Rank #2499
Nikil Viswanathan
Net worth $1.5B
Blockchain technology · United States
- Born
- Oct 16, 1987
- Age
- 38
- Source
- Blockchain technology
- Residence
- San Francisco, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Single
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Stanford; Master of Arts/Science, Stanford
Net worth over time
Biography
- Nikil Viswanathan cofounded Alchemy, whose software powers thousands of blockchain-based Web3 companies.
- Alchemy, founded in 2020, was valued by private investors at $10.2 billion in February 2022; Viswanathan owns an estimated 26% stake.
- Forbes estimates that Alchemy is now worth around $6 billion as the valuations of private tech companies have generally fallen from their peaks in early 2022.
- In December 2021, the company announced the launch of Alchemy Ventures, which invests in current clients with the goal of bootstrapping the industry.
- Viswanathan and cofounder Joe Lau, both Stanford grads, found initial success with meetup app Down to Lunch, briefly topping the Apple Store charts.
- Alchemy's team consists of engineers from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn and Pinterest, some of them college friends of Viswanathan and Lau.