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Calvin Liu

Investor at Divergence Ventures

Details

Calvin Liu is the Chief Strategy Officer at EigenLayer, where he is building infrastructure to extend Ethereum's trust network to any distributed system. He is also an investor at Divergence Ventures, focusing on pre-seed crypto investments. Previously, he served as Strategy Lead at Compound Labs, where he helped build and deploy the Compound interest rate protocol. Calvin has also worked as a data analytics professional at Gusto and was the co-founder of Outpour, an iOS app that enabled users to write appreciative messages about their friends anonymously. He holds a degree in Economics from Harvard University.

Education Experience

Investments

Tag
Ecosystem
Token Issuance
Region
Operating Status
Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Pre-Seed -- $ 1.9 M
Oct 28
-- -- $ 7 M
Oct 15
Seed -- $ 7.5 M
Aug 20
Seed -- $ 12.5 M
Jul 02
Series A -- $ 37 M
Jun 25
-- -- $ 10 M
May 23
Seed -- $ 10 M
May 23
Series A -- $ 8 M
Mar 14
Seed -- $ 6 M
Feb 28
Seed Plus $ 300 M $ 14 M
Feb 16
Seed -- $ 6 M
Jan 29
Series A -- $ 20 M
Jan 25
Pre-Seed -- --
Dec 08, 2023
Pre-Seed -- $ 3.4 M
Sep 13, 2023
Seed -- $ 5.5 M
Aug 08, 2023
Seed -- $ 6.5 M
Jul 17, 2023
Series A -- $ 12 M
Jul 11, 2023
Seed -- $ 10 M
Jun 06, 2023
Seed -- $ 4.2 M
Apr 26, 2023
Seed -- $ 7 M
Feb 14, 2023

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Teddy Knox

Teddy Knox is a Senior Research Engineer at EigenLayer and the Head of Product for EigenDA. Previously, he served as the Head of Engineering at Duality and as a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn.

Mind Apivessa

Mind Apivessa is the co-founder of Station Labs, previously held positions at Meta and IBM. He graduated from Cornell University in the United States.

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.

Conner Symmetry

Conner Symmetry is the co-founder and CTO of Station, and previously he was a protocol architect at Syndicate. He graduated from Cornell University in the United States.

John Wu

John Wu is the President of Ava Labs, a technology company backed by Andresseen Horowitz that is building the next-generation blockchain platform: Avalanche. His mission is to make financial services and products accessible to everyone. He is using his experience of more than 20 years as a fintech executive and technology investor to create a blockchain-based solution for the origination, issuance, and trading of financial assets. Previously, John was the CEO of the SharesPost Digital Assets Group, which enabled compliant token trading of private shares and funds. Before that, he was a technology investor and the founder of Sureview Capital, a hedge fund supported by the Blackstone Group. John began his investment career at Tiger Management, a distinguished hedge fund that had $20 billion in assets under management at its peak. Afterwards, he managed a global technology portfolio at Kingdon Capital. John received his MBA from Harvard University and holds a BS in Economics from Cornell University.

Robert Leshner

Robert Leshner is the founder of Compound and Superstate, and he also founded Robot Ventures, which invests in early stage blockchain projects.

Ishaan Hiranandani

Ishaan Hiranandani is Strategy Lead at EigenLayer and was previously a product manager at jpmorgan Chase andan investor in Jump Crypto. He graduated from the University of Michigan.

Brandon Curtis

Brandon Curtis is Director of eRsearch at EigenLayer and co-founder of Rio Network, and previously served as Senior Vice President of research operations at Core Scientific and Director of research and analysis at Radar.

Mike Jones

Mike Jones is a talent partner at Dragonfly, and previously she was head of technical recruiting at OKX. She graduated from Cornell University in the United States.

Gengmo Qi

Gengmo Qi is a partner at Dragonfly and was previously a researcher and engineer at Chainlink. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Chicago.