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Rene Reinsberg

Founder at Celo

Details

Rene Reinsberg is a co-founder of Celo and currently President of the Celo Foundation. Celo's layer-1 blockchain is at the center of an ecosystem of technologies, organizations and individuals that all share a common mission of building a regenerative financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity for everyone. Previously, he co-founded Locu (aquired by GoDaddy). Rene started his career in global capital markets at Morgan Stanley and also worked at McKinsey, the World Bank, TechnoServe and General Catalyst. He holds graduate degrees from Germany's WHU and MIT.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Predicate Predicate
-- -- $ 7 M
Oct 15, 2024
Fountain Fountain
Seed -- $ 3.5 M
Sep 10, 2024
Para Para
-- -- --
Mar 14, 2023
ValuesCo ValuesCo
Seed -- $ 2.7 M
Jan 26, 2023
Bitmama Bitmama
Pre-Seed -- $ 2 M
Sep 13, 2022
Ika Ika
Seed -- $ 5 M
Aug 18, 2022
EtherMail EtherMail
Seed -- $ 3 M
Aug 11, 2022
Canza Finance Canza Finance
Seed -- $ 3.27 M
Mar 22, 2022
Payourse Payourse
Pre-Seed -- $ 0.6 M
Dec 01, 2021
Kresko Kresko
Seed -- $ 2.35 M
Oct 06, 2021

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Relevance Person

William Le

William Le is currently a Founder&CEO at Haraka.Previously he worked at Celo and impactMarket. He graduated from University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Santhosh Narayan

Santhosh Narayan is the co-founder of Hyperspace and previously worked at Morgan Stanley. He graduated from MIT.

Marek Olszewski

Marek Olszewski is a co-founder and CTO at Celo and the President at Valora. Earlier, he co-founded Locu, a machine learning venture-backed company that was acquired by GoDaddy. He is also an MIT PhD alumni and a former Facebook Fellow and has previously worked at Google, Microsoft Research and Sun Labs.

Lee Mount

Lee Mount is a principal software engineer at Euler Finance after previously working at Morgan Stanley. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Anna Kazlauskas

Anna Kaz is the co-founder and CEO of Vana and previously worked as an engineer at Celo. She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jaclyn Ding

Jaclyn Ding is the co-founder and CFO of Web3Port and previously worked at Alumni Ventures, Cloud 9 Capital, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and HSBC. He has extensive experience in venture capital and private equity. He has an MBA from MIT and a BA in International Economics from Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Yida Gao

Yida Gao is a General Partner at Shima Capital. Also serves as a member of the Open Campus (EDU) committee,Previously, he was a General Partner at Divergence Digital Currency and Struck Capital. He was also a technology investor at NEA, one of the world's largest VC funds with over $20 billion in AUM. Before that, Yida was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group in New York City, where he helped execute deals worth a total of $15 billion. Yida graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science, and was a varsity pole vaulter. He attended Stanford GSB for a brief period before dropping out to join Struck Capital.

SJ Oh

Oh Seung Joon is a Co-Founder and COO of Pow.re, a position he has held on a full-time basis since November 2019. Prior to that, he worked as the Director and Head of Custody and Prime Sales at OSL, and as a VP Trader for 1 year and 8 months. He has also held positions as a Sales Trader at Morgan Stanley and CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. Oh Seung Joon holds a BBA in Finance and Marketing from Korea University.

Max Resnick

Max Resnick is currently a technologist at Anza. He previously worked at ConsenSys and has extensive experience in developing within the Ethereum ecosystem.

Ronson Chau​

Ronson Chau is the Co-Founder and CEO of BULB. Previously, he worked at Morgan Stanley.