable cloud ETL processes, and migrated legacy database solutions to modern cloud architecture. Vyas has a background in business strategy and has conducted exploratory data analysis and developed scoring models as an undergraduate researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Will Reeves

Will Reeves is the CEO and co-founder of Fold, and was previously the Head of Payments at Thesis. He is a graduate of UCLA and UC Berkeley.

Jon Jones

Jon Jones is the Co-Founder of Supra. He is also involved in web3 venture studio Unitychain, where he co-founded and helped launch several blockchain projects in the region. Previously, he was the president of the Taiwan chapter of the Government Blockchain Association, where he advocated for the strategic advancement of blockchain technology in the government and corporate sector.

Bob Xu

Bob Xu is the founder of Questflow and was previously Director of Product Management for Himalaya. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University.

Gajesh Naik

Gajesh Naik is a senior software engineer at Eigen Labs and previously a software engineer at LayerZero. He is also an angel investor.

Ishaan Hiranandani

Ishaan Hiranandani is Strategy Lead at EigenLayer and was previously a product manager at jpmorgan Chase andan investor in Jump Crypto. He graduated from the University of Michigan.

Caoimh Conway

Caoimh Conway is a Research Data Engineer at Polychain Capital and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Data Science. Caoimh previously worked as an Emergency Medical Technician for Falcon Ambulance.

Eduard Kotysh

Eduard Kotysh is Founder, CEO at Solidified. Tech executive working on blockchain security and in my free time doing biomedical research in Genetics. Presented at: - Harvard Business School - TechCrunch - Numerous blockchain conferences - Facebook and Amazon Re:Invent

Yijia Chen

Yijia previously led the backend team of Treelab, a Sequoia-backed Series A company. He is now founding Curio, where he is spearheading the development of a new generation of crypto-powered games with massive social UGC.

Niraj Pant

Niraj Pant is the Co-Founder at Ritual. Presively he was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, where he invests in early-stage cryptocurrency projects. Prior to this role, he researched privacy in the Decentralized Systems Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Niraj has also served as a Member of the Board of Directors for CoinDCX, an Ambassador for Sequoia Capital, and Co-Founder and CTO of Source Networks. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.