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Sreeram Kanan
Total Investments4
Infrastructure3
Digital Identity1
| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self Protocol | 13 Nov 2025 | $9m | Seed | Digital Identity | Self is a digital identity and trust platform that uses privacy-preserving technologies like verifiable credentials and reusable KYC to verify identities without exposing sensitive data. It lets users control what they share while giving businesses instant, regulatory-grade verification for onboarding, authentication, age checks, and fraud prevention across fintech, Web3, and other digital services. | Greenfield Capital, Spearhead, Verda Ventures, Fireweed Ventures, Starup Capital Ventures x SBI Fund, Sreeram Kanan, Sandeep Nailwal, Julien Bouteloup, Jill Gunter, Hart Lambur, Casey Neistat | |||
| Commonware | 11 Dec 2024 | $9m | Infrastructure | Commonware is an open, Rust-based blockchain framework designed to provide specialized, high-performance on-chain applications | Haun Ventures, Dragonfly Capital | Mert Mumtaz, Nick White, Smokey The Bera, Viktor Bunin, Andrew Huang, Sreeram Kanan, Dan Romero, Zaki Manian, Jonathan Claudius, Kevin Sekniqi, Scott Sunarto, Nemil Dalal | |||
| Succinct | 22 Mar 2024 | $55m | Seed and Series A | Infrastructure | open-source zkVM that lets developers write Rust without sacrificing performance | Paradigm | Robot Ventures, Bankless Ventures, Geometry, ZK Validator, Sreeram Kanan, Sandeep Nailwal, Daniel Lubarov, Elad Gil | ||
| Stackr | 08 Nov 2023 | $5.5m | Seed | Infrastructure | Modular SDK for building micro-rollups | Archetype | a16z Crypto Startup School, Lemniscap, Scalar Capital, Anurag Arjun , Sreeram Kanan, Mustafa Al-Bassam, Andrew Keys, The Spartan Group, Superscrypt , t0, A Capital, Lito Coen |