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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 14, 2024
Para Para
-- -- --
Mar 13, 2023
Bitmama Bitmama
Pre-Seed -- $ 2 M
Sep 12, 2022
Canza Finance Canza Finance
Seed -- $ 3.27 M
Mar 21, 2022
impactMarket impactMarket
-- -- $ 2.1 M
Jan 25, 2022
Payourse Payourse
Pre-Seed -- $ 0.6 M
Nov 30, 2021
Kresko Kresko
Seed -- $ 2.35 M
Oct 06, 2021

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.

Allen Lee

Allen Lee is the Founder and CEO of Beta Finance, having previously worked at Microsoft and Facebook. Allen Lee holds a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

William Le

William Le is currently a Founder&CEO at Haraka.Previously he worked at Celo and impactMarket. He graduated from University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Nana Essilfie-Conduah

Nana Essilfie-Conduah is a senior software engineer at Hedera and previously worked at Microsoft. He graduated from MIT with a master's degree in engineering management.

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 co-founder and COO of Divvi and the CTO of Valora. Previously, he was a senior director of engineering at GoDaddy. Before that, he was a research intern at Microsoft. Silas graduated from Stanford University and holds a PhD in 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.