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Benedict Chan

VP of Engineering at Chainlink

Details

Benedict Chan is Vice President Of Engineering at Chainlink Labs. Formerly, CTO at BitGo. He enjoys thinking about BTC, ETH, the potential of smart contracts and DeFi. As CTO of BitGo, Ben Chan led the engineering team and is responsible for the company’s technological architecture and innovation. Ben began building Bitcoin and blockchain infrastructure projects in 2012, including wallet platforms, key management, early blockchain identity management, and machine to machine payments. With vast experience across blockchains and crypto technologies, Ben serves as the core driver for BitGo’s engineering initiatives. Prior to joining BitGo, Ben worked at Microsoft on the conversation understanding platform. Previous to his time at Microsoft, Ben was a partner and quantitative analyst for automated trading at Manticore Investment Group. He also worked as product manager at Zopim Communications and as an engineer at Vr-Zone. Ben holds a degree in computer science from the University of New South Wales.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Seed -- $ 3 M
Mar 21
Pre-Seed -- --
Apr 16, 2023
Seed -- $ 5 M
Oct 12, 2022
Seed -- $ 9 M
May 17, 2022
-- $ 100 M $ 12 M
Nov 29, 2021
Seed -- $ 7.5 M
Nov 02, 2021
Followers 4.52 K
Following 712
Top Followers
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