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Illia Polosukhin

Co-Founder at NEAR Protocol

Details

Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR, is building a sharded blockchain protocol with usability. He also currently serves as a consultant to Ringfence. He previously worked on the MemSQL, Google AI, and Tensorflow teams. While at Google, he was a major contributor to TensorFlow and led the team that produced Q&A solutions for core Google search. He is passionate about machine intelligence and natural language processing and is a former ICPC finalist.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Seed -- $ 7.5 M
Nov 07
Seed -- $ 8.5 M
Oct 09
Pre-Seed -- $ 10 M
Sep 10
Series A -- $ 33 M
Aug 19
Pre-A -- $ 11 M
Mar 27
Seed -- $ 8.5 M
Jan 23, 2023
Seed -- --
Mar 23, 2022
Series A -- $ 30 M
Feb 16, 2022
Seed $ 30 M $ 1.14 M
Oct 06, 2021
Seed -- $ 5.2 M
Jul 13, 2021
-- -- $ 0.8 M
Jun 30, 2021
Seed -- $ 1.5 M
Jun 02, 2021
Pre-Seed -- $ 1 M
Jun, 2021
Seed -- $ 10.3 M
May 20, 2021
Seed $ 15 M $ 2.8 M
Aug 11, 2020

Investment Overview

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Ronny Conway

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Stephen Tse

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Dan Stone

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