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Marek Olszewski

President at Valora

Details

Marek Olszewski is a co-founder and CTO at Celo and the President at Valora. Earlier, he co-founded Locu, a machine learning venture-backed company that was acquired by GoDaddy. He is also an MIT PhD alumni and a former Facebook Fellow and has previously worked at Google, Microsoft Research and Sun Labs.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Predicate Predicate
-- -- $ 7 M
Oct 15, 2024
Capsule Capsule
-- -- --
Mar 14, 2023
Bitmama Bitmama
Pre-Seed -- $ 2 M
Sep 13, 2022
Canza Finance Canza Finance
Seed -- $ 3.27 M
Mar 22, 2022
impactMarket impactMarket
-- -- $ 2.1 M
Jan 26, 2022
Payourse Payourse
Pre-Seed -- $ 0.6 M
Dec 01, 2021
Kresko Kresko
Seed -- $ 2.35 M
Oct 06, 2021
Followers 17.27 K
Following 1604
Top Followers
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Relevance Person

Anton Katz

Anton Katz is the CEO of Talos, responsible for leading the firm's overall operations and driving its strategic initiatives. Prior to co-founding Talos, he served as Head of Trading Technology for AQR Capital Management, a prominent quantitative investment firm. Before that, he spent six years at Broadway Technology, most recently as Director of Software, leading trading technology development projects for various banks, asset managers, and vendors. His technology career began at Microsoft. Mr. Katz is a veteran of the Israel Defence Forces and a former member of the Israeli National Shooting Team. He holds a degree in Computer Science from MIT.

Aly Madhavji

Aly Madhavji is the co-founder and managing partner of Blockchain Founders Fund, and has worked for PayPal and Microsoft.

Rene Reinsberg

Rene Reinsberg is a co-founder of Celo and currently President of the Celo Foundation. Celo's layer-1 blockchain is at the center of an ecosystem of technologies, organizations and individuals that all share a common mission of building a regenerative financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity for everyone. Previously, he co-founded Locu (aquired by GoDaddy). Rene started his career in global capital markets at Morgan Stanley and also worked at McKinsey, the World Bank, TechnoServe and General Catalyst. He holds graduate degrees from Germany's WHU and MIT.

Jelena Djuric

Jelena Djuric is the Co-Founder & CEO of Noble. She is the Former Community Manager of DFINITY. Jelena Djuric graduated from the University of Toronto, Canada.

Anna Kazlauskas

Anna Kaz is the co-founder and CEO of Vana and previously worked as an engineer at Celo. She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Silas Boyd-Wickizer

Silas Boyd-Wickizer is the Chief Technology Officer at Valora.Presively, he worked as Senior Director Of Engineering at GoDaddy.Research Intern at Microsoft. Silas graduated from Stanford University and he is a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.),Computer Science from MIT.

Abishkar Chhetri

Abishkar Chhetri is the co-founder of Alpen Labs and previously worked at Microsoft. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Max Resnick

Max Resnick is currently a technologist at Anza. He previously worked at ConsenSys and has extensive experience in developing within the Ethereum ecosystem.

Arun Devabhaktuni

Arun Devabhaktuni is a professional with a background in systems biology, physics, and biology. He is currently a Lead Researcher at Mirana Ventures and an Angel Investor at Valhalla Capital. He has also served as the Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of ZenMaid Software. Arun has received a PhD in Systems Biology from Stanford University School of Medicine and a BS in Physics and Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Abhinav Vora

Abhinav Vora is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperline. He was previously the head of engineering at Lyft Pink and a software engineer at Meta and Microsoft. He graduated from RMIT University.