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Michael Egorov

Founder at Curve

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Michael Egorov is the CEO of Curve Finance and co-founder and CTO of NuCypher. Prior to launching NuCypher, Michael worked on infrastructure tools at LinkedIn, where he encountered some of the most difficult scaling issues in the world. He has experience as a scientist and physicist, specializing in a field closely related to quantum computing and cryptography. Michael was a bronze medalist in the 2003 International Physics Olympiad and graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Napier Napier
Pre-Seed -- $ 1 M
Nov 13, 2023
Zunami Protocol Zunami Protocol
Angel -- --
Sep 27, 2023
Conic Finance Conic Finance
-- $ 17 M $ 1 M
Jul 30, 2023
Sunscreen Sunscreen
Seed -- $ 4.65 M
Jul 18, 2022
Velora Velora
Seed Plus -- $ 3 M
May 10, 2021

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