# Silvio Micali

> Silvio Micali is a startup investor at Algorand. See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Algorand](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/algorand)
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvio-micali-26bb37152/

Silvio Micali is a startup investor at Algorand. Silvio Micali is the founder of Algorand . Silvio Micali is a Turing award-winning cryptographer, and is a professor of computer science in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is also part of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Micali is one of the co-inventors of zero-knowledge proofs, andis best known for some of his fundamental early work on public-key cryptosystems, pseudorandom functions, digital signatures, Byzantine agreement and secure multiparty computation. In 1993, Micali won the Gödel Prize. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, The National Academy of Engineering, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Accademia dei Lincei.

## About Algorand

VC Fund · Boston, United States

Algorand is positioned to address the blockchain’s scaling challenges through rapid and efficient user consensus, enabling even the smallest transactions, regardless of transaction volume or number of users.

5 contacts available at Algorand.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jing Chen | Chief Scientist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jing-chen-5936 |
| John Jannotti | Head of Applied Research | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-jannotti |
| Naveed Ihsanullah | Head of Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/naveed-ihsanullah |
| Silvio Micali | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/silvio-micali |
| Arul Murugan | Lead Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arul-murugan-3 |

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