Balaji Srinivasan

Bio

• From CoinDesk's Most Influential 2022:

"In July, the ex-Coinbase chief technology officer and former Andreessen Horowitz partner published “The Network State: How to Start a New Country,” a crystallization of ideas he’s been kicking around for almost a decade. The book audaciously claims that like-minded people scattered across the globe can form new societies first by building communities on the internet and eventually coalescing in real life – though not necessarily in a single place. "A key concept is to go cloud first, land last – but not land never – by starting with an online community and then materializing it into the physical world,” Srinivasan writes."

• From CoinDesk, which put him in the Most Influention 2020 list (11-12-2020):

"Years before he became an angel investor and intellectual firebrand of the cryptocurrency community, Srinivasan had co-founded a genetic testing company that was eventually sold for $375 million. He had also written papers on microbial and clinical genomics and taught bioinformatics at Stanford. So even though his degrees were in electrical and chemical engineering, he knew a thing or two about biology."

Occupations

• Coinbase, former CTO
• 21e6, Co-founder & CEO
• Andreessen Horowitz, Board Partner
• Coin Center, board of directors
• Earn.com, old CEO sold it to Coinbase (2018).
• Counsyl, old CTO

Investments

• AltLayer; private round (17-1-2024)
• Arcana Network; one of the many investors in the $375k seed round (19-7-2021).
• AVA Labs. Participated (16-5-2019) in an undisclosed 6M$ funding round for AVA Labs
• Celestia; participated in their $55M raise (20-10-2022).
• EPNS; is named as one of the backers (7-5-2021).
• InstaDapp. Was part of a $2.4M seed round (1-10-2019) in InstaDapp. (In which Coinbase also participated).
• Frax; part of their strategic round (16-7-2021).
• Gitcoin; was part of a $11.4M raise for them (14-4-2021).
• Hashflow; was part of their Series A round (7-2022).
• INTMAX; part of their $5M seed round (13-3-2023).
• Lens; part of the $15M raise by Aave (6-2023).
• Mask Network; part of a $2M funding round (17-11-2020).
• Messari. Participated (11-2019) in a funding round of 4 million for Messari.
• Polymarket. Participated in a $4M raise for Polymarket (19-10-2020).
• Radicle; one of the backers named as an early supporter (17-2-2021).
• Shardeum; part of their $18.2M Seed Round (18-10-2022).