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Gavin Wood

Founder at Polkadot

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Gavin Wood, a London-based blockchain expert, is the founder of Parity Technologies, a company that develops cutting-edge blockchain applications. Gavin is widely recognized as one of the co-founders of Ethereum, having coded its first functional implementation. He is also the co-founder of Grid Singularity, a company that aims to develop a decentralized energy management platform. Gavin is passionate about all things Web 3.0 and has dedicated his career to advancing the field of blockchain technology.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
-- -- $ 6 M
Dec 13, 2022
Seed -- $ 7.2 M
Jul 01, 2022
-- -- $ 10 M
May 13, 2022
Strategic -- $ 22 M
Jan 28, 2022

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Dan Reecer

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Charles Hoskinson

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Jan Xie

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