Anatoly Yakovenko

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Co-Founder and CEO at Solana

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Anatoly Yakovenko is Co-Founder and CEO of Solana. He has over 10 years of experience in developing high-performance operating systems, and is a world-class underwater hockey player. He is an alumnus of Qualcomm, Mesosphere, Dropbox, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Investments

Tag
Ecosystem
Token Issuance
Region
Operating Status
Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
worm.wtf worm.wtf
Pre-Seed -- $ 4.5 M
Dec 18, 2025
Asgard Finance Asgard Finance
Seed -- $ 2.2 M
Dec 06, 2025
Ryder Ryder
Seed -- $ 3.2 M
Oct 17, 2025
Inference Inference
Seed -- $ 11.8 M
Oct 15, 2025
BULK BULK
Seed -- $ 8 M
Sep 24, 2025
Titan Titan
Seed -- $ 7 M
Sep 18, 2025
DataHive AI DataHive AI
Seed -- $ 3.5 M
Aug 27, 2025
Vanish Vanish
Seed -- $ 1 M
Aug 22, 2025
Trends Trends
-- -- --
Jul 17, 2025
Xitadel Xitadel
-- -- --
Jul 08, 2025
ZAR ZAR
Seed -- $ 7 M
Apr 30, 2025
Magicblock Magicblock
Seed -- $ 7.5 M
Apr 24, 2025
Ambient Ambient
Seed -- $ 7.3 M
Mar 31, 2025
DoubleZero DoubleZero
-- $ 400 M $ 28 M
Mar 05, 2025
BitRobot BitRobot
Seed -- $ 6 M
Feb 14, 2025
Merit Systems Merit Systems
Seed -- $ 10 M
Jan 16, 2025
OpenDelta OpenDelta
-- -- --
Nov 27, 2024
Pulse Pulse
Pre-Seed -- $ 1.8 M
Nov 14, 2024
Fragmetric Fragmetric
Angel -- --
Nov 04, 2024
Atlas Atlas
-- -- $ 21 M
Oct 31, 2024

Investment Overview

Rounds in the past year

16

Total rounds

57

Portfolio Numbers

55

Lead Investment

0

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