Roneil Rumburg
Roneil Rumburg is the Co-Founder and CEO of Audius, a community-run music platform that connects artists and fans directly. Under his leadership, Audius provides a blockchain-based alternative to existing streaming platforms to help artists publish and monetize their work and distribute it directly to fans. Prior to Audius, Rumburg most recently co-founded Kleiner Perkins' early-stage seed fund KPCB Edge, where he was responsible for seed investments into Blockchain and AI companies including Lightning Labs. He also co-founded Backslash, a peer-to-peer Bitcoin payment protocol.
Roneil Rumburg Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Co-Founder and CEO
Academic History
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B.S., Computer Science
Audius is a decentralized blockchain-based platform that aims to decentralize the music industry by giving power back to the artists and fans.
The platform is a crypto-powered music sharing and streaming protocol that empowers artists to distribute, monetize, and stream their audio content directly to fans.
Today, hundreds of thousands of artists across dozens of genres use Audius to forge deep relationships with fans.
He has been featured in Forbes, Billboard, Yahoo! Finance, CoinDesk, TechCrunch, and more.
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