Adam Back

Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Angel

Having worked on e-cash protocols since 1995, Adam is an applied cryptographer and inventor of the hashcash proof-of-work and decentralized mining used in Bitcoin.In addition to implementing credlib, he was an e-cash consultant to Nokia and later to Credentica (acquired by Microsoft). Adam was an architect and cryptographer at Zero-Knowledge Systems working on its Freedom network, a precursor to Tor. He has also consulted for leading security companies, including oneID, Vmware and QWcap. Most recently, Adam co-founded Picorp, which was acquired by EMC and where he was CSO of the company’s consumer division, Decho. Adam holds a Ph.D. in distributed systems and computer science from the University of Exeter.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
2
Adam Back has made 2 investments. Their most recent investment was on Sep 21, 2021, when Portal raised $8.50M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Sep 21, 2021 Portal Series Unknown $8.50M Bitcoin Detail
Aug 3, 2020 Pixelmatic Private Equity(PE) $3.10M Bitcoin Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
1
Adam Back has 1 current jobs including CEO at Blockstream , .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Blockstream CEO Jan 1, 2014 Detail