Lars Bakke Krogvig is a Co-founder and Director of Engineering 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

Lars Bakke Krogvig attended the University of Twente as an exchange student in applied Mathematics, from 2012 to 2013. Afterward, he earned a Master of Science degree in Applied Maths from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 2009 to 2014. ^[1]

Career

Lars Bakke Krogvig started out with his summer job as a research assistant at Norsk Regnesentral. He was also a teaching assistant at NTNU in 2013. ^[3]

In August 2014, he joined BearingPoint as a Senior Technology Analyst and then he moved to the role of a Tech. Consultant in 2016. From 2016 to 2019, he served as a Senior Data Engineer at Unacast. He was also a Data Engineer at D5 - The Data Science DAO prior to co-founding Nansen. ^[4]

Nansen

Lars Bakke Krogvig co-founded Nansen alongside Alex Svanevik and Evgeny Medvedev in October 2020 and he serves as the VP of Engineering of the company. ^[2][3]

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]

On why Nansen was built, the team stated:

"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."

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. ^[5]