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Gavin Wood

Founder at Polkadot

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Gavin Wood, a London-based blockchain expert, is the founder of Parity Technologies, a company that develops cutting-edge blockchain applications. Gavin is widely recognized as one of the co-founders of Ethereum, having coded its first functional implementation. He is also the co-founder of Grid Singularity, a company that aims to develop a decentralized energy management platform. Gavin is passionate about all things Web 3.0 and has dedicated his career to advancing the field of blockchain technology.

Education Experience

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Redpill Redpill
Seed -- $ 5 M
Jul 24, 2024
Tanssi Network Tanssi Network
Strategic -- $ 6 M
Mar 21, 2024
Zama Zama
Series A -- $ 73 M
Mar 07, 2024
Public Pressure Public Pressure
-- -- $ 6 M
Dec 13, 2022
AltLayer AltLayer
Seed -- $ 7.2 M
Jul 01, 2022
Satori Satori
Seed -- $ 10 M
May 13, 2022
Astar Astar
Strategic -- $ 22 M
Jan 28, 2022
Followers 434.88 K
Following 168
Top Followers
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Anthony Spezzano

Anthony Spezzano is Head of Growth at init4, a former ecosystem builder at Hyperlane, Head of BD at Abacus Works, and a former Lead Portfolio Analyst at Figment. He is a graduate of York University in Canada.

Josie Rao

Josie Rao is the CFO/COO at Synergis Capital. She graduated from York University, Canada.

Geoffrey Richards

Geoffrey Richards is the Europe Ecosystem Lead at Ontology and previously was Head of marketing at Bluejay Finance. He graduated from the University of York and Bangor University in the United Kingdom.

Lucy Coulden

Lucy Coulden is Polkadot's Global Program Director.

Adrian Brink

Adrian Brink is a Co-Founder of Cryptium Labs & Anoma Network.He is also a Web3 Foundation developer, Cosmos and Tendermint core developer.

Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin is a Russian-born Canadian programmer and writer who is best known as one of the co-founders of Ethereum. He became involved with cryptocurrency early on, co-founding Bitcoin Magazine in 2011.

Urban Osvald

Urban Osvald is the head of Operations at Wormhole, having previously been the Developer Relations and Engagement Team Lead at Parity Technologies, and he also served as a growth manager at the Web3 Foundation. He is a graduate of Hult International Business School and the University of Ljubljana.

Chris Li

Chris Li is the co-founder and CEO of Ava Protocol and was previously a smart contract expert at Block.one. Before founding Ava Protocol, Chris Li built a strong foundation as a Messaging Protocol Engineer at Microsoft and distinguished himself as a successful serial entrepreneur. He is a seasoned EVM smart contract developer, a Web3 Foundation grant recipient, and a core contributor to Polkadot. Additionally, Chris serves as a lecturer at the Polkadot Blockchain Academy at UC Berkeley and as a judge at the Permissionless Hackathon. He is a graduate of Southeastern University and holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Hao Wei

Hao Wei is an investor at Synergis Capital. He graduated from the Schuylick School of Business at York University and St. Mary's University in Canada.

Victor Taelin

Victor Maia, Creating programming languages and silly games. Former Software Engineer at ShapeShift, Developed the React.js front-end of http://coincap.io/, and several back-end services with Node.js, Express.js and WebSockets.