Enabling hybrid applications between the blockchain and off-chain worlds

The first and only multichain Layer 2 blockchain scaling platform, offering Hybrid Compute to developers worldwide

Selected to serve a 3-year term on the Stanford GSB Alumni Association Board of Directors. The Board consists of 18 alumni who guide the school in serving 30,000+ GSB alumni and its mission to develop innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who change the world.

With 3,200+ alumni members in the San Francisco bay area alone and chapters around the world, Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs is the premier network of Stanford alumni who are active in the startup community as investors or entrepreneurs. Through regular pitch meetings, educational panels, and social events, members develop invaluable relationships that further their career and investment portfolio.Portfolio companies include SoFi (going public via $IPOE), Blue River (acquired by John Deere for $300M+), and CirroSecure (acquired by Palo Alto Networks).If you are interested in pitching to our angel members please send your pitch deck to submission@stanfordaande.com. Our investment committee reviews every single pitch.

Acquired by Axon (Nasdaq: AXON)

Update: On leave of absence to focus on building Enya.aiWe invest in entrepreneurs who are setting the world on fire.Founded in 2006 as a pioneer of the new venture industry, XSeed Capital is an early stage investment firm that works with entrepreneurs whose goal is to build category-leading, high growth companies. We are serial entrepreneurs who appreciate the dedication, passion, anxiety and sleepless nights it takes to build something valuable from scratch.Board Member: StackStorm (acquired by Brocade), BreakawayBoard Observer: Lex Machina (acquired by RELX Group), Migo (acquired by PayU), SIPX (acquired by Proquest), Zooz, Playnomics (acquired by Unity), AtScaleOther portfolio companies sourced / involved with: AtScale, Listo, Teapot (acquired by Stripe), Caspar.ai, Pixlee, Inklo, Dispatcher, My90Words from the entrepreneurs we are privileged to work with:http://xseedcap.com/entrepreneurs/Taught product management class at Stanford in Strategies of Effective Product Management (S509) by Amir Goldberg and Robert SiegelMentor/Speaker at Stanford: - Stanford Venture Studio- Spark (Stanford Technology Ventures Program)- Cardinal Ventures- Stanford Ignite- Topics in Digital Business (S517) by Susan Athey- Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital (S354) by Peter Wendell, Eric Schmidt, Raymond Nasr- Startup Garage (S366) by Stefanos Zenios- Lean Launchpad (E245) by Steve Blank, Jon Feiber, Ann Miura-Ko- Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital (S354) by Peter Ziebelman- Design for Extreme Affordability (Stanford d.school)- Purposeful Change - Harness Your Personal Meaning to Increase Your Impact- Creating a New Venture (S321) by Dennis RohanTalks given at Stanford:- Nailing Product-Market Fit- Pricing and Revenue Models- How to Succeed in Product Management- Building a Successful Founding Team- (For MBA's) How to Work with Engineers- (For engineers) How to Work with Business People- (For non-tech founders) Do I Need a Technical Co-Founder?

Consumer finance startup focused on emerging markets

Financial services for Latino communities in the US

Event-driven automation for DevOps and ChatOps. Acquired by Brocade (NASDAQ:BRCD).

Acquired by PayU

Acquired by LexisNexis of the RELX Group (NYSE:RELX)

Acquired by Proquest

Acquired by Unity (NYSE: U)

Program details: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sloanCreated Team Agora in Steve Blank's Lean Launchpad course: http://en.wordpress.com/tag/lean-launchpadd.school alumDeveloped cloud computing infrastructure market analysis paper under guidance of strategy professor Robert Burgelman.

Acquired by NetApp in May 2010, Bycast was a data storage software company providing distributed object storage platform for enterprise storage clouds and large-scale digital archives. Install base of 200+ sites spanning over 20 countries, with IBM and Hewlett-Packard as global distribution partners. Created and scaled up Product Management group. Owned product management, applications engineering, training, and technical publications.Managed strategic relationships with IBM and HP. Developed IBM program from scratch.

NetApp (NTAP) is a storage and data management company with 11,000+ employees across 150+ offices worldwide. US$5.1B in revenue (2010).Spearheaded product integration strategy post-acquisition at NetApp. Managed a team of product managers to integrate Bycast products into NetApp and to develop product requirements for a next-generation object storage platform. Left company to pursue master's degree at Stanford GSB.

Photon publishes inspirational music created by young Christians. The musician network consists of 50+ musicians located across North America, and the songs are being used in various ministries around the world. Sold 10,000+ albums.Built reseller network spanning Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, and North America.Established licensing partnership with Salt + Light TV, the first national Canadian Catholic TV Network.

PowerWallz was a network security startup developing firewall and VPN appliances for small-to-medium-sized businesses in Europe and Asia.Turned around drifting development project and delivered the first commercially available product released by the company. Organized trade show presence in the US (Comdex, Computer Security Institute Annual Conference), Germany (CeBIT), and France (Interop). Recruited channel partners and delivered product training in Germany and Korea.

Rocket Builders is a market strategy and consulting firm focused on helping technology companies capitalize on market opportunities.Developed technology solutions for clients based on analysis of their business needs and competitive landscape.

Acquired by Kodak for ~US$1B in cash in 2005, Creo was a digital prepress technology provider that revolutionized the commercial printing industry with its computer-to-plate products and distributed workflow system.Developed infrastructure components for a digital prepress workflow system that was three years ahead of its competition, delivered over US$1B of revenues to Creo and Kodak, and remained the industry leader today.