Praneeth Srikanti

Co-Founder

Berlin, Berlin, Germany12 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led seed rounds in over 70 companies.
Expert in Web 3.0 and digital asset investments.
Mentored multiple startups through accelerator programs.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Venture Capital expert with a strong focus on Web 3.0 and digital assets.

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Skills

Core Skills

Venture CapitalBusiness StrategyInvestment AnalysisDue DiligenceSoftware DevelopmentNetwork ManagementAgile DevelopmentResearchCommunication ComplexityQuantum Communication

Other Skills

ADFAlgorithmsAlternative InvestmentsAnalysisApache PigBlockchainCC++Core JavaCorporate Venture CapitalData AnalysisData MiningData StructuresEntrepreneurshipEthereum

About

Partner at Ethereal Ventures (spinout of the former venture investment team at Consensys), investing in founders building Web 3.0 and digital asset companies. Co-led/led seed rounds in Sorare, Eigenlayer, Chainsafe, Aztec Protocol - among 70+ other companies. Feel free to drop an email to praneeth@ethereal.xyz - if you want to chat about what you're building (especially if it relates to new cryptographic/cryptoeconomic systems, identities, crypto-asset economic valuation, decentralized intelligence, network virtualisation and telecom biz models).

Experience

12 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Consensys mesh

Advisor, Investments

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Dv labs

Board Observer

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

Onjuno

Board Observer

Feb 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

Coinhouse

Board Observer

Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs

Ethereal ventures

Investment Partner & Co-founder

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 5 mos · Berlin, Germany

Investing in technical teams building the next computational paradigms in Web 3.0 - and working in an operationally-involved capacity to build out category leaders

Venture CapitalBusiness StrategyEntrepreneurship

Chainsafe systems

Board Observer

Apr 2020 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Rocketpool

Board Member

Apr 2020 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Consensys

Investment Principal, Consensys Ventures

Apr 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Berlin, Germany

Running point for ecosystem fund backing founders building on permissionless blockchains
Led investments in 7 deals (Sorare (600x), Starkware (4x), Coinhouse (3x), PDAX (2x), Ligero, Tenta (exit), Unlock and a stealth-startup) across Europe and US
Ran the 2nd edition of the Tachyon accelerator in Berlin in 2019; mentoring 10 portfolio companies in the cohort
Conceptualized the Tachyon accelerator program for pre-seed investments across 3 cohorts run in Berlin, SF and NY
Consulting Consensys Digital Securities on creating risk-models for crypto-assets

Venture CapitalBusiness Strategy

Momenta partners

Independent Consultant

Feb 2018 – Apr 2018 · 2 mos

Consultant on industry-focused IOT seed-stage fund and advisory firm
Technical due-diligence on IOT startups for investments across Europe, Chicago and SF
Created capabilities assessment framework across the stack in conjunction with IBM Watson executive

Due DiligenceInvestment AnalysisVenture Capital

Redstone

Investment Analyst

Aug 2017 – Jan 2018 · 5 mos · Berlin Area, Germany

Part of the investment team providing VC-as-a-service for corporate venturing
Creating strategic investment roadmaps for corporate venture capital clients across mobility, fintech and media
Performed commercial due diligence on enterprise AI and IIOT deals for $50m+ rounds
Operational support for portfolio companies in strategic outreach and product areas

Investment AnalysisDue Diligence

Microsoft

Software Development Engineer

Aug 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr · Hyderabad Area, India

RRAS and SDN management in Windows Server
Network driver design and implementation
VPN customisation and solutions for cross-site enterprise clients
Design and deployment of SDN solutions for Azure stack

Software DevelopmentNetwork Management

Oracle

Member Technical Staff

Jun 2012 – Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Software development and testing for EPRCS (financial reporting cloud service)
Design and implementation of comment anchoring and collaboration subsystems as team lead of eight-member team in an Agile development environment
Member of customer-facing SWAT team to reduce latency time in issue resolution
Filed a patent for a matching algorithm
Mentored three new joiners in the organization

Software DevelopmentAgile Development

Microsoft india

Research Intern

May 2011 – Jul 2011 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Member of the crypto, security and theoretical math group. Research on classical communication complexity bounds
Worked with the classical decision tree model to extend a new measure of complexity
Presented results at the 2nd Annual Mysore Park Workshop in Theoretical Computer Science

ResearchCommunication Complexity

Centre for quantum technologies

Research Intern

May 2010 – Jul 2010 · 2 mos · Singapore

Improving bounds for quantum communication complexity channels.
Worked on improving the lower bound for quantum communication for the k-round Set Disjointedness problem
Gave presentations and proof-read papers on the topics of Communication Complexity and Quantum Interactive proofs

ResearchQuantum Communication