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Illia Polosukhin

Co-Founder at NEAR Protocol

Details

Illia Polosukhin is currently the Co-Founder and CTO of NEAR Protocol, a sharded mobile-first blockchain protocol. Illia is passionate about Machine Intelligence and Natural Language Understanding and is committed to making the world a better place through software and data.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Seed -- $ 8.5 M
Jan 23, 2023
Seed -- --
Mar 23, 2022
Series A -- $ 30 M
Feb 16, 2022
Seed $ 30 M $ 1.14 M
Oct 06, 2021
Seed -- $ 5.2 M
Jul 13, 2021
-- -- $ 0.8 M
Jul 01, 2021
Seed -- $ 1.5 M
Jun 02, 2021
Pre-Seed -- $ 1 M
Jun, 2021
Seed -- $ 10.3 M
May 20, 2021
Seed $ 15 M $ 2.8 M
Aug 11, 2020

Investment Overview

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Relevance Person

Maksym Zavershynskyi

Maksym Zavershynskyi is former Vice President of Engineering at NEAR. Maksym Zavershynskyi has more than 10 years of industry experience, most recently at Google where he worked on applied Machine Learning.

Ronny Conway

Ronny Conway is the Founder & General Partner at A.Capital. Prior to starting A.Capital, Ronny was one of the first Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, where he was the head of seed and early-stage investing and was involved in such high profile investments as Airbnb, Instagram, Optimizely, Pinterest, Dollar Shave Club and Twitter. Before a16z, Ronny spent six years at Google, and was one of the first employees at Google Ventures. Ronny has spent most of his life around venture capital, and received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA.

Arran Schlosberg

Arran Schlosberg was the VP of Engineering at Proof Holdings. Presively, he worked at HealthMatch and Google. Arran Schlosberg graduated from University of Sydney and University of Cambridge.

Alex Skidanov

Alex Skidanov is the Co-Founder of NEAR. He previously worked for Microsoft and was the first engineer to join MemSQL. He was involved in writing and constructing the world's fastest distributed relational database, which has been used by Uber, Goldman Sachs, Sony, and Intel, among others.

Yurii Kyparus

Yurii Kyparus is the Co-Founder of Wallchain. He has a background of Google and Meta.

Stephen Tse

Stephen Tse is the Founder and CEO of Harmony. He sold one of his startups to Apple and worked on infrastructure projects at Google. Stephen has raised $18 million in seed round funding and built a top-level engineering team to develop the next generation of high-performance blockchain protocols.

Michelle Latzer

Michelle Latzer is the Co-Founder & CEO of Tweed. Previously, she worked in Google's tech infrastructure. Michelle Latzer graduated from Columbia University.

Jackie Bona

Jackie Bona is the CEO of Valora, a mobile-first crypto wallet whose mission is to unlock access to financial opportunity for people around the world. She has spent the last 15 years of her career in product marketing and GTM leadership roles at various global technology companies such as Spotify, Twitter, and Google. Jackie is passionate about financial inclusion and believes that blockchain technology has the potential to provide new economic opportunities to those who would not typically have access.

Mike Belshe

Mike Belshe is the co-founder and CEO of BitGo. He previously created the world's first multi-signature web wallet for Bitcoin, and was one of the top 10 engineers on the Google Chrome team.

2PMFLOW

2PMFLOW is an Azuki co-founder and engineer who worked at Google and Y-Combinator.