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Robert Witoff

Founder of Unit 410

Austin, Texas

Overview 

Robert Witoff is a highly accomplished professional with a diverse career spanning roles at Google, Coinbase, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he served as Chief Architect, Director of Infrastructure & Security, and Data Scientist, respectively. He has a strong background in systems engineering and software development, and has made significant contributions to the fields of cryptocurrency infrastructure and data science. Witoff's career highlights include co-founding Unit 410 and serving as the Chief Technology Officer at Polychain Capital, demonstrating his expertise in entrepreneurship and leadership in the technology sector. His experience at top-tier organizations like Google and JPL further solidify his reputation as a versatile and innovative technologist.

Work Experience 

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Coinbase

  • Head of Platform

    2024 - Current

    Bringing the next billion users onchain.

Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups.

ventures.coinbase.com
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Unit 410

  • Board Member

    2024

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2018 - 2024

    Institutional Cold Storage & Staking

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Polychain Capital

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2018 - 2021

    Artisanal hash functions

Polychain Capital invests in cryptocurrency and blockchain assets.

Raised $10,000,000.00 from Alexander Pack, DCM Ventures, Pantera Capital, DHVC, Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Abstract.

polychain.capital
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Google

  • Security

    2017 - 2018

    Detection & Response Engineering

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.

google.com
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Coinbase

  • Chief Architect

    2017 - 2017

    One → Many Delightful Services

  • Director of Infrastructure & Security

    2014 - 2017

    Many 3rd Parties → Hardened AWS. Containerized, Immutable infrastructure. Security, Consensus, Redteaming, Pentests, Detection & Response. Data, Streaming, Analytics.... and just about everything else.

Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups.

ventures.coinbase.com
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JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

  • Data Scientist in CTO's Office

    2013 - 2014

    The first ITAR workloads in GovCloud, institutional search, realtime query & analysis tools for the mars curiosity rover, people analytics and a lot of security

  • OPALS Space Station Systems Engineering Lead

    2009 - 2013

    NASA's first operation LEO laser communication satellite. Managed all interfaces with the Internal Space Station. Flew on SpaceX's (CRS3 - F9) first flight to ISS.

  • Software Engineer

    2009 - 2011

    Engineering lead on Navigation Software used by the Dawn and Rosetta missions.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center managed for NASA.

jpl.nasa.gov

CU DIV

  • Co-Founder

    2008 - 2010

    Development club pairing hackers with non-profits to do good.

Apigy

  • Co-Founder

    2009 - 2009

    Delivery Automation. Y Combinator S09.

Chalktalk

  • Founder

    2006 - 2009

    Communication software for schools.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  • Constellation Program Systems Engineering

    2008 - 2008

    Constellation Program Engineering.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center managed for NASA.

jpl.nasa.gov

Education 

Investments 

Witness

Seed

Total funding: $4M

Perennial Labs

Seed

Total funding: $12M

Resourcely

Seed

Total funding: $8M

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