Alchemy

Joe Lau: the CTO who built Alchemy's infrastructure

Joe Lau is the technical co-founder of Alchemy, the Web3 infrastructure company valued at $10.2B in 2022.

Joe Lau studied computer science at Stanford University and earned both bachelor's and master's degrees. Before Alchemy he worked as an engineer at Pinterest, Google and LinkedIn.

He met Nikil Viswanathan at Stanford, where the two were co-teaching assistants for a database course. They founded Alchemy in 2017.

Alchemy builds APIs, nodes and tools for blockchain developers. Lau is the chief technology officer, and Viswanathan is CEO.

Alchemy raised $80M in April 2021, $250M in October 2021 at $3.5B, and $200M on February 8, 2022 at $10.2B.

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What does Joe Lau do at Alchemy?

Joe Lau is co-founder and chief technology officer of Alchemy, the blockchain developer infrastructure company.

Where did Joe Lau study?

He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science at Stanford University.

How did Joe Lau meet Nikil Viswanathan?

They met at Stanford as co-teaching assistants for a database course. They founded Alchemy in 2017.