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Jinglan Wang

Founder at Optimism

Details

Jinglan Wang is the Co-Founder of Optimism. Previously, she was involved with Handshake, the MIT Bitcoin Club, NASDAQ, and IDEO.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
RISC Zero RISC Zero
Seed $ 75 M $ 12 M
Aug 09, 2022
Socket Socket
Seed -- $ 5 M
Mar 10, 2022
Tenderly Tenderly
Series B -- $ 40 M
Mar 02, 2022
Spearbit Spearbit
Pre-Seed -- $ 1.5 M
Feb, 2022
Goldfinch Goldfinch
Series A1 -- $ 25 M
Jan 07, 2022
Derive Derive
-- -- $ 3.3 M
Jul 26, 2021
Everclear Everclear
Series A -- $ 12 M
Jul 13, 2021
Lido Lido
-- -- $ 73 M
May 05, 2021

Relevance Person

Conner Fromknecht

Conner Fromknecht is Senior Software Engineer at OP Labs. Formerly, Head of Cryptographic Engineering at Lightning Labs, Core Developer at Enigma, Research Assistant at MIT CSAIL.

Arun Devabhaktuni

Arun Devabhaktuni is a professional with a background in systems biology, physics, and biology. He is currently a Lead Researcher at Mirana Ventures and an Angel Investor at Valhalla Capital. He has also served as the Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of ZenMaid Software. Arun has received a PhD in Systems Biology from Stanford University School of Medicine and a BS in Physics and Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dan Elitzer

Dan Elitzer is co-founder at Nascent. Previously, Dan co-founded IDEO CoLab Ventures, a crypto-focused venture firm associated with the renowned design agency, IDEO. During that time, he also helped launch YAM Finance. Dan began his career in social enterprise and microfinance, working with both domestic social impact organizations and international development agencies. Dan earned an MBA from MIT Sloan, where he co-founded the MIT Bitcoin Club and MIT FinTech Club, and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Pomona College.

Theo Diamandis

Theo is pursuing an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD at MIT, where he works on algorithms for and applications of mathematical optimization. These interests inevitably led to him being nerd sniped by Guillermo into working on crypto. When he’s not working on optimization solvers for DeFi-related applications, Theo can be found backpacking or skiing in the California Sierras.

Pierre Samaties

Pierre Samaties is Chief Business Officer at DFINITY. He was the former Partner at Roland Berger leading the Global Digital Assets, Web3 and Metaverse practice and the CEO of energy and innovation specialist RWE Middle East.

Nitya Subramanian

Nitya Subramanian is the founder of Capsule. He was the former product lead of Celo. Nitya Subramanian graduated from MIT.

Paul Grewal

Paul Grewal is Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer.

Dan Stone

Dan Stone is the co-founder and CEO of Icebreaker. He most notably served as a Group Product Manager at Google, where he built Google’s most sophisticated personalized marketing and cross-identity measurement products, Google Analytics and Google Signals, respectively. Prior to co-founding Icebreaker, he served as a Group Product Manager at Coinbase, where he led Consumer Trading, earning a patent for AI-assisted multi-chain intent orchestration. He holds a BS in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ian Hinkley

Ian Hinkley is the Co-Founder and COO of Opdefi. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sonya Kim

Sonya Kim is the Founder of Progrmd Capital, an actively managed, long-term focused liquid token fund. Prior to launching Progrmd, Sonya worked at Aberforth Partners and Kiltearn Partners, privately-owned investment firms in Edinburgh, where she helped manage several billion dollars of institutional client capital in undervalued public equities. Sonya began her career as an Investment Risk Analyst at Baillie Gifford, a global growth investor notable for its successful implementation of the long-term investment philosophy. Sonya holds a Master of Finance from MIT as well as a BA in Mathematics and a minor in Computer Science from NYU.