Raghu Yarlagadda
Raghu is the Co-founder and CEO of FalconX, one of the largest and fastest growing digital asset brokerages. He's an engineer by background and passionate about building products that create value – leading him to become a serial entrepreneur, product leader, active investor, and board advisor to several Silicon Valley startups. Prior to FalconX, Raghu held product leadership roles in Google. He was on Sundar Pichai’s Chrome OS team and led efforts to scale Chromebooks to over $3 billion revenue for Google and its partners. He started his career at Motorola as an engineer in a team that pioneered high definition video transmission over IP stack, laying the technical foundation for many popular video streaming services such as Netflix and Youtube.
Raghu holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, M.S. from University of Texas at Dallas specializing in Signal Processing & Machine Learning, and B.Tech. from Vellore Institute of Technology.
FalconX
FalconX is building connective tissue for the tokenized economy of the future. Its integrated solution enables institutions to transact billions of dollars in cryptocurrency trading, credit, and clearing. The firm’s vision is that all institutional investors and corporate treasuries will hold digital assets in the next 5 years including Bitcoin, digital dollars, or tokenized real world assets. FalconX wants to be the premier infrastructure provider that supports these multi trillion dollar asset classes. The firm enables qualified clients to earn yield and trade on margin through its credit product, which saw volumes increase to over $3 billion in Q4 2020 helping drive its net revenue 46x during the last year. FalconX has offices in the US, India, and Malta.