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== Investments ==
== Investments ==


*[[AltLayer]]; [https://www.binance.com/en/research/projects/altlayer private round] (17-1-2024)
*[[Arcana Network]]; one of the many investors in the [https://medium.com/arcana-network-blog/arcana-raises-seed-from-balaji-srinivasan-and-other-leading-investors-f4ff94fa9c20 $375k seed round] (19-7-2021).
*[[Arcana Network]]; one of the many investors in the [https://medium.com/arcana-network-blog/arcana-raises-seed-from-balaji-srinivasan-and-other-leading-investors-f4ff94fa9c20 $375k seed round] (19-7-2021).
*AVA Labs. [https://www.coindesk.com/ava-labs-exits-stealth-launches-blockchain-testnet-based-on-avalanche-protocol Participated] (16-5-2019) in an undisclosed 6M$ funding round for [[AVA Labs]]
*AVA Labs. [https://www.coindesk.com/ava-labs-exits-stealth-launches-blockchain-testnet-based-on-avalanche-protocol Participated] (16-5-2019) in an undisclosed 6M$ funding round for [[AVA Labs]]
*[[Avail]]; part of the [https://twitter.com/AvailProject/status/1762114101881537009 $27M seed round] (26-2-2024)
*[[Celestia]]; participated in their [https://blog.celestia.org/celestia-raises-55m-to-launch-modular-blockchain-network/ $55M raise] (20-10-2022).
*[[Celestia]]; participated in their [https://blog.celestia.org/celestia-raises-55m-to-launch-modular-blockchain-network/ $55M raise] (20-10-2022).
*[[EPNS]]; is named as one of the [https://epns.io/ backers] (7-5-2021).
*[[EPNS]]; is named as one of the [https://epns.io/ backers] (7-5-2021).

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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."

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