Louis Guthmann
Ecosystem builder and investor at the intersection of zero-knowledge cryptography, Bitcoin, and fintech. Based in Tel Aviv.
Spent six years at StarkWare — as Head of Ecosystem, then Head of Product Strategy — growing the Starknet developer community from zero to 1,500 active monthly developers and helping spin out 25 companies. Before that, first PM on StarkEx, the engine behind dYdX, Sorare, and Immutable X. Co-founded Geometry, a $75M crypto fund, and backed 80+ companies including Sorare, Immutable, Privy, and Ambire. Co-founded ZK-Global, the world's largest zero-knowledge meetup network. Earlier, ML and security research at Check Point.
Currently exploring what's next.
Explorations
- TimeKeeper AI work capture that turns desktop activity into defensible context and time entries.
- InLet On-device Mac app that renames downloaded files intelligently. No cloud, no subscription.
Talks & appearances
- Consensus 2023 Speaker at CoinDesk's annual conference.
- The Mining Pod How STARKs Could Transform Bitcoin — ZK proofs on Bitcoin, fee economics, and scaling.
- StarkWare Sessions Interview with Kernel Ventures on Layer 3, Cairo, and ecosystem strategy.
- Univers Bitcoin Podcast StarkWare et le futur de la scalabilité — in French.
- EthCC · Devconnect · StarkWare Sessions Regular presence at Ethereum and ZK ecosystem conferences.
Press
- Decrypt Tested on Ethereum, StarkWare's Zero-Knowledge Proofs Are Now Live on Bitcoin — quoted calling ZeroSync "the first production attempt to radically upgrade the Bitcoin protocol."
- Cointelegraph StarkWare ZKThreads solution could prevent fund lockups similar to FTX — quoted on how ZKThreads ensures users can keep trading even during downtime.
- The Block StarkWare unveils new ZKThreads framework in its 'fractal scaling' arsenal — quoted on ZKThreads enabling direct execution on Starknet.
- Cointelegraph StarkWare launches $1M research fund for ZK Bitcoin scaling.