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Partner

Einar Braathen

Advice for founders

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Specializes in

Decentralized AI, new financial rails

Looking for

Outliers

Cares about

Scaling freedom and knowledge.

Education

University of St. Gallen (HSG), Harvard, London Business School

Experience

Private Equity Group at Bain & Company, Mosaic Ventures, General Catalyst, Accel London

Notable Achievements

Facilitated the $67B Dell-EMC merger, investor in Prime Intellect, Pluralis, LiFi, Catena Labs, Axie Infinity

Interests

Hiking, sports, sociology, backgammon

Preferred channels for outreach

Warm intros.

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Dakota
Onchain Finance & Financial Infrastructure

Regulated infrastructure for enterprise stablecoins

Year
2025
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Series A
Visit Website
Irys
Blockchain Infrastructure

Decentralized storage for AI

Year
2025
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Series A
Visit Website
Pluralis
Decentralized AI

Decentralized AI training

Year
2024
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Pre-seed
Visit Website
Prime Intellect
Decentralized AI

Open-source AI development stack

Year
2024
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Seed
Visit Website
Rhinestone
Blockchain Infrastructure

Intent-powered wallet infrastructure

Year
2024
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Seed
Visit Website
Rho Labs
Onchain Finance & Financial Infrastructure

Onchain interest rate derivatives for institutions

Year
2024
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Seed
Visit Website
Unified
Onchain Finance & Financial Infrastructure

The collateral mobility layer between DeFi and TradFi

Year
2024
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Seed
Visit Website
Deck AI
Other

The AI copilot for buy-side investment teams

Year
2023
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Seed
Visit Website
Giza
Decentralized AI

Onchain AI agents for finance

Year
2023
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Seed
Visit Website
Hello Moon
Blockchain Infrastructure

Blockchain infrastructure provider

Year
2023
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Series A
Visit Website
Icebreaker
Consumer

Verified social graphs and cross-network recruiting

Year
2023
Stage
Seed
Visit Website
Li.Fi
Blockchain Infrastructure

Cross-chain liquidity aggregator for financial instutions

Year
2023
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Series A
Visit Website
Neutron
Blockchain Infrastructure

Cross-chain smart contract platform

Year
2023
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Seed
Visit Website
STON.fi
Onchain Finance & Financial Infrastructure

The leading decentralized exchange on TON

Year
2023
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Seed
Visit Website
Catena Labs
Onchain Finance & Financial Infrastructure

AI-native financial institution

Year
2022
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Seed
Visit Website
Earn Alliance Acquired
Consumer

Web3 gaming infrastructure and discovery

Year
2022
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Acquired
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TLDL
Other

AI notes for students

Year
2022
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Seed
Visit Website

Einar's Insights