RootData 2025 Top 50 VCs & Top 100 Projects Unveiled! [View Details]
API Download the RootData App

Uri Kolodny

Co-Founder and ex-CEO of StarkWare

Details

Uri Kolodny is the Co-Founder and former CEO of StarkWare, where he is working hard to scale blockchains using STARK zero-knowledge proofs. He has also served as an Advisor to Certora, Co-Founder and CEO of Mondria Technologies Ltd., Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Greylock and ICV, and Co-Founder and CEO of Timna. Uri holds a Master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Certora Certora
Series A -- $ 7.2 M
May 21, 2021

Related Figures

Alessandro Chiesa

Alessandro Chiesa is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at StarkWare, Associate Professor at EPFL .

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.

Rodolfo Gonzalez

Rodolfo Gonzalez is the Partner of Foundation Capital. Rodolfo has an MBA from MIT Sloan’s School of Management, with concentrations in finance and entrepreneurship, and degrees in Marketing from ITESM and International Relations from UNAM Mexico.

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.

Sam Fang

Sam Fang is the Chief Financial Officer at Blockstream and holds a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Theo Diamandis

Theo Diamandis is currently the Research Partner at Bain Capital Crypto. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University.

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.

Justin Jow

Justin Jow is Vice President of Finance at Scale AI and previously was Vice President of Finance at OpenSea. He has worked at Uber and Google. He graduated from Harvard University and MIT-Sloan School.

Jean Beaudoin

Jean Beaudoin is the former founder and CEO of Metya. He is a graduate of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Nitya Subramanian

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