About Linera

Linera is the first blockchain infrastructure optimized to provide web3 applications with unprecedented horizontal scaling, bringing the infinite scalability of Web2 to Web3. Founded by Mathieu Baudet, a former Meta/Novi engineer and researcher with a PhD in cryptographic protocols, Linera redefines blockchain scalability by pioneering microchains – lightweight chains that operate in parallel within a common set of validators.

Mathieu Baudet (Founder/CEO of Linera) holds a PhD in security protocols and years of experience building distributed systems as an infrastructure engineer at Meta. As a researcher on Libra/Novi, he worked on an academic protocol called FastPay which laid the foundations for the Linera protocol.

Timeline

Founded in 2021 by Mathieu Baudet, former researcher at Libra/Novi and co-author of the FastPay academic paper. Raised $6 MM in seed fundraising in 2022 led by a16z crypto.
Released whitepaper in 2022. Invited to give research talks at the Science of Blockchain Conference ‘22 (Stanford) as well as Aptos Labs and Chainlink Research in 2023.
Made initial SDK available for testing in 2023 and launched the first Linera Developer School program, a four-week program for developers to learn Linera’s new multi-chain programming paradigm and build on the SDK.
Raised an additional $6 million investment round, for a total of $12 million to date in seed funding. The round was led by Borderless Capital, with participation from Laser Digital Ventures, DFG, Cadenza, Block1, Eterna Capital, MH Ventures, Matrixport, L2IV, ArkStream, Flow Traders, GSR Markets, and OWC, with continued support from a16z crypto, Tribe Capital, and Cygni Capital, who participated in the initial seed round.
Thanks to the new funding, Linera will be expanding the team, launching a devnet and a testnet for the protocol and fostering a strategic presence in the APAC region while continuing to grow their developer school.

Introducing microchains

Linera redefines blockchain scalability by pioneering microchains – lightweight chains that operate in parallel within a common set of validators. The Linera system scales by adding chains, not by increasing the size or the production rate of blocks.

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Meet Linera

Mathieu Baudet

Founder/CEO
Mathieu is a former Meta Software Engineer and Blockchain Researcher. As a founding member of the Novi project, he contributed to the Diem blockchain and co-authored the protocols LibraBFT, FastPay, and Zef.
Bernadette Cay

COO
Bernadette launched products at Google, across Chrome, Google Maps, and AdWords. She scaled products, infrastructure, and teams at MoPub, the mobile ad exchange acquired by Twitter.
Janito Vaqueiro Ferreira Filho

Software Engineer
Janito is a Senior Software Engineer at Linera and former Rust contributor to the Zebra project for the ZCash Foundation.
Mathieu Dutour

Software Engineer
Mathieu is a Software Engineer with experience in high performance computing, blockchain, databases and high frequency trading. He is a former researcher in mathematics and co-author of four books in science and engineering.
Christos Hadjiaslanis

Software Engineer
Christos is a Software Engineer with experience building quantitative trading systems and developer tooling. He has experience maintaining large open source Rust projects including Shuttle (YC S20) and Synth.
Andreas Fackler

Software Engineer
Andreas is a Mathematician and Software Engineer. He has contributed to the research and implementation of several consensus protocols and decentralized networks.
Andre da Silva

Software Engineer

Andre is a Senior Software Engineer who has helped develop backend, frontend, full-stack, and mobile systems at Meta.
Michał Król

Scientific Advisor
Michał is an Advisor at Linera and a Lecturer at City, University of London working on networks, internet measurements, blockchains, and the efficiency of distributed systems.
Jesse Pariselli

Head of Community Growth
Jesse is a web3 community and operations specialist. He managed the first startup incubator program for projects building on the Arweave protocol.
Vivian Morgado

Business Operations
Vivian is a project manager who led entity incorporation and employee rights research around the world. She is passionate about startups and developing company culture.