Chief Business Officer
CurrentLead business functions in bloXroute Labs - business development, partnerships, sales, marketing, growth and business strategies.Responsibilities in corporate development, funding and investor relationships.Latest funding round - $75 million Series B funding led by SoftBank in 2022 ($70 million + $5 million strategic investor sub-round)The Block - SoftBank leads $70 million round for DeFi infrastructure firm BloXroute https://www.theblock.co/post/141590/bloxroute-raises-funding-softbank-defi-infrastructureReuters - Startup bloXroute gains new funding, the latest Web3 bet for SoftBank https://www.reuters.com/business/startup-bloxroute-gains-new-funding-latest-web3-bet-softbank-2022-04-12/bloXroute Labs is a leading blockchain software company. The 5-years old Chicago-based tech startup is on a mission to bring transactions and data transmission on blockchain to the next level. bloXroute's proprietary blockchain distribution network (BDN) with hyper-connectivity on Ethereum, BNB Chain, Polygon and Solana enables ultra low-latency DeFi with unmatched speed and performance to actors in DeFi and MEV ecosystems.Over 350 DeFi trading firms connect their trading infrastructure to bloXroute’s BDN to get the fastest mempool data in the industry for more trade opportunities and substantially increases their chance of winning trades with high inclusion rate and the most competitive transaction propagation speed.