About Solana Foundation
The Solana Foundation is a non-profit organization headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, dedicated to the decentralization, growth, and security of the Solana network. It supports the Solana ecosystem through grants, investments, validator programs, developer education, and global hackathons. Its primary beneficiaries are developers building decentralized applications on the high-performance Solana blockchain, which uses a unique Proof-of-History consensus mechanism.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$374M
Last stage
Series C
Investors
Founders
Anatoly Yakovenko
Anatoly Yakovenko founded Solana in 2017 at Solana Labs after spending over a decade at Qualcomm working on distributed systems and compression algorithms.
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Raj Gokal
Raj Gokal joined as co-founder, leveraging venture capital experience to build developer partnerships and secure strategic funding.
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Greg Fitzgerald contributed early engineering expertise, implementing Solana's core codebase in Rust programming language.
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