| Website | Blockstack.com/funding |
| Assets Under Management | $5,269,894 |
| Minimum Investment | Not Disclosed |
| Raise Goal | $5,519,892 |
| Status | Live |
| YTD Return | Not disclosed |
| Lifetime Return | Not Disclosed |
| Number of Investors | Not disclosed |
Strategy:
Invest in companies building decentralized applications on top of the Blockstack.
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Location: New York
Team:
Muneeb Ali
Muneeb Ali is a distributed systems PhD from Princeton and gives guest lectures on cloud computing there. He went through Y Combinator and was awarded a J. William Fulbright Fellowship.
Ryan Shea
Ryan Shea studied engineering at Princeton, went through Y Combinator, and was inducted into the Forbes 30 Under 30. He has authored several popular open source libraries in cryptography and blockchains.
Jude Nelson
Jude Nelson did PhD-level research in distributed systems at Princeton and worked as a core member of PlanetLab, which received the ACM Test of Time Award for enabling planetary scale experimentation and deployment.
Aaron Blankstein
Aaron Blankstein received his PhD from Princeton and bachelors from MIT. His work on the CONIKS key management protocol was awarded the 2017 Caspar Bowden Award for Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
Larry Salibra
Larry Salibra co-founded Pay4Bugs, a crowdsourced security analysis and software testing platform, and is a founding member of the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong. His work exposed private data leakage in Chinese Tinder clone Tantan, and how Apple censors apps in China.
Gina Abrams
Gina Abrams studied Psychology and Social Sciences at Binghamton University. Previously she spent two years in agency technical recruiting, during which time she assisted numerous NYC start-ups in mission critical DevOps, SRE and Security hires.
Guy Lepage
Guy Lepage is an award-winning designer, who has been recognized by the Lotus Awards and the New York Festivals for branding, and is a finalist for the INDEX award 2017. He has worked on many brands from Toyota to Disney and was a startup founder of a digital ad agency earlier.
Patrick Stanley
Patrick Stanley studied Economics and Psychology at Johns Hopkins, and was the first employee at Earnest. In a growth role, he helped it scale from 3 to 200+ employees and go from $0 to $1.5B in loans within 3 years.
Jack Zampolin
Jack Zampolin came to Blockstack from InfluxData where he engaged with and grew the developer community as a Developer Evangelist. Before that he helped launch a hardware startup called RightPSI in Bozeman, MT.
Michael Freedman, Technical Advisor
Michael Freedman is a distributed systems Professor at Princeton. He was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE), the Sloan Fellowship, and his research has led to commercial products and deployed systems reaching millions of users daily.
JP Singh, Technical Advisor
JP Singh received his PhD from Stanford University and is a leading authority on scalable infrastructure and applications. He is the director of the Princeton CTO Program, serves on the board of 8×8, Inc., and has been a consultant to Intel, Microsoft, and the U.S. Government.
