ABOUT US
At Vatom our mission is to enable both companies and individuals to easily engage directly with the emerging Web3.
We do this because we believe this will help unleash unlimited creative and financial opportunities for every person on the planet.
WE ARE DIFFERENT.
If you look at the countless solutions on the market today, they share the same challenge – they are disconnected, difficult to use, and are mostly designed to trap you in a closed system of tokens and land.
We are not that. In fact, we are the opposite. We are the first feature-complete platform, built with a simple to use, open, plug-in architecture that can enable anyone to create their own place in the Metaverse.
What Salesforce is to the Enterprise we are to the Metaverse.
WE’VE BEEN AT THIS FOR A LONG TIME.
In early 2019 our founders proposed a concept of programmable, dynamic non-fungible tokens on blockchains called Smart NFT’s. Since then, over 30 million Smart NFTs have been created and distributed by some of the largest companies in the world, including Verizon, Vodafone, Unilever, P&G, Nestle, Intel, State Farm, iHeart Radio, and PepsiCo.
WE KNOW HOW TO BUILD SUCCESSFUL COMPANIES.
Our team has raised over two billion dollars for over 17 ventures that have achieved a wide variety of liquidity events including acquisitions, IPOs, ICOs, and mergers.
A sample of companies the team has help lead: Google, Sony, EMA Multimedia, Digital Evolution, Live Nation, US Interactive, Samsung, Media Platform, MagicLeap, Gluecode, Akana, Epics, Desktone, Playground Ventures, ECLC, BlockV, and now Vatom.
Leadership
Eric Pulier
Founder of over fifteen companies, Eric Pulier has raised over one billion dollars for ventures he has founded or co-founded and achieved a wide variety of liquidity events including acquisitions, IPOs, ICOs, and mergers. A sampling of ventures Mr. Pulier has founded or co-founded include: Digital Evolution, US Interactive, Media Platform, Gluecode, Akana, Desktone, ServiceMesh, ECLC, BlockV, and Vatom.
Ashish Vaid
Ashish has extensive experience as a product leader, and as a sales leader with a focus on cloud infrastructure, XR/AR, security, blockchain, and mobile apps. He has held senior roles at Akana, Jabid, and SOA Software.
Alistair Farquharson
Alistair has held multiple CTO and VP Engineering roles. Most recently he was CTO of Akana, and held VP roles at Digital evolution, US Interactive, and Bitium.
Michael Judd
Michael has held senior management roles at multiple Fortune 500 companies such as Raytheon, Zurich North America, Washington Mutual, Providian, American Express, Verizon, and Intel.
Colin Hornett
Colin has held multiple creative roles throughout his career. Recently he was Chief Creative Officer at Sparx Technology, and held positions at the Miss Universe Organization, Choice Records, and Afa-Press.
Jonas Selenis
Jonas has operationalized and scaled organizations from start-up to enterprise for leading brands in entertainment, media, and technology. He has held senior leadership positions at SONY, Live Nation, and UltraStar Entertainment.
Angela Patin
Angela has held senior HR roles for several companies including SOA Software, ServiceMesh, and Digital Evolution.
Our Board
Peter Diamandis
Recently named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” Peter H. Diamandis is the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions. He is also the executive founder of Singularity University, a graduate-level Silicon Valley institution that counsels the world’s leaders on exponentially growing technologies.
As an entrepreneur, Diamandis has started over 20 companies in the areas of longevity, space, venture capital and education. He is co-founder of BOLD Capital Partners, a venture fund with $250M investing in exponential technologies, and co-founder and Vice Chairman of Celularity, Inc., a cellular therapeutics company.
John Suh
John was the CEO of LegalZoom from 2007 to 2019, and a member of its Board of Directors from 2005 to 2019.
John is a serial entrepreneur with almost two decades of experience in the Internet. Prior to LegalZoom, he served as CEO of StudioDirect, the Internet division of publicly traded Li and Fung. Previously, as co-founder and CEO of Castling Group, he took a leading role in helping offline companies create their Internet divisions, launching category leaders such as jcrew.com, hifi.com, and giftcertificates.com.
Sam Engelbardt
Sam is Head of Galaxy Interactive and a Portfolio Manager at Galaxy Digital. His responsibilities at the firm include, amongst other things, co-managing Galaxy’s general venture capital business as well as the Galaxy EOS Ecosystem Fund, a $325mm joint venture with Block.one that is focused on making strategic investments in projects that utilize the EOS.io blockchain software.
He is a media and technology investor and content producer who has created, acquired, and/or financed a broad range of traditional and digital businesses and dozens of films and television shows over the past decade.
Walter Kortschak
Currently Exec Chairman and CIO of Signalfire, Walter has been a venture capital and private equity investor for over 35 years, including 30 years at Summit Partners as a Managing Partner responsible for establishing the firm’s West Coast investment presence and growing the firm from $100 million under management to over $20 billion. Prior to Summit, he was a Vice President and Associate at Crosspoint Venture Partners and is a six-time Forbes Midas List investor.
Over his venture capital career, Walter has served as a director of over 50 companies, many of which achieved successful public exits. He has been an active angel investor in such notable companies as First Republic Bank, Lyft, Palantir, Robinhood, Trade Desk and Twitter.
Tracy Dolgin
Tracy is currently a Senior Advisor at Raine Group LTD, a 30-year media veteran, Tracy joined the YES Network as President and CEO in September 2004, and was named Non-Executive Chairman of YES on June 1, 2016. He transitioned from Non-Executive Chairman to Board Member in January 2017. Prior to joining YES Network, Dolgin served as Managing Director and Co-Head of Houlihan Lokey’s Media, Sports and Entertainment practice in 2003 and 2004. Earlier, Dolgin was President of FOX Sports Net from 2000 through 2003. While there, Dolgin also managed the FOX owned-and-operated regional sports networks, and FOXSports.com.
Before joining FOX, Dolgin was Senior Vice President of Marketing at HBO Video from 1986 to 1992.
Marc Delesalle
Marc was a senior managing director for Accenture. In his 25 year career, he help create the strategy, business process reengineering, CRM, and data analytics practices. His last two leadership roles were running their global Financial Services CRM practice and their EMEA CRM cross-industry practice. He helped author Accenture’s POV on High-Performance Marketing and Loyalty. Marc is currently the investment director for SVK Crypto – a venture capital fund for Web 3.0 start-ups.