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Kydo

Protocol Researcher at EigenLayer

Details

Kydo is a protocol researcher at Eigen Labs and the founder of Native Labs. Previously, he was a delegate at Uniswap DAO serving on its inaugural committee and the round owner for Gitcoin's first DeSci round.. He received his Master's degree from Stanford Medicine under Professor Dan Boneh. His thesis was on decentralized scientific funding mechanisms. He angel invests in vertical-defining projects with a strong emphasis at the infrastructure level. Besides providing capital, he enjoys working with founders navigating (technical) narratives and GTM.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
delta delta
-- -- $ 11 M
Oct 09, 2024
Sorella Sorella
Seed -- $ 7.5 M
Aug 20, 2024
Agora Agora
Seed -- $ 5 M
May 01, 2024
Clique Clique
Series A -- $ 8 M
Mar 14, 2024

Relevance Person

Teddy Knox

Teddy Knox is a Senior Research Engineer at EigenLayer and the Head of Product for EigenDA. Previously, he served as the Head of Engineering at Duality and as a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn.

Alan Curtis

Alan Curtis is COO of EigenLayer and was previously CEO of Rio Network, Head of PlatformBlockchain Capital, CTO of Core Scientific, and CEO of RADAR.

Frederick Allen

Frederick Allen is Director of Business Development at EigenLayer and was previously Head of BD at Rio Network and Head of Staking Sales at Coinbase. He graduated from Monash University in Australia.

Gajesh Naik

Gajesh Naik is a senior software engineer at Eigen Labs and previously a software engineer at LayerZero. He is also an angel investor.

Caleb Tebbe

Caleb Tebbe is currently Director of Engineering at EigenLayer and was previously a Principal Research Engineer at Blockchain Capital, a development engineer at Coinbase, and a CTO at Radar.

Alexander Wade

Alexander Wade works on the EigenLayer security team, and was previously a smart contract security engineer at Consensys Diligence, as well as founding the Authio program.Alexander Wade has been working on smart contract auditing since dropping out of college in 2017. He studied chemistry before pursuing a degree in computer science and security.

Brianna Montgomery

Brianna Montgomery was previously VP of Growth at EigenLayer and was previously Head of Business at ConsenSys.

Brandon Curtis

Brandon Curtis is Director of eRsearch at EigenLayer and co-founder of Rio Network, and previously served as Senior Vice President of research operations at Core Scientific and Director of research and analysis at Radar.

Ishaan 0x

Ishaan Hiranandani is the head of strategy at EigenLayer and a former co-founder of MeldX. He was previously a product manager at JPMorgan and an investor at Jump Crypto. He graduated from the University of Michigan.

Clayton Menzel

Clayton Menzel is now Head of Business Development at Babylon and was previously Head of Strategy at Rio Network, Head of Strategy at Figment and Head of communities at YEN.io and CariClub.