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Roham Gharegozlou

Founder & CEO at Dapper Labs

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Roham Gharegozlou is the Founder and CEO of Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties and upcoming projects such as NBA Top Shot and the Flow blockchain. He was formerly the CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio based in Vancouver, BC, that created ZenHub, Routific, Timeline, and more. He is an investor and advisor to several great startups, was a former VC, and is an unwavering optimist. His interests are focused on entrepreneurship, technology, bio-medicine, and economic development.

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Investments

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OpenSocial OpenSocial
Seed -- $ 5 M
May 27, 2024
Movement Movement
Series A -- $ 38 M
Apr 24, 2024
Bastion Bastion
Seed -- $ 25 M
Sep 17, 2023
Story Protocol Story Protocol
Series A -- $ 25 M
Sep 05, 2023
Cymbal Cymbal
-- -- $ 18 M
Jul 20, 2023
Integral Integral
-- -- $ 8.5 M
Sep 19, 2022
Tally Labs Tally Labs
Seed -- $ 12 M
May 18, 2022
LayerZero LayerZero
Series A1 $ 1 B $ 135 M
Mar 29, 2022
Recall Recall
Series A -- $ 30 M
Feb 15, 2022
Eternal Eternal
-- -- $ 4.5 M
Sep 28, 2021
XMTP XMTP
Series A -- $ 20 M
Aug 31, 2021
Magic Magic
Series A -- $ 27 M
Jul 22, 2021
Ramp Network Ramp Network
Seed -- $ 10 M
Jun 15, 2021
NFTG NFTG
Seed -- $ 4 M
Jun 14, 2021
Blocto Blocto
Private $ 50 M $ 8 M
May 21, 2021
RTFKT RTFKT
-- -- $ 8 M
May 05, 2021
Magic Magic
Seed -- $ 4 M
Jun 02, 2020

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Gary

Gary is the Managing Partner at Momentum Capital. Gary is a Silicon Valley-based investor, a serial entrepreneur, a Stanford-affiliated researcher, and a true believer in Web3. Gary has over six years of experience in blockchain technology and is currently focusing on scaling, DID, and liquidity solutions. Gary finished his Ph.D. and postdoc research at Stanford University before transitioning into the industry.

John Lilly

John Lilly is the Board Member at Figma.He spents the past 30 years working at and investing in technology companies that help people create & connect -- Mozilla, Apple, Instagram, Duolingo, Figma, Dropbox, Tumblr & more. He also spent a lot of time helping non-profit and civic tech organizations like Code for America, VotingWorks and Daffy.org.

Arun Devabhaktuni

Arun Devabhaktuni is a professional with a background in systems biology, physics, and biology. He is currently a Lead Researcher at Mirana Ventures and an Angel Investor at Valhalla Capital. He has also served as the Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of ZenMaid Software. Arun has received a PhD in Systems Biology from Stanford University School of Medicine and a BS in Physics and Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Guillermo Angeris

Guillermo is a Stanford lifer (BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering). He spends most of his work time in a dark corner of a room, figuring out random math problems for fun. He also loves to work with teams to model many of the weird (and fascinating) incentives in DeFi and beyond. Outside of work, Guillermo likes to cook pizza, hike, and have long, silly conversations with friends over wine.

Patrick O'Grady

Patrick O'Grady is the founder of commonware and was previously VP of Engineering at Avalanche and a software engineer at Coinbase. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer science from Stanford University.

Robin Linus

Robin Linus is a core contributor to ZeroSync and the creator of BitVM.org.

Mandy Campbell

Mandy leads Bain Capital Crypto’s and portfolio marketing efforts across brand, content, events, and communications. Before joining the Bain team, she led Marketing for global crypto exchange Okcoin and managed fast-growing teams at companies like GitHub, Lyft, and Meta. When she’s not helping builders, she’s hiking with her family or searching for carrot cake in the Bay Area.

Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington is the Founder of TechCrunch, CrunchBase and Arrington Capital.

Theo Diamandis

Theo is pursuing an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD at MIT, where he works on algorithms for and applications of mathematical optimization. These interests inevitably led to him being nerd sniped by Guillermo into working on crypto. When he’s not working on optimization solvers for DeFi-related applications, Theo can be found backpacking or skiing in the California Sierras.

Krish Chelikavada

Krish Chelikavada is the Co-Founder and CEO of 0xPass, a Venture Capital Fellow of DECODE, a Course Assistant at Stanford University, a Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford, a Product Manager at Microsoft, and a Software Engineer at Oracle. He holds a Master's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business.