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Itamar Lesuisse

Co-Founder and CEO at Argent

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Itamar Lesuisse is the co-founder and CEO of Argent. He was formerly the CEO and founder of Peak, and worked at Visa, Amazon, and BCG. He holds four patents related to payments. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Daylight Daylight
Seed -- $ 3 M
Nov 30, 2022
FANtium FANtium
Pre-Seed -- € 2 M
Oct 11, 2022
Morpho Morpho
Seed -- $ 18 M
Jul 12, 2022
CoW Protocol CoW Protocol
Private -- $ 23 M
Mar 30, 2022
Eternal Dragons / Trailblazer Games Eternal Dragons / Trailblazer Games
-- -- $ 8.2 M
Mar 18, 2022
XMTP XMTP
Series A -- $ 20 M
Sep 01, 2021
Violet Violet
Seed -- $ 3.5 M
Aug 13, 2021

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