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Mahesh Vellanki

Advisor at Superlayer

United States

Overview 

Mahesh Vellanki is a seasoned professional with a background in advising and angel investing, notably co-founding and serving as Managing Partner at Superlayer. His career highlights include roles at Redpoint Ventures as Principal and Citi in Investment Banking, showcasing his expertise in venture capital and financial markets. Currently, Mahesh focuses on advising and investing in early-stage companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, leveraging his diverse skill set in mobile devices, e-commerce, and digital media.

Work Experience 

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YieldClub

  • Founder & CEO

    2025 - Current

    High yield crypto savings for all

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SuperLayer

  • Co-Founder and Managing Partner

    2021 - 2024

    Rally-funded venture studio incubating consumer crypto products such as https://www.unite.io/

SuperLayer is a Web3 venture studio that builds and supports new multi-chain, tokenized consumer products powered by the RLY Protocol.

superlayer.io
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RLY Network Association

  • Co-Founder

    2018 - 2021

    A permissionless, open toolkit for web3 mobile apps, featuring embedded wallets and gasless transactions. Previously launched Rally.io, a “social token” creator platform with 500 creators, $100M annualized txn volume, and multi-billion dollar peak market cap (RLY). I served in leadership roles spanning product, GTM, marketing/community, and G&A.

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Redpoint Ventures

  • Principal

    2012 - 2018

    Consumer investor for Redpoint's growth fund: DraftKings - Led Series B -> IPO (fund returner) Nubank - Series D -> IPO (fund returner) Guild Education - Led Series A -> unicorn Nextdoor - Led Series D -> IPO Bright Health - Series B -> IPO RaiseMe - Led Series A -> acq by CampusLogic

Redpoint partners with visionary founders to create new markets or redefine existing ones at the seed, early, and growth stages.

redpoint.com
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Citi

  • Investment Banking

    2010 - 2012

    Pushed buttons really fast in Excel and PowerPoint - M&A/IPOs for companies like Zillow, Groupon, Facebook, Equinix.

Citigroup is a financial services holding company that provides various financial products and services.

Raised $12,950,000,000.00 from ValueAct Capital and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

citigroup.com

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