Download our app now to access cryptocurrency data anytime, anywhere! [Click here to download]

Nikil Viswanathan

Co-Founder and CEO at Alchemy

Details

Nikil Viswanathan is Co-Founder and CEO of Alchemy, the world's leading blockchain developer platform. He was honored as Forbes 30 Under 30, earned his BS and MS in Computer Science from Stanford, and previously held product management roles at Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. He is a serial entrepreneur and co-created the #1 social app in the world, Down To Lunch, which was featured in international media such as a New York Times business cover story. He has been featured in numerous global media outlets, including the New York Times, Forbes, NBC, Business Insider, and TechCrunch.

Education Experience

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Series A -- $ 14 M
Oct 31
Seed -- $ 13.2 M
May 08
-- -- $ 33 M
Sep 21, 2023
Seed -- $ 4.6 M
Aug 30, 2023
Seed -- $ 20 M
Mar 08, 2023
Series A1 $ 1 B $ 135 M
Mar 30, 2022
Seed -- $ 5 M
Sep 16, 2021
Series A -- $ 20 M
Sep 01, 2021
Series A -- $ 8.2 M
Jul 07, 2021
Seed -- $ 3.25 M
Jun 24, 2021

Investment Overview

2

10

10

0

Relevance Person

Joseph Lau

Joseph Lau is Co-Founder and CTO of Alchemy. A serial entrepreneur, he cofounded the #1 social app in the world and has been featured in international media including a New York Times Business cover story, Forbes, Business Insider, and TechCrunch. He has been honored as Forbes 30 under 30, formerly did engineering at Pinterest, Google, and Linkedin. Joe graduated with both an undergraduate and master's degree in computer science from Stanford University.

Guillaume Poncin

Guillaume Poncin is the director of engineering at Alchemy, a Web3 developer platform. He previously served as the head of Web3 at Stripe. During his work at Stripe, Guillaume Poncin launched a fiat-to-cryptocurrency channel and a cross-border payment product using stablecoins. Before joining Stripe, Poncin spent 12 years at Google as a technical lead for Google Books and Google Cloud. Guillaume Poncin graduated from Stanford University.

Dennis J.H. Won

Dennis is a Technical Partner at L2 Iterative Ventures. Prior to L2 Iterative, Dennis was one of the founding members of Harmony Protocol. He graduated from Stanford University in the United States.

Gary

Gary is the Managing Partner at Momentum Capital. Gary is a Silicon Valley-based investor, a serial entrepreneur, a Stanford-affiliated researcher, and a true believer in Web3. Gary has over six years of experience in blockchain technology and is currently focusing on scaling, DID, and liquidity solutions. Gary finished his Ph.D. and postdoc research at Stanford University before transitioning into the industry.

John Lilly

John Lilly is the Board Member at Figma.He spents the past 30 years working at and investing in technology companies that help people create & connect -- Mozilla, Apple, Instagram, Duolingo, Figma, Dropbox, Tumblr & more. He also spent a lot of time helping non-profit and civic tech organizations like Code for America, VotingWorks and Daffy.org.

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.

Guillermo Angeris

Guillermo is a Stanford lifer (BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering). He spends most of his work time in a dark corner of a room, figuring out random math problems for fun. He also loves to work with teams to model many of the weird (and fascinating) incentives in DeFi and beyond. Outside of work, Guillermo likes to cook pizza, hike, and have long, silly conversations with friends over wine.

Patrick O'Grady

Patrick O'Grady is the founder of commonware and was previously VP of Engineering at Avalanche and a software engineer at Coinbase. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer science from Stanford University.

Mandy Campbell

Mandy leads Bain Capital Crypto’s and portfolio marketing efforts across brand, content, events, and communications. Before joining the Bain team, she led Marketing for global crypto exchange Okcoin and managed fast-growing teams at companies like GitHub, Lyft, and Meta. When she’s not helping builders, she’s hiking with her family or searching for carrot cake in the Bay Area.

Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington is the Founder of TechCrunch, CrunchBase and Arrington Capital.