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Diogo Monica

Co-Founder and President at Anchorage

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Diogo Mónica is the Co-Founder and President of Anchorage. Anchorage brings the world’s most advanced and proven security architecture to cryptocurrency custody, to deliver the services institutions expect from a traditional custodian.Before founding Anchorage, he was security lead at Docker, an open platform for building, shipping and running distributed applications. While at Docker he worked on the security foundations of the container and orchestration subsystems that are now used as core building blocks of modern IT infrastructure worldwide.Diogo Monica was an early employee at Square where he led the platform security team and built the security infrastructure used by Square to move over $80B in annualized volume. He has a BSc, MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science has published several papers in peer-reviewed security conferences on the topic of distributed systems and information security, and is the author of several patents in secure communications, encrypted hardware, and payment systems.Diogo Monica is a sought-after public speaker having keynotes, lectures and technical briefings on the topics of usable security, infrastructure security, and distributed systems security. He is also an angel investor and an advisor and board member to numerous startups.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Proof of Play Proof of Play
-- -- $ 33 M
Sep 21, 2023
Para Para
-- -- --
Mar 14, 2023
Portal Portal
-- -- $ 5.3 M
Feb 28, 2023
Integral Integral
-- -- $ 8.5 M
Sep 20, 2022
Multis Multis
-- -- $ 7 M
Feb 17, 2022
impactMarket impactMarket
-- -- $ 2.1 M
Jan 26, 2022
Spectral Spectral
-- -- $ 6.75 M
Nov 09, 2021
XMTP XMTP
Series A -- $ 20 M
Sep 01, 2021
Ondo Finance Ondo Finance
Seed -- $ 4 M
Aug 17, 2021
Messari Messari
Series A -- $ 21 M
Aug 05, 2021
Blocknative Blocknative
Series A -- $ 12 M
Jul 15, 2021

Investment Overview

Rounds in the past year

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Total rounds

11

Portfolio Numbers

11

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