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Zaki Manian

Co-Founder at Sommelier

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Zaki Manian is the Co-Founder at Sommelier. He has deep expertise in cryptography and distributed consensus systems. Additionally, he is an advisor to the Cosmos project, as well as several other investment funds and startups in the space.

Education Experience

Investments

Tag
Ecosystem
Token Issuance
Region
Operating Status
Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Project Eleven Project Eleven
-- -- $ 6 M
6月 19
Templar Protocol Templar Protocol
Pre-Seed -- $ 4 M
3月 13
Optimum Optimum
Angel -- --
2月 28
commonware commonware
-- -- $ 9 M
12月 11, 2024
Spicenet Spicenet
Seed -- $ 3.4 M
12月 11, 2024
Union Union
Series A -- $ 12 M
12月 03, 2024
Drop Drop
Seed -- $ 4 M
10月 17, 2024
Initia Initia
Series A $ 350 M $ 14 M
9月 25, 2024
OneBalance OneBalance
-- -- $ 5 M
8月 26, 2024
Dora Dora
-- -- $ 5.5 M
7月 09, 2024
Conduit Conduit
Series A -- $ 37 M
6月 25, 2024
Router Protocol Router Protocol
Strategic -- --
6月 19, 2024
Cosmology Cosmology
Seed -- $ 5 M
3月 07, 2024
Alluvial Alluvial
Series A -- $ 12 M
7月 11, 2023
Berachain Berachain
Series A $ 420 M $ 42 M
4月 20, 2023
Para Para
-- -- --
3月 14, 2023
Squid Squid
Seed -- $ 3.5 M
1月 31, 2023
Evertas Evertas
Series A -- $ 14 M
12月 12, 2022
Skip Protocol Skip Protocol
Seed -- $ 6.5 M
9月 22, 2022
EigenCloud EigenCloud
Seed -- $ 14.5 M
8月, 2022

Investment Overview

Rounds in the past year

6

Total rounds

22

Portfolio Numbers

22

Lead Investment

0

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