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Anatoly Yakovenko

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Co-Founder and CEO at Solana

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Anatoly Yakovenko is Co-Founder and CEO of Solana. He has over 10 years of experience in developing high-performance operating systems, and is a world-class underwater hockey player. He is an alumnus of Qualcomm, Mesosphere, Dropbox, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Squads Squads
Strategic -- $ 5.7 M
Oct 16, 2023
Gleen AI Gleen AI
-- -- $ 4.9 M
Sep 05, 2023
DRiP DRiP
Seed -- $ 3 M
Aug 27, 2023
Phoenix Phoenix
Seed -- $ 3.3 M
Aug 18, 2023
Tensor Tensor
-- -- $ 3 M
Mar 07, 2023
sec3 sec3
Seed -- $ 10 M
Jan 31, 2023
Arcium Arcium
Strategic -- $ 3.5 M
Nov 04, 2022
N1 N1
-- -- --
Nov 02, 2022
Jito Jito
Series A -- $ 10 M
Aug 11, 2022
Hivemapper Hivemapper
-- -- $ 18 M
Apr 05, 2022
UXD UXD
Seed $ 30 M $ 3 M
Sep 02, 2021

Investment Overview

Rounds in the past year

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Total rounds

11

Portfolio Numbers

12

Lead Investment

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