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Juan Benet

Juan Benet

Founder and CEO

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Juan Benet is the founder of Protocol Labs and GP of PLC Neurotech. He is a frontier technology investor across neurotech, AI, biotech, and crypto. Some of his high-conviction, contrarian bets include: Bitcoin (2013), Ethereum (2014), Starkware (2018), Science (2021), Lambda (2021), Gordian Bio (2021), Until Labs (2021), Orchid (2022), Zama (2022), BitRobot (2025), Aleph (2026). He previously built IPFS, Filecoin, the SAFT, CoinList. He studied Computer Science at Stanford University, and is obsessed with knowledge, science, and technology.

Education

  • MS in Computer Science - Stanford University (2012)
  • BS in Computer Science - Stanford University (2010)

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