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Rahul Sood is the CEO and Co-Founder of Irreverent Labs, and formerly Co-Founder and CEO at Unikrn and General Manager at Microsoft Start-ups group. In 2011, he joined Microsoft and created the Bing Fund in 2012. He also consolidated Microsoft's global start-up activities under his leadership in 2013. As a serial entrepreneur, Rahul Sood has spent 18 years in multiple start-ups before joining Microsoft. He founded VoodooPC, a gaming computer manufacturer, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2006. His team operated start-up accelerators and outreach in Seattle, China, India, and Israel. Furthermore, he co-founded BrightSquid Medical, a unique collaboration platform for medical professionals, which was subsequently acquired by NetworksMD. He also created BullsOnWallstreet, a trading and education platform for retail investors and traders, and is an active angel investor in a number of small Canadian-based energy companies.
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Praneeth Srikanti
Praneeth Srikanti is the Investment Partner & Co-founder at Ethereal Ventures and former Investment Principal at ConsenSys Ventures.
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.
Sahil Thaker
Sahil Thaker is the co-founder of Hyperline and previously worked at Microsoft, Uber, and Meta. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oakland.
Krish Chelikavada
Krish Chelikavada is the Co-Founder and CEO of 0xPass, a Venture Capital Fellow of DECODE, a Course Assistant at Stanford University, a Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford, a Product Manager at Microsoft, and a Software Engineer at Oracle. He holds a Master's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business.
Maika Isogawa
Maika Isogawa is the founder and CEO of Webacy, a venture-backed protective layer for self-custody. Prior to this, she was a cybersecurity engineer for Microsoft and was recognized as a "Forbes 30 Under 30" lister. She attended Stanford University and specialized in artificial intelligence.
Haichao Zhu
Haichao Zhu is the co-founder of Rooch Network and has worked on Algorand, Solana and other projects.
Chris Li
Chris Li is the co-founder and CEO of Ava Protocol and was previously a smart contract expert at Block.one. Before founding Ava Protocol, Chris Li built a strong foundation as a Messaging Protocol Engineer at Microsoft and distinguished himself as a successful serial entrepreneur. He is a seasoned EVM smart contract developer, a Web3 Foundation grant recipient, and a core contributor to Polkadot. Additionally, Chris serves as a lecturer at the Polkadot Blockchain Academy at UC Berkeley and as a judge at the Permissionless Hackathon. He is a graduate of Southeastern University and holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Jameel Lee
James co-founded Sending Labs and has since led its technical development. Prior to this, he participated in the development of Microsoft OS systems for Windows and Surface projects at Microsoft. After leaving Microsoft, James headed the development of Dolphin browser at MoboTap, a third-party Android mobile browser used by over 200 million users in the US, Europe, and Japan. MoboTap was later acquired by ChangYou, a leading mobile gaming platform in China. Subsequently, James led the AI algorithm at ABC Technology, the second company co-founded by Mason and Joe, who are also the co-founders of SendingLabs.
Ben Livshits
Ben Livshits is the Chief Technology Officer of Eclipse. Previously, he was the Vice President of Research at zkSync and the Chief Scientist at clipseBrave. He is also an Associate Professor at Imperial College London, a PhD from Stanford University, and a Research Scientist at Microsoft Research. He graduated from Cornell University and Stanford University, has written hundreds of academic papers, and holds dozens of patents.
Callil Capuozzo
Callil Capuozzo is VP Design at Uniswap & adjunct at Parsons teaching design and code. Previously at Google, Microsoft and a few other places working on new and experimental products.