Marek Olszewski
President at Valora
Germany
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2025 - Current
Co-Founded Self Protocol, which lets you prove attributes about your *Self* privately and without a counterparty, using zkPassport technology
Chief Executive Officer
2017
Building the best Ethereum L2 for mobile and payments. Come join the ecosystem!
President
2021
Building the next global Venmo. Try it out at valora.xyz
Valora is a mobile wallet that allows you to send, save, and spend crypto as easily as sending a text
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Valor Capital Group, Bossanova Investimentos, April Underwood, Nitesh Banta, NFX, Wedbush Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Nima Capital, SV Angel and Intersection Fintech Ventures.
VP of Engineering
2013 - 2017
GoDaddy is an internet domain registrar and web hosting company facilitating online businesses.
Raised $2,263,000,000.00 from Starboard Value.
Founder / CTO
2010 - 2013
(Acquired by GoDaddy)
Locus mission is to help local businesses thrive.
Raised $4,600,000.00 from Lowercase Capital, General Catalyst, Quotidian Ventures, Venture Hacks, DCVC, Lightbank, Naval Ravikant and SV Angel.
Research Assistant
2007 - 2012
Research Intern
2010 - 2010
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Research Intern
2009 - 2009
Sun Microsystems is a multinational vendor of computers, computer software and hardware, and information technology services.
Raised $1,700,000.00 from Kleiner Perkins.
Research Intern
2008 - 2008
Sun Microsystems is a multinational vendor of computers, computer software and hardware, and information technology services.
Raised $1,700,000.00 from Kleiner Perkins.
Intern Software Engineer
2007 - 2007
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.