☀️ When I talk about teams in crypto, I only talk about the real builders
The people who stay committed, who actually ship, who turn ideas into working infrastructure.
And if there’s one team that embodies that energy more than anyone, it’s @zama 🌞🌱
They’re not chasing hype, they’re building the foundation of on-chain privacy and encrypted AI with discipline, research and execution with already proven records of delivered products.
✨🌿Here’s the Family of Zama🌿✨
🌞 Leaders of ZAMA
☀️ Dr. Rand Hindi (@randhindi) • Co-founder, CEO
Rand isn’t your typical founder he’s a lifelong builder.
Started coding at 10, launched a social network at 14, a web agency at 15, and jumped into ML at 18 before starting his PhD at 21.
🎓 Background & Achievements
• BSc CS + PhD Bioinformatics at UCL
• MIT TR35 (top 35 innovators under 35)
• Forbes 30 Under 30
• Lecturer at Sciences Po
• Member of the French Digital Council advising on AI & privacy
💼 Journey
Before Zama (2020), he founded Snips, a privacy-first voice AI startup acquired by Sonos.
Now he leads Zama and invests as a GP at Unit Ventures, backing 100+ companies in crypto, AI and biotech.
🌟 Why He Matters
Rand bridges academic cryptography with real-world products bringing privacy-preserving computation to blockchain and AI at a time the world needs it most.
🌿 Dr. Pascal Paillier (@pascalpaillier) • CTO & Head of Cryptography
Pascal isn’t just a cryptographer he’s the guy who invented Paillier encryption back in 1999, a scheme still powering modern cryptography 25 years later.
🎓 Background & Achievements
• PhD in Cryptography (Telecom Paris)
• Pioneer in FHE
• Led cryptography innovation at Gemalto (now Thales)
• Founder of CryptoExperts
• 2025 IACR Fellow (top honor in cryptography)
• Contributor to multiple ISO cryptography standards
🔐 Expertise
Decades of work across smart card security, FHE, and large-scale cryptographic systems.
🌼 Key Zama Team Members
🌱 @mortendahlcs • VP Blockchain
Cryptographer scaling FHE for confidential smart contracts and fhEVM.
Scaling FHE for private EVM.
🌞 @immortofu • Senior Engineering Director
Leads engineering for Zama Protocol and fhEVM.
Engineering Director of Zama driving fhEVM and privacy-preserving blockchain infrastructure.
��� @abbeyjaz • Ecosystem Lead
Growing partners, builders and community around Zama.
🌱 @ch0k0bn • Privacy Engineer
Building encrypted computation for private dApps.
🌞 @gkigiermo • Cryptography Engineer
Optimizing cryptographic performance inside the FHE stack.
🌿 @ankurb • Senior Product Director
Former co-founder and CTO at cheqd. Leading FHE product strategy.
🌼 @jeremyzacch • VP Marketing & DevRel
Leading storytelling, education and builder outreach for FHE.
🌱 @binoua_cml • VP Product Engineering
Overseeing FHE libraries, Concrete and encrypted ML tooling.
🌞 @poppyseedDev • DevRel Engineer
Helping builders integrate FHE into their dApps.
🌿 @louis_tttt • R&D Engineer
Researching scalable verifiable private computation.
🌱 @bencrts • Cryptography Researcher
Advancing FHE research for encrypted blockchain systems.
🌞 @fd0r_ • ML and FHE Engineer
Building privacy-preserving AI and encrypted ML inference.
🌻 Why This Team Matters 🌻
This team isn’t here for hype they’re here to build the future and backbone of blockchain
🌞 The inventor of Paillier encryption
🌱 Decades of applied cryptography experience
🌿 A founder with billion-dollar deep-tech success
🌼 Researchers treating FHE like sunlight and growing it into real infrastructure
🌻 A collective mission to bring private computation on-chain and into AI for everyone
These are the builders who actually commit to what they say and it shows in the results. 🌳✨
🌞 The Backing Behind Zama Speaks Volumes
The team has raised over 150 million dollars at a one billion dollar valuation 🌿💰
Backed by elite investors who support long-term, deep-tech execution:
🌻 Multicoin Capital (@multicoin )
🌞 Pantera Capital (@PanteraCapital)
🌿 Blockchange (@BlockchangeVC)
🌱 Protocol Labs (@protocollabs)
And the belief from crypto’s biggest founders is even louder:
🌞 Juan Benet (IPFS / Filecoin) (@juanbenet)
🌿 Gavin Wood (Ethereum / Polkadot) (@gavofyork)
🌻 Anatoly Yakovenko (Solana) (@toly)
When the people who built the foundations of modern crypto align behind a team, it’s because they see the next layer of the future forming. 🌞🌱🌿
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