Where does Will Kantaros work?

Will Kantaros is Founder of Decent and Research Advisor at Archetype.

What does Will Kantaros invest in?

Will Kantaros invests in Crypto & Web3.

Where did Will Kantaros go to school?

Will Kantaros studied at Brown University (Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics-Computer Science); Phillips Academy.

Will Kantaros

InvestorFounder

Research Advisor at Archetype · Founder at Decent

New York City Metropolitan Area

FoundedDecent · YC

About

Will Kantaros is a Research Advisor at Archetype, where he works on mechanism design research and the interoperability stack. He is also Co-Founder and CTO of Decent, a company building cross-chain, single-click payments. He previously held roles at Meta, Coinbase, and Polychain.

Invests in

Crypto & Web3

Founder at Decent YC W22

Intro paths

Will went through Y Combinator (Winter 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Will can intro founders to Decent's investors below.

Decent's investors · 4

ArchetypeNew York · $100K – $10M checks BitDAO Mantle Network Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2022

Co-founders at Decent

Charlie DurbinFounder

Alexander CarlsonFounder

Will CollierFounder

Experience

DecentCo-Foundercurrent2021 — present
Polychain CapitalResearcher2022 — 2023
MetaSWE2022
CoinbaseSoftware Engineer Intern2022
MongoDBSoftware Engineer Intern2021New York, New York, United States
Brown UniversityHead Teaching Assistant, DATA10502020Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Skills & more

Business Development1Data Science1OCamlSoftware DevelopmentJavaScriptNode.jsScalaPython (Programming Language)JavaMicrosoft Excel1GraphQLRussian1

Languages English · Russian

From Will's professional profile.

Colleagues at Archetype

Aadharsh Pannirselvam

Investor at Archetype

Andrew Hong

Research Advisor at Archetype

Ash Egan

Founder and General Partner at Archetype

Ben Tenenbaum

Chief Financial Officer at Archetype

Danny Sursock

Partner at Archetype

David Wong

Research Advisor at Archetype

Dmitriy Berenzon

Partner at Archetype

Eskender Abebe

Product Research Partner at Archetype

Frequently asked questions

Who is Will Kantaros?: Will Kantaros is a Research Advisor at Archetype, where he works on mechanism design research and the interoperability stack. He is also Co-Founder and CTO of Decent, a company building cross-chain, single-click payments. He previously held roles at Meta, Coinbase, and Polychain.
Where does Will Kantaros work?: Will Kantaros is Founder of Decent and Research Advisor at Archetype.
What does Will Kantaros invest in?: Will Kantaros invests in Crypto & Web3.
What companies did Will Kantaros found?: Will Kantaros founded Decent.
Where did Will Kantaros go to school?: Will Kantaros studied at Brown University (Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics-Computer Science); Phillips Academy.