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Raj Gokal

Co-Founder at Solana

Details

Raj Gokal is the co-founder of Solana. He was previously the Director of Product at Omada Health, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Rock Health, the co-founder of Sano, a minimally invasive glucose sensor company, and an investor at General Catalyst Partners. Raj holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Work Experience

Education Experience

Investments

Tag
Ecosystem
Token Issuance
Region
Operating Status
Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Ego Ego
Pre-Seed -- $ 0.8 M
May 27
boop boop
Angel -- --
Apr 30
ZAR ZAR
Seed -- $ 7 M
Apr 30
Ambient Ambient
Seed -- $ 7.3 M
Mar 31
DoubleZero DoubleZero
-- $ 400 M $ 28 M
Mar 05
Raise Raise
Strategic -- $ 63 M
Feb 26
fomo fomo
Angel -- $ 2 M
Feb 18
BitRobot BitRobot
Seed -- $ 6 M
Feb 14
Moonwalk Moonwalk
Seed -- $ 3.4 M
Oct 24, 2024
Azura Azura
Seed -- $ 6.9 M
Oct 22, 2024
ZAR ZAR
-- -- --
Sep 25, 2024
0xPPL 0xPPL
Strategic -- --
Sep 03, 2024
IDA IDA
Seed -- $ 6 M
Sep 02, 2024
time.fun time.fun
Seed -- $ 3 M
Aug 29, 2024
elmnts elmnts
Pre-Seed -- $ 2 M
Aug 06, 2024
Integral Integral
-- -- --
Apr 16, 2024
Parallel Parallel
-- -- $ 35 M
Mar 28, 2024
Sphere Sphere
Seed -- $ 2.8 M
Feb 27, 2024
Helius Helius
Series A -- $ 9.5 M
Feb 22, 2024
Drift Drift
Series A -- $ 23.5 M
Jan 23, 2024

Investment Overview

Rounds in the past year

15

Total rounds

31

Portfolio Numbers

30

Lead Investment

0

Relevance Person

Yelena Cavanaugh

Yelena Cavanaugh is general counsel of the Solana Foundation and previously worked at Cooley LLP. He is a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

Ankit Wadhwa

Ankit Wadhwa is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rario. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Gajesh Naik

Gajesh Naik is a senior software engineer at Eigen Labs and previously a software engineer at LayerZero. He is also an angel investor.

Alfredo Terrero

Alfredo Terrero is the Co-Founder and COO of IntoTheBlock. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

Michael Saunders

Michael Saunders is currently the CEO at XP. He graduated from University of Pennsylvania.

Phil Chang

Phil Chang is the Deputy General Counsel at Solana and previously worked at Ropes & Gray LLP. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Boston College.

Robert Leshner

Robert Leshner is the founder of Compound and Superstate, and he also founded Robot Ventures, which invests in early stage blockchain projects.

Stephen Tse

Stephen Tse is the Founder and CEO of Harmony. He sold one of his startups to Apple and worked on infrastructure projects at Google. Stephen has raised $18 million in seed round funding and built a top-level engineering team to develop the next generation of high-performance blockchain protocols.

Evan Rosenbaum

Evan Rosenbaum is the Co-founder and Advisor of Genies. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

Akshat Vaidya

Akshat Vaidya is the Head of Investments at Maelstrom Capital, former Vice President of Corporate Development & Strategic Finance at BitMEX。