Zerion
Abi Dharshan is the Product Lead for the Zerion API and a Co-Founder of Social Graph Ventures and Hydra Ventures, the first venture DAO fund of funds. He has been building, investing, and writing at the intersection of capital markets, web3, and AI since his late teens.
At Zerion, Abi leads the REST API and webhooks powering onchain datainfrastructure for wallets and dapps like Rainbow Wallet, Uniswap Wallet, and Farcaster. Zerion is one of the world’s leading onchain asset management platforms, with over 500,000 monthly active users and $2 billion in transaction volume.
As a venture builder, Abi helped incubate Social Graph Ventures and Hydra Ventures, pioneering DAOs investing in next-gen funds like OrangeDAO (YC founder DAO) and Xoogler Ventures (ex-Google alumni). He previously invested in fintech at Radical Ventures, a $350 million AI-focused fund.
Prior to this, Abi held product and growth roles scaling multi-million dollar technologies at Wolfram|Alpha and other startups, with a focus on user-centric design, API infrastructure, and global go-to-market strategy. His work has spanned across the US, UK, Germany, Japan, South Korea, India, UAE, and Argentina.
Abi earned his B.S. in Computational Sciences and Business from Minerva University, graduating summa cum laude. Minerva has a 2% acceptance rate and is backed by Benchmark, SpaceX, Netflix, ByteDance, and TAL.
He is also a fellow of On Deck and Gitcoin KERNEL, and writes regularly at https://twitter.com/abishekinguout
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Zerion
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Zerion is a web3 smart, social wallet and investing tool that enables anyone to manage their DeFi and NFT portfolios. With a relentless focus on user-centered design and a technology stack that aggregates across every major wallet, network and decentralized exchange, users are offered a single point of entry for managing their digital assets, including NFTs. Zerion is non-custodial, which means users never delegate their funds to the platform. This agile approach mitigates centralization risk and has allowed Zerion to operate globally since inception. The company was founded in 2019 by Evgeny Yurtaev (CEO), Alexey Bashlykov (CTO) and Vadim Koleoshkin (COO) with the mission to empower more people around the world with efficient, permissionless and transparent financial services. They raised their seed round in 2019 and Series A in 2021. Since then, Zerion has built an award-winning interface that serves more than 200K monthly active users from over 150 countries. Zerion has processed over $1B in transaction volume, seeing $5M traded per day on average with a median trade size of $1,000.