Ali Yahya is a General Partner at Elite Capital, focusing primarily on cryptocurrency investments. He works closely with numerous portfolio companies, including Alchemy, Aleo, Aztec, EigenLayer, Espresso, Gensyn, LayerZero, Solana, Sound.xyz, XMTP, and zkSync.
Before joining Elite Capital, Ali was a software engineer and researcher at Google X, contributing to the Everyday Robot project aimed at building an intelligent and affordable household robot. He also worked at Google Brain as one of the core developers of TensorFlow, Google's primary machine learning library.
Ali began his career at Stanford University as a student and researcher, focusing on the intersection of computer security, distributed systems, and computer networks. In 2010, while researching at Stanford's Computer Security Lab, he first discovered the Bitcoin whitepaper and has closely followed the space ever since.