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Ryan Selkis

Founder & CEO at Messari

Details

Ryan Selkis is the Founder & ex-CEO of Messari, and was previously an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at ConsenSys and a founding team member at the industry's most active investor, Digital Currency Group, and the largest media brand, CoinDesk. He is also working on new ventures and angel investing.

Investments

Tag
Ecosystem
Token Issuance
Region
Operating Status
Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Acctual Acctual
Seed $ 15 M $ 3.85 M
Nov 29, 2023
lon Protocol lon Protocol
Pre-Seed -- $ 2 M
Jul 14, 2023
Alluvial Alluvial
Series A -- $ 12 M
Jul 11, 2023
Leo Wallet Leo Wallet
Pre-Seed -- $ 4.5 M
Jun 02, 2023
Gateway Gateway
Seed -- $ 4.2 M
Jan 19, 2023
Sepana Sepana
-- -- $ 10 M
Nov 08, 2022
WalletConnect WalletConnect
-- -- $ 12.5 M
Nov 03, 2022
Spindl Spindl
Seed -- $ 7 M
Oct 20, 2022
Nxyz Nxyz
Series A -- $ 40 M
Oct 13, 2022
Lit Protocol Lit Protocol
Series A -- $ 13 M
Sep 23, 2022
Magna Magna
Seed $ 70 M $ 15 M
Sep 15, 2022
Synquote Synquote
Seed -- $ 2.8 M
Sep 14, 2022
Quadrata Quadrata
Seed -- $ 7.5 M
Jul 12, 2022
AltLayer AltLayer
Seed -- $ 7.2 M
Jul 01, 2022
Lighthouse Lighthouse
Seed -- $ 7 M
May 11, 2022
Bastion Bastion
Series A $ 40 M $ 9 M
Apr 22, 2022
Dfns Dfns
Seed -- $ 13.5 M
Apr 13, 2022
Diagonal Diagonal
Pre-Seed -- $ 2.5 M
Mar 04, 2022
Multis Multis
-- -- $ 7 M
Feb 17, 2022
Ceramic Network Ceramic Network
Series A -- $ 30 M
Feb 16, 2022

Investment Overview

Rounds in the past year

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Total rounds

38

Portfolio Numbers

38

Lead Investment

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Relevance Person

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.

Mason Nystrom

Mason is a junior partner at Pantera Capital and was previously an Investment partner at Variant and Senior Research Analyst at Messari. Before Messari, Mason worked at ConsenSys as a Content Marketer focused on marketing strategy for ConsenSys and its portfolio companies. Mason first entered the crypto industry as an Analyst at Gatecoin, the first cryptocurrency exchange to list ether, Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency. Mason obtained his Master’s in Business Management at Hong Kong Baptist University.

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.