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Chris Kalani

Co-Founder and CPO at Phantom

Details

Chris Kalani is CPO & Co-founder at Phantom, Product designer & entrepreneur living in San Francisco. Formerly, Started and led the Matcha team, Director of Design at 0x. He was the founder and CEO of Wake. He started his career at Jive Software nearly 10 years ago. He later worked for various agencies where he focused on building products for companies like Microsoft and Nike. Before starting Wake, Chris was a designer at Facebook where he worked on the growth and engagement team, graph search and Messenger.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Seed -- $ 9.5 M
May 12, 2023

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