Angel Investor Balaji Srinivasan Invests In Blockchain Start-Up Permissionless

Updated on: 2 December 2022 11:28 pm

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Blockchain start-up Permissionless announces the name of its first Investor. Prominent angel investor and former CTO of Coinbase, Balaji Srinivasan recently invested (amount undisclosed) in Async, an open-source borderless work ecosystem built by Permissionless, a first in India, launched recently.

Permissionless, within just 5 months of its entry into the FOSS and Blockchain technology space, has already grown to a team of more than 60 people with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, New York, and Dubai. The GenZ team at Permissionless is creating a real-time ecosystem for work where Async will incorporate multiple projects to improve efficiency for contributors and managers to get work done in the coming months.

Founded by 24-year-old Roshan Vadassery along with established blockchain figureheads Krunal Ghorpade and Rick Zen in July 2022, Permissionless launched Async just last week to gamify productivity; where there will always be a supply for anyone looking out for work via blockchain to ensure complete transparency to everyone and for transactions to take place in real-time using tokens.

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The token sale for Async went live recently as their first public seed round where the company raised over 2,50,000 $ via community support, likely a new space for the industry to watch out for in terms of funding and raising support.

On this new launch, Roshan Vadassery- founder of Permissionless and philanthropist comments, “Balaji Srinivasan is an inspiration and a big brother to young entrepreneurs who work on novel solutions to complex problems. We at Permissionless feel nothing but joy to have him place his belief with us in spreading and building public infrastructure to support a real network state one day. With Async, we plan to utilize the funding to scale the number of contributors on the platform and create more integrated productivity tools for borderless and asynchronous work.”

Launched in July 2022 by 24-year-old philanthropist and investor Roshan Vadassery, Permissionless is one of the latest entrants in the Indian blockchain and start-up ecosystem. It's been actively involved in building and promoting open-source software infrastructure leveraging blockchain and artificial intelligence.