Evgeny Medvedev is a Co-Founder & Chief Solutions Architect at Nansen - a blockchain data analytics company that provides a platform for users to utilize tools and dashboards to gain access to in-depth, on-chain information. ^[1][2]

Education

In 2010, Medvedev earned his Master's degree in Computer Science from Omsk State University (OSU). He is also a Google-certified Professional Cloud Architect. ^[1]

Career

Between 2010 and 2012, Evgeny Medvedev served as a Senior Java Developer at Luxoft. Afterward, he worked as a Full Stack Engineer at Upwork. ^[4]

From 2013 to 2018, he served as a Software Architect at AMPOS Solutions Inc. in Thailand. He left temporarily to work as a Lead Data Engineer at CoinFi. He rejoined AMPOS Solutions Inc. in 2019 until 2020. ^[3][4]

In February 2019, Medvedev co-founded D5 - The Data Science & Engineering DAO and serves as the Solutions Architect of the company. D5 is a collective of data scientists and engineers structured as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). They help startups, corporations, and organizations accelerate their data science & engineering initiatives. ^[4][5]

Nansen

In October 2020, Evgeny Medvedev co-founded Nansen alongside Alex Svanevik and Lars Bakke Krogvig and he serves as the Chief Solutions Architect of the company. ^[1][2]

Nansen is a blockchain analytics platform whose main offering is its ability to surface signals in blockchain data, made possible by the platform's use of on-chain analysis and millions of labeled wallets. This allows traders to gain a deeper understanding of the crypto ecosystem and make real-time decisions based on the data that truly matters. ^[2]

"After years of working with blockchain data, we found that many of our clients wanted the same thing: to know more about the wallets that are transacting on-chain. So we started building Nansen in 2019 to address this need, and have quickly become a leading provider of data and analytics for Ethereum." - the co-founders on why they built Nansen^[6]

In 2020, Nansen raised $1.2 million in a seed round led by Mechanism Capital and Skyfall Ventures. In 2021, a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) secured $12 million, with participation from previous investors like Skyfall Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, and new backers. ^[2]

Nansen acquired staking platform StakeWithUs in September 2024, for an undisclosed price as the CEO, Alex Svanevik looks to expand beyond data provision into offering investment services for institutions and retail traders. StakeWithUs, which is backed by the Singapore government's innovation project SGinnovate, provides staking across multiple blockchains. ^[7]