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Austin Federa

Head of Strategy at Solana

Details

Austin Federa is director of strategy at the Solana Foundation and formerly worked at Bison Trails.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Seed -- $ 3.4 M
Oct 24
-- -- --
Sep 25
Pre-Seed -- $ 2 M
Aug 06
-- -- $ 9 M
Jul 09
Pre-Seed -- $ 3 M
Jul 04
Strategic -- $ 5.5 M
May 09
Seed -- $ 5 M
May 01
Series A $ 1 B $ 50 M
Mar 11
Seed -- $ 3 M
Aug 27, 2023
Series A -- $ 10 M
Aug 11, 2022

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Relevance Person

Meghan Hughes

Meghan Hughes is the Chief Marketing Officer of Matter Labs and was previously Vice President of Marketing at the Solana Foundation. She graduated from Simmons University.

Matt Sorg

Matt Sorg is Vice President of technology at Solana and was previously a data scientist at Riot Games and co-founder of Concha Labs. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Washington.

Gajesh Naik

Gajesh Naik is a senior software engineer at Eigen Labs and previously a software engineer at LayerZero. He is also an angel investor.

Yao Ding

Yao Ding is Solana's Growth Manager and previously worked at Bybit, Amazon, Volkswagen and Fosun Group.

Aaron Henshaw

Aaron Henshaw is a co-founder and application engineer of Grand St., leading engineering for Maker Innovation at Etsy. He is skilled in handling back-ends and making websites look exactly like they are designed. He often brings a sense of humour to the workplace by remarking, “I don't know if I'm looking at the test build or your Illustrator file.” Aaron has brought a sense of beach chillax and warm sunshine from Miami. He is a renowned chef in the office, hosting numerous dinner feasts for friends and families. He is good at all sports except for pool (which is shocking!), and claims he could easily beat Dustin at ping pong. He is passionate about kale juice and Brooklyn Kitchen, and even the cops love his parties when they show up. Specialties: Software, Web Technologies, Mobile, Programming Languages, Economics, Social Media, Game Design, Technology, Basketball.

Alexander Kehaya

Alexander Kehaya is director of network infrastructure at Solana Foundation and host of The Index Podcast.

Haichao Zhu

Haichao Zhu is the co-founder of Rooch Network and has worked on Algorand, Solana and other projects.

Anna Yuan

Anna Yuan is the co-founder of Perena and was previously the head of stablecoin at Solana. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Jarry Xiao

Jarry Xiao is a co-founder of Phoenix and was previously an engineer at Solana and Citadel Securities. He graduated from the School of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

Amber Christiansen

Amber Christiansen is Anza's Chief operating Officer and was previously Head of operations at Solana Labs. She previously worked at Wells Fargo.