People
Meet the Ethereal Ventures Team

Praneeth is a Technical Investment Partner on the founding team on Ethereal Ventures. Previously, he did venture investing at Consensys and started his career with product & engineering roles at Microsoft and Oracle. He has a bachelors in CS from IIT Bombay. He spends time between Berlin and India and speaks six languages.

Federico is a NY licensed transactional attorney with experience in public equity-linked derivatives transactions, start-up representation and other general securities and corporate work. Since 2017, he has been closely involved with all of ConsenSys Mesh's investment, incubation and acceleration activities. As of 2023, he serves as COO & GC at Mesh.

Robert is Head of Research at Ethereal Ventures, leads R&D at Consensys Mesh, and is Director of Connext Foundation. He lives in Silicon Valley, where he founded Pluribus Networks, whose software-defined networking runs Ericsson's 5G cloud core, and led R&D labs at Oracle and Sun Microsystems.

Alex is a Technical Partner of Ethereal Ventures. Previously, he was a security auditor at Consensys Diligence. As a Chemistry major turned Computer Science dropout, Alex understands things by deconstructing them and rebuilding from first principles, and applies this approach to the companies he works with.

Mike is a Venture Partner at Ethereal Ventures, and the CEO of ConsenSys Mesh. He participates in many leading DAOs and serves as a board member on various crypto companies such as Candy and ConsenSys Software. Previously, he was COO of Mashable and other leading digital media companies. He lives in NYC.