Vivek Raman

Vivek Raman is Co-Founder and CEO of Etherealize, a New York-based company he founded in August 2024 with backing from the Ethereum Foundation and Vitalik Buterin. Etherealize functions as the institutional marketing and product arm for the Ethereum blockchain, focused on bridging traditional finance with Ethereum infrastructure. Raman leads a team across product, research, business development, and marketing, with responsibilities spanning the development of institutional-grade products, blockchain education initiatives, and strategic partnerships with banks, asset managers, and hedge funds. He has represented Ethereum in Washington, engaging with the Treasury, SEC, Congress, and the White House, and has testified before the U.S. Congress to advocate for clear regulatory frameworks for digital assets. Etherealize raised $40 million in funding, announced in September 2025.

Prior to founding Etherealize, Raman served as Managing Director of Crypto and AI Investment Banking at BitOoda, where he led capital raises for Bitcoin miners, data centers, and AI companies, and built an Ethereum tokenization vertical. Before that, he held the role of Head of Proof-of-Stake Product Development at BitOoda, focusing on the ETH and Layer 2 space, including tokenization and institutional ETH staking. Earlier, he was Senior DeFi Researcher at Celsius Network, conducting diligence on DeFi protocols across the EVM blockchain and building institutional partnerships with Ethereum Layer 2 networks. His traditional finance career spanned over a decade, with Vice President and Director-level roles in high-yield and distressed credit trading at Nomura, Deutsche Bank, UBS, and Morgan Stanley. He holds a B.A. in Economics, completed between 2007 and 2010.