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Bryan Pellegrino

Co-Founder and CEO at LayerZero

Details

Bryan Pellegrino is the co-founder and CEO of LayerZero Labs. He has also worked as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Lead Engineer for Machine Learning Architecture, and co-founder for OpenToken. Bryan graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in Computer Science in 2008.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Yeet Yeet
-- -- $ 7.75 M
Mar 17
fomo fomo
Angel -- $ 2 M
Feb 17
Initia Initia
Series A $ 350 M $ 14 M
Sep 24, 2024
Vibes Vibes
Angel -- $ 2 M
Sep 09, 2024
Corn Corn
Seed -- $ 6.7 M
Aug 19, 2024
Shogun Shogun
Seed $ 69 M $ 6.9 M
May 14, 2024
Usual Usual
-- $ 50 M $ 7 M
Apr 16, 2024
fantasy.top fantasy.top
Pre-Seed -- --
Apr 16, 2024
Integral Integral
-- -- --
Apr 15, 2024
Monad Monad
-- $ 3 B $ 225 M
Apr 08, 2024
Crystalfall Crystalfall
Seed -- $ 1.5 M
Mar 17, 2024
Blockus Blockus
Pre-Seed -- $ 4 M
Mar 10, 2024
Superform Superform
Seed -- $ 6 M
Feb 07, 2024
SkyArk Chronicles SkyArk Chronicles
-- -- $ 15 M
Jan 11, 2024
Pudgy Penguins Pudgy Penguins
Seed -- $ 9 M
May 08, 2023

Investment Overview

Rounds in the past year

10

Total rounds

15

Portfolio Numbers

15

Lead Investment

0

Bryan Pellegrino (臭企鹅)

@PrimordialAA
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Relevance Person

Ryan Zarick

Ryan Zarick is a Co-founder and CTO at LayerZero Labs, a company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada that is building the Layer 0 of blockchain. He has over 10 years of experience in the tech industry, having co-founded Minimal AI, Coder Den, and 80Trill, and held the CTO position at Buzzdraft. Ryan holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire.

Austin Chan

Austin Chan is the Ecosystem Lead at Fluent and was previously the Head of Business Development at Morph and BD at LayerZero. He is a graduate of the Stern School of Business at New York University and the Shanghai American School.

Caleb Banister

Caleb Banister is a Co-Founder of LayerZero Labs. He specializes in writing and auditing Smart Contracts for blockchain-related projects. Caleb is a professional Solidity developer and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire. He is a highly skilled Java and Linux programmer and is building the future and multichain metaverse.

0xMaki

0xMaki is the co-founder of Heroglyphs and Aura Finance, and was previously a core contributor to SushiSwap and Chief Strategy Advisor at LayerZero.

Simon Baksys

Simon Baksys is Vice president of business development at LayerZero and was previously the BD lead for Google's Cloud web3 team. He graduated from the University of Central Florida.

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.

Seena Foroutan

Seena Foroutan is the former head of business development at LayerZero, former head of business development at Chainlink, and former institutional sales manager at Coinbase.

0xbeachball

0xbeachball is the founder of Synonym Finance and was previously a contributor to New Order, Notional, and LayerZero.

Richard Dietrich

Richard Dietrich is the head of talent at LayerZero. He graduated from the University of the Pacific.

Eric Vreeland

Eric Vreeland is Chief strategy Officer at Polyhedra, former head of marketing at LayerZero, and former vice president of marketing at People Data Labs. He graduated from Princeton University.