Yale

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• Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
• Raised 400 million for Paradigm

Current employees/professors

• Some collaborate with DeepSea, a smart contract research, and development project, that received a grant from the Ethereum Foundation to develop a new smart contract language for the Ethereum Virtual Machine; DeepSea is lead by Professor Ronghui Gu, an assistant professor of computer science at Columbia

Past employees/graduates

• Brian Cai; CEO & founder of Fortuna "Brian graduated from Yale University and majored in Computer Science. He has worked in investment banking, corporate finance, and private banking in New York, London, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Before launching Fortuna, he was managing more than 5 billion USD as the director of private banking with the Zhejiang Provincial Branch of Bank of Communications. Brian is in charge of the strategic design and implementation of Fortuna."
• FangFang Chen; Fangfang holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Yale University now Head of Operations, Algorand Foundation.
• Is among the slew of big names mentioned (12-6-2020) as previous experience on the CertiK team page.