Andrew Masanto
Co-Founder @ Nillion
New York, United States
Andrew Masanto (born 17 May 1982 Jakarta, Indonesia) is an American entrepreneur, co-founder of Nillion and Hedera. Andrew Masanto was the founding CMO of Reserve. Nillion is new internet infrastructure for the private storage, computation and decentralization of data. He has started two Cryptocurrency Unicorns. Andrew Masanto is a serialentrepreneur and investor. Andrew has been most recently active in the blockchain space as Co-Founder of Nillion, Founding CMO of Reserve, which is backed by Peter Thiel, Coinbase, and is currently valued at $1 billion, and Founding CMO of Hedera, a cryptocurrency with a fully diluted $20 billion valuation backed by Google, IBM, Boeing, and others.The internet marketing sector was where Andrew first found success (prior to Fintech). Higher Click SEO Agency, which Andrew started and sold, was acquired by a bigger digital marketing agency in the middle of 2014 after being sold once more. Harvard Business School and Oxford University have both hosted Andrew's online marketing lectures. As for growth marketing, he has been cited by a number of top professionals.Andrew was a dual-qualified lawyer in Australia and the UK before moving into the technology and marketing fields. He held positions as an investment banking analyst at Rothschild in Sydney, Australia, and as a lawyer at Linklaters, a Magic Circle UK law firm, in the UK.Academically, Andrew received a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws (double degree) from the University of Sydney, the most prestigious university in Australia. He graduated with both degrees on the Deans List and with First Class Honours. While still a student at the University of Sydney, Andrew was presented with (and accepted) a position tutoring and lecturing for the Accounting and Finance Faculty. This made him one of the youngest people to tutor and lecture at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Andrew Masanto invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 2 (100%)
- FinTech 1 (50%)
- Internet 1 (50%)
- Software 1 (50%)
- Cryptocurrency 1 (50%)
Investments
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PolymerLabs
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Polymer Labs is an infrastructure provider focused on IBC protocols. | $3.6M / Seed / Mar 02, 2022 | |
Fluidity
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Fluidity bridges traditional finance to decentralized infrastructure. | Seed / Sep 01, 2017 |
Co-Investors
About Nillion
Nillion is a computer and network security company that provides node operation that signifies implications for data, security, and privacy. The company decentralized public network based on a new cryptographic primitive called Nil Message Compute (NMC).
Nillion Contacts
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Andrew Masanto
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Andrei Lapets
Chief Technology Officer
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Christopher Ivey
investor
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Lindsay Danas Cohen
General Counsel
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Lukas Bruell
Co-Founder & Head of Ecosystem and AI Strategy
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