Stani Kulechov

Bio

• Before founding Aave, Stani completed a Master’s Degree in Law and spent some time as a legal trainee at various law firms.

Occupations

• Aave; Founder
• Bankless Ventures; part of their $35M venture fund (28-4-2023).
• MetaCoin; active in the community
• Fair Launch Capital; advisor
• Is participating in governance of Bounce (4-9-2020).
• Opium Protocol; advisor (9-2020)
• Syndicate Protocol; was one of 20+ investors in a $1M raise (17-3-2021).
• Variant Fund; venture partner (5-3-2021)

Investments

• A background story on why Stani invests a lot (40+ projects and counting) can be read here (30-1-2021). "rather than sending a team a bunch of USDC, he’d rather send them aUSDC, because then they already have some yield built in."
• BarnBridge. Participated in a $1M seed round for BarnBridge (14-9-2020).
• BoardRoom. Participated in a $2.2M raise for BoardRoom (13-10-2020).
• Certora; invested (30-1-2021).
• Element Finance; took part in their Series A raise of$32M (19-10-2021).
• Frax; part of their strategic round (16-7-2021).
• Furucombo; one of the participants in a $1.85$ raise (7-1-2021).
• Gelato; part of their $11M raise (8-10-2021).
• Illuvium; was part of a $5M investment round (12-3-2021).
• Lido; participated in a $2M seed round among many others (15-10-2020).
• Maple Finance; participated in a $1.3M raise (12-2020).
• Matter Labs; according to Matter Labs, the founders and leadership of a bunch of DeFi projects, among which this project, joined in on the $50m raise for zkSync (8-11-2021).
• Opyn; participated in a $6.5M raise (4-2-2021).
• Paraswap. Participated in a $2.7M seed round for Paraswap (17-9-2020).
• Pods Finance; invested (30-1-2021).
• Polymarket. Participated in a $4M raise for Polymarket (19-10-2020).
• PoolTogether, invested (30-1-2021).
• RabbitHole. Participated in an undisclosed round (3-12-2020).
• Radicle; one of the backers named as an early supporter (17-2-2021).
• RedStone; is mentioned on their website as an investor. zkSync founders co-invested.
• Rift Protocol; mentioned as a backer on the Rift website (21-3-2022).
• RISE; Took part in their $3.2M seed round (16-9-2024).
• Shell Protocol; invested (30-1-2021).
• Slingshot, invested (30-1-2021).
• Swivel, invested (30-1-2021).