Sergey Nazarov

Sergey Nazarov Sergey has a premium accountClick to upgrade to Premium CEO of SmartContract.com San Francisco Bay Area About -- Current Focus -- Solving the smart contract external connectivity/middleware problem so that web developers, fintech developers, IoT developers and smart contract developers on various networks can build fully functional smart contracts for production/live use cases. -- General Thesis on Smart Contracts-- Tamper-proof contractual execution is the future of both high-value financial agreements (derivatives, insurance, trade finance, etc...) and micro-transactions (IoT payments, Ad payments, Mobile payments, etc... ). Tamper-proof computable contracts known as "smart contracts" have emerged to define a new part of the internet run entirely on decentralized infrastructure, with blockchains for storage and smart contract networks for compute. This new part of the internet is able to secure higher value data than ever before due to private/public keys as one of it's fundamental building blocks, initially creating the Internet of Money (Bitcoin) and now seeing the emergence of an Internet of Contracts (Ethereum). We should all come to expect cryptographically provable accountability for high-value financial agreements and tamper-proof smart contracts stored in decentralized infrastructure and executed by a decentralized computing network, will massively reduce non-performance risk, eliminate certain insurance/legal costs and create valuable trust, which leads to superior deal terms. -- My Perspective on Daily Life -- We must stand upright ourselves, not be setup. ~ Marcus Aurelius Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration. ~ Thomas Edison If one does not know to what port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. ~ Seneca Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end. ~Seneca This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Experience SmartContract CoFounder & CEO Company NameSmartContract Dates EmployedSep 2014 – Present Employment Duration6 yrs 4 mos LocationSan Francisco Bay Area We bring smart contracts to life by connecting them to to external data and widely accepted bank payments. Providing critical middleware that connects smart contracts to the data sources, APIs and payment networks they need to meaningfully interact with the world outside their smart contract network. No alt text provided for this image World Economic Forum Tipping Point Report World Economic Forum Tipping Point Report Secure Asset Exchange CoFounder & CEO Company NameSecure Asset Exchange Dates EmployedMay 2014 – Jan 2016 Employment Duration1 yr 9 mos LocationSan Francisco Bay Area Smart Contracts for realtime revenue sharing with multi-signature escrow to insure performance. SAE never has custody of any user-generated tokens because it provides secure web-based access to a decentralized exchange network (NXT), run on 100s of independent nodes, which securely store all token ownership data, while also matching, settling and clearing all buy/sell orders entirely on the network. At its height SAE provided secure access to 600+ user generated smart contracts, which had 260,000+ buy/sell orders executed entirely on the network, with an average matching, settlement and clearing time of only 2 minutes. see less No alt text provided for this image Smart Contracts for Realtime Revenue Sharing Smart Contracts for Realtime Revenue Sharing CryptaMail Cofounder & CEO Company NameCryptaMail Dates EmployedMay 2014 – Jul 2014 Employment Duration3 mos LocationGreater New York City Area Secure, 100% decentralized email that ONLY YOU can access! No central server = No third party to trust with your data There is no central point that stores your messages, so there is nowhere to steal or even submit a request for your private data. Even we cannot locate your messages or derive your password, ever. ONLY those who know your password and the intended recipient of the message have access. We use the recently released NXT blockchain to do for email what Bitcoin has done for payments; make them tamper-proof by placing the data they are made up of outside the control of any one central actor. -- Cryptamail was the first implementation of blockchain-based messaging to avoid a centralized server security risk, it reached public beta, but was in a crowded secure email communications space where the best solutions commonly faced extreme government scrutiny and/or intervention. see less QED Capital General Partner Company NameQED Capital Dates EmployedFeb 2011 – Apr 2014 Employment Duration3 yrs 3 mos LocationNew York City <​-> Moscow & Saint Petersburg QED Capital provided founder friendly venture capital to highly technical founding teams in Russia and Eastern Europe. We add value by helping great technical teams go to market and sign distribution deals in the US and Europe through our extensive network of partners. We also provided time tested customer acquisition, fundraising, hiring and product development insights from senior executives in leading consumer internet and enterprise software companies in the US and Europe. -- After the first Bitcoin price spike to $30+ (June 2011) QED Capital turned its attention towards cryptocurrency research and mining. With the emergence of altcoins that offered the first smart contract functionality, we refocused on applying blockchains beyond cryptocurrency and the real world applicability of smart contracts. Through research, extensive technical due diligence and active participation in multiple cryptocurrency communities, QED eventually led to the creation of an expert technical team that would make the first blockchain-based webmail (CryptaMail), and one of the first live/widely used decentralized applications that used smart contract to move real value (Secure Asset Exchange). see less ExistLocal Inc. CoFounder & CEO Company NameExistLocal Inc. Dates EmployedMar 2009 – Feb 2011 Employment Duration2 yrs LocationNew York City ExistLocal was a peer to peer marketplace for authentic local experiences; providing adventurous travelers with peer-to-peer access to truly exciting, sometimes life changing and "off the beaten path" activities made by locals. Offering users access to unique local activities via an online marketplace that simplified the discovery and purchase of "off the beaten path" experiences created by locals. Our value was allowing top quality individual activity providers to create an attractive online presence which was optimized for P2P online sales. Connecting high-quality individual activity providers directly to consumers at all points in their decision process: pre-trip (website), in-transit (product placement via partnerships) and upon arrival (mobile). see less FirstMark Capital Intern-in-Residence --> Associate Company NameFirstMark Capital Dates EmployedApr 2009 – Nov 2010 Employment Duration1 yr 8 mos LocationNew York City Presenting prospective investments to the partnership for approval and attending board meetings at portfolio companies like SecondMarket to help the firm provide value. Part of a seven person investment team which during my tenure managed $2Bn+ and invested $90MM+ in Seed, A, B and C venture financings, as seen below: Pinterest.com, Seed: $500K (2016 Valuation of $11Bn) Riot Games (League of Legends), Series C: $8MM (Acq by Tencent for $400MM) Lot18, Series A: $3MM Knewton, Series C: $12.5MM Conductor, Series B: $10MM AppFirst, Seed/Series A: $2.5MM YouAre.TV, Series A: $1.15MM StatusNet, Series A: $1.27MM MyCityWay, Seed: $1MM Market Factory, Seed: $1MM Payoff.com, Seed: $1.7MM Turiya Media, Seed: $1MM IMImobile, Growth: $13MM Facet Solutions, Series C: $3.6MM Sadra Medical, Series C: $30MM PackLate.com, Seed: $685K see less NYU Stern School of Business Teaching Fellow Company NameNYU Stern School of Business Dates EmployedJan 2010 – May 2010 Employment Duration5 mos LocationNew York City Teaching Fellow for Professor Lawrence Lenihan's (CEO of FirstMark Capital) technology entrepreneurship course; "Ready, FIRE!, Aim." I had the great privilege and pleasure of working with Professor Lenihan on making this a better course for educating undergraduates about the key points required to make a sustainable technology company; helping develop the curriculum, presenting on the subject of effective networking and working with individual teams on their early stage technology company. see less Show fewer experiences Education New York University New York University Degree NameB.A.Field Of StudyPhilosophy and ManagementActivities and Societies: Debate Team (Policy)