Jesse Proudman
Jesse Proudman is the co-founder, president, and CTO of Venice, the privacy-first AI platform he leads alongside Erik Voorhees, which reached $100 million in annualized revenue and a $1 billion valuation within two years of launch. He first built Blue Box Group, a private cloud computing company on OpenStack that raised more than $22 million before IBM acquired it in 2015, after which he served as an IBM Distinguished Engineer leading blockchain initiatives. He went on to found Strix Leviathan, a quantitative crypto trading firm later acquired by Parataxis Capital, and Makara, the first SEC-registered crypto robo-advisor, which Betterment acquired in 2022 and where he then served as VP of Crypto Investing. A Seattle-based entrepreneur for more than two decades, he was named GeekWire's Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2014.