# Alex Svanevik

> Alex Svanevik is a Norwegian entrepreneur and data scientist based in Singapore. He co-founded Nansen with Evgeny Medvedev and Lars Bakke Krogvig in 2019, launching its blockchain analytics product in April 2020. His earlier career included consulting, Schibsted and CoinFi; his education spans cognitive science and artificial intelligence. He leads Nansen as it expands from wallet analytics into trading and AI agents.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Nansen
- **Organizations:** Nansen, Schibsted, CoinFi, Lido Finance, PleasrDAO, Pudgy Penguins
- **Nationality:** Norwegian
- **Education:** BSc in Cognitive Science, University of Bergen, MSc in Artificial Intelligence, with distinction, University of Edinburgh
- **Known for:** Co-founded Nansen and developed its subscription-based blockchain analytics business., Nansen reported over 1,000x revenue growth from a small starting base during its first year., Nansen announced $88.2 million across its 2020 seed and 2021 Series A and B rounds.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2017** — Worked in management consulting and data science, including at Schibsted.
- **2017** — Discovered Ethereum through engineers at work; subsequently left his data science management role and moved to Hong Kong.
- **2018** — Worked as chief data scientist at CoinFi.
- **2019** — Worked on analytics for 0x and Aragon; began building Nansen with Evgeny Medvedev and Lars Bakke Krogvig.
- **2020-04** — Nansen went live and acquired a paying customer on launch day.
- **2020-10** — Nansen announced a $1.2 million seed round.
- **2021-06** — Nansen announced a $12 million Series A led by a16z.
- **2021-12** — Nansen announced a $75 million Series B led by Accel.
- **2023-05** — Nansen announced a 30 percent reduction in staff.
- **2025-09** — Nansen launched its AI chatbot.
- **2026-09** — Led the opening of Nansen’s office in Thimphu, Bhutan.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Nansen and developed its subscription-based blockchain analytics business.
- Nansen reported over 1,000x revenue growth from a small starting base during its first year.
- Nansen announced $88.2 million across its 2020 seed and 2021 Series A and B rounds.
- Received an Informatics Prize for his MSc project at Edinburgh.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Led Nansen’s Thimphu office opening; BBS reported four Bhutanese recruits and three interns in its AI talent programme.
- **2026-07** — Discussed Nansen’s move from analytics to execution and AI trading agents on The Starting Block.
- **2026-03** — Appeared in Joseph Raczynski’s interview on agentic AI and tokenized assets.
- **2025-09** — Nansen launched an AI chatbot and was testing trading agents internally.

## Links

- Website: https://nansen.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asvanevik/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/ASvanevik
- GitHub: https://github.com/askeluv

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Last updated: 2026-10-12