Calvin Liu
Chief Growth Officer at Eigen Foundation
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Growth Officer
2024 - Current
Investor
2020
https://div.vc
Divergence Ventures is a crypto operator fund.
Chief Strategy Officer
2022 - 2024
Eigen Labs is a research organization contributing to protocols that supercharge open innovation on Ethereum, including EigenLayer and EigenDA. https://eigenlabs.org
EigenLabs offers access to Ethereum's staked capital and validator set, supporting restaking, unstaking, and AVS management.
Strategy Lead
2018 - 2021
Created algorithmic money markets for Ethereum crypto assets. Backed by A16Z, Bain, Polychain, Paradigm, Dragonfly, and Coinbase, among others.
Compound is an open-source interest rate protocol that unlocks new financial applications.
Raised $70,834,255.00 from Davoa Capital, New Form Capital and TeleSoft Partners.
Data Analytics
2016 - 2018
Managed data infrastructure, reporting, analysis.
Gusto is an HR and payroll platform that simplifies complex tasks, empowering businesses to focus on what matters most.
Raised $746,100,000.00 from Partner Ventures.
Co-Founder
2014 - 2015
An app for users to anonymously write nice messages about their friends. Covered in WIRED. Grand Prize Winner of 196 entries in The Art of Living’s Happiness Apps Challenge.
Associate
2011 - 2014
Helped launch Promontory’s financial technology consulting practice, with a focus on crypto startups.
Analyst
2009 - 2011
Worked on technology M&A deals with total value over $1 billion, including acquisitions by Arrow Electronics, Microchip, and Flextronics.
Houlihan Lokey is an investment bank that offers financial services.
Education
BA
2005 - 2009