Bluzelle
Bluzelle raised US$1.5 million in its Series A funding round in August 2017. The startup then secured USD$19.5 million in 48 hours during a token sale in January 2018.
Directors and Advisors:
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Brian Fox — CTO of Orchid and Creator of GNU Bash. He helps us define our open-source plans.
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Prashant Malik — former Facebook engineer and creator of the popular database Cassandra. He helps us solve key challenges in databases.
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Gil Penchina — former eBay and super angel investor in LinkedIn, PayPal, Ripple. He helps us with marketing and business strategies.
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Alex Leverington is a former core developer of Ethereum having worked on it from the beginning. Alex’s feedback will be a great benefit as we develop a technical roadmap and get our first wave of use cases and customers.
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Ryan Fugger, the original creator of Ripple who designed and implemented a multi-hop payment network into several online communities. It was then sold to Chris Larsen and Jed McCaleb who implemented the concept on top of their consensus ledger transaction system. Ryan’s expertise building decentralized networks will be beneficial to Bluzelle.
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Antoine Cote and Lionello Lunesu. They are the founders of Enuma Technologies, a highly respected firm for smart contracts and security audits. They are the smart contract developers and security advisors for Bluzelle and in an ever-changing environment, this is a critical piece we want to stay on top of.
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Dr. Michael Egorov, a physicist and former LinkedIn Engineer and currently CTO of NuCypher. Michael is an expert in encryption and will advise on the security design of our protocol.