Mahesh Vellanki
Advisor at Superlayer
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Advisor
2024 - Current
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
2021 - 2024
Venture studio incubating consumer crypto products such as... https://www.unite.io/ https://www.kalashapp.com/ https://www.onjoyride.com/ ...And many more
SuperLayer is a Web3 venture studio that builds and supports new multi-chain, tokenized consumer products powered by the RLY Protocol.
Co-Founder
2018 - 2021
Web3 mobile toolkit that enables developers to create frictionless, end-to-end onchain experiences on native mobile apps. Previously launched Rally.io, a “social token” creator platform with over 400 creators and $100M annualized txn volume. I served in leadership roles spanning product, GTM, marketing/community, G&A and more.
Co-Founder
2019 - 2021
Partnering with game developers to launch real digital economies.
Forte is an economic technology for games that powers NFTs and rich token economies.
Raised $910,000,000.00 from Samsung NEXT’s Q Fund, zVentures, Solana, Animoca Brands, Overwolf, PLAYSTUDIOS, Griffin Gaming Partners, Warner Music Group, Cosmos Network and California Technology Ventures.
Principal
2012 - 2018
Consumer investor for Redpoint's growth fund: DraftKings - Led Series B -> IPO (fund returner) Nubank - Series D -> IPO (fund returner) Guild Education - Led Series A -> unicorn Nextdoor - Led Series D -> IPO Bright Health - Series B -> IPO RaiseMe - Led Series A -> acq by CampusLogic
Redpoint partners with visionary founders to create new markets or redefine existing ones at the seed, early, and growth stages.
Investment Banking
2010 - 2012
Pushed buttons really fast in Excel and PowerPoint - M&A/IPOs for companies like Zillow, Groupon, Facebook, Equinix.
Citigroup is a financial services holding company that provides various financial products and services.
Raised $12,950,000,000.00 from ValueAct Capital and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.