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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
-- -- $ 33 M
Sep 21, 2023
-- -- --
Mar 14, 2023
-- -- $ 5.3 M
Feb 28, 2023
-- -- $ 8.5 M
Sep 20, 2022
-- -- $ 7 M
Feb 17, 2022
-- -- $ 2.1 M
Jan 26, 2022
-- -- $ 6.75 M
Nov 09, 2021
Series A -- $ 20 M
Sep 01, 2021
Seed -- $ 4 M
Aug 17, 2021
Series A -- $ 21 M
Aug 05, 2021
Series A -- $ 12 M
Jul 15, 2021

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Relevance Person

Nathan McCauley

Nathan McCauley is the co-founder and CEO of Anchorage, a crypto-native digital asset custodian that uses modern security engineering to help institutions safeguard their investments.

Katie Biber

Katie Biber is the Chief Legal Officer at Paradigm, leading the firm's legal, regulatory, compliance and policy functions. Previously, she was Chief Legal Officer of Brex, a fintech startup reimagining financial systems for growing companies. Before Brex, Katie was General Counsel of Anchorage, a digital asset bank and platform, and she has also held leadership roles as General Counsel of Thumbtack and Senior Counsel at Airbnb. Additionally, Katie serves on the boards of directors of Anchorage, Code for America and Protocol Labs. She is a veteran of political campaigns, having served as General Counsel to Romney for President in 2012. Katie holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from George Washington University.

Nicole Zahrah Civitello

Nicole Zahrah Civitello is Head of Investor Relations at Polychain Capital and was previously Head of Investor Relations at Hack VC and Head of Capital Strategy at Anchorage Digital.

Rachel Anderika

Rachel Anderika is Chief Operating Officer at Anchorage

Tricia Lin Collins

Tricia Lin is the Vice President of Research at Blockworks. She was previously the head of listing and research at Binance.US. She was also responsible for investor relations at Shuttle Ventures and private wealth management at Morgan Stanley, with a special focus on UHNW blockchain, artificial intelligence, etc. investment needs. She co-founded GopherCard, a blockchain-based gift mobile application and payment company dedicated to mainstreaming digital assets and mobile/e-commerce.

Akash Khosla

Akash Khosla is the Co-Founder at Evmos, interested in biohacks, design, computers, cryptographic guarantees and data. Previously built protocols at Chain Inc. and did engineering at Earn.com. A former shell of UC Berkeley EECS, Blockchain at Berkeley co-founder.

Nassim Eddequiouaq

Nassim Eddequiouaq is the Co-Founder at Bastion, formerly Chief Information Security Officer at a16z Crypto, a Security Engineer at Docker, and a former Security Intern at Apple. He is a passionate human being with a love for security and graffiti. He enjoys creating security products and features that involve operating systems, cryptography, secure hardware, and distributed systems.

Geoffrey Clauss

Geoffrey Claus is the Chief Revenue Officer of Blockdaemon. Prior to this, he served as the sales manager for Anchorage. Geoffrey Claus graduated from the Business School of Lihai University.

Mark duBose

Mark duBose is Chief Compliance & Risk Officer at Anchorage