Mariano Sorgente

Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Mariano Sorgente

Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Brooklyn, New York

Overview

Mariano Sorgente is an engineer and venture capitalist with a background at Andreessen Horowitz and experience in leading engineering teams at Chia Network and Token, Inc. He specializes in Web3/Blockchain technologies and has a strong foundation in computer science, cryptography, and system architecture. Highlights of his career include serving as an Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and contributing as an Engineering Manager at Chia Network, showcasing his expertise in both investment strategies and technical leadership within the crypto space.

Work Experience

Andreessen Horowitz

Investment Partner
2022 - 2024
Crypto investment team.

Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.

a16z.com

Chia Network

Engineering Manager
2022 - 2022
Leading the blockchain team at Chia.
Senior Software Engineer
2018 - 2022
Developed the Chia consensus algorithm codebase and peer to peer network from scratch. The network has hundreds of thousands of nodes (more than any other chain) and 20+ EiB active as of June 2023. Implemented modern cryptography primitives including BLS signatures, verifiable delay functions and proofs of space, and protocols such as Chia's secure pooling protocol.

Chia Network is building a blockchain platform based on Proofs of Space and Time.

Raised $69,695,000.00 from True Ventures, Naval Ravikant, Pnyx Ventures, Slow Ventures, DHVC, Breyer Capital, Jacket River, Collab+Currency, Cygni Capital and Richmond Global Ventures.

chia.net

Token, Inc.

Engineering Lead
2018 - 2018
Engineering lead for frontend development at Token. Involved in developing and designing a secure payment system for banks, merchants, and end users. Work includes bank integrations, product & project management, system architecture, mobile and web development, security, and presales.
Software Engineer
2015 - 2018
Worked on engineering, design and architecture of the system, and product.

Eco

Initial Contributor and Advisor
2018 - 2018
Worked on crypto-economics, protocol design, and brainstorming ideas for a cryptocurrency platform.

Stanford University

Research Assistant Virtual Reality Lab
2015 - 2015
Use Vizard and python to explore virtual reality applications, specifically with regards to human interaction in VR.

Amazon

Software Development Engineer Intern
2014 - 2014
Worked as an SDE on AWS networking. Used docker virtualization to improve the build process of an operating system, and created an OS-image repository to store finished build images and partial build states.

Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

Raised $8,108,000,000.00 from DBS Bank and Mizuho Bank.

amazon.com