# Ethan Chan

> Ethan Chan is the co-founder and CEO of Allium, a New York and Singapore based company building the system of record for onchain finance. After leading machine learning and data engineering teams at Primer and lecturing at Stanford, he turned to the unglamorous work of cleaning up blockchain data, translating raw events from 150+ chains and 10,000 protocols into standardized, finance-ready datasets used by Visa, Stripe, Coinbase, Uniswap and Phantom. He cheerfully calls himself the Chief Data Plumber.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Allium
- **Organizations:** Allium, Primer, Stanford University, Stanford Intelligent Systems Lab
- **Education:** MS, Computer Science, Stanford University, BS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- **Known for:** Co-founded Allium and raised over $21.5M including a $16.5M Series A led by Theory Ventures, Built Allium into the data infrastructure behind Visa, Stripe, Coinbase, Uniswap, Phantom and Grayscale, Powered the Visa Onchain Analytics Dashboard for stablecoin metrics

## Career timeline

- **pre-2021** — BS at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- **pre-2021** — MS in Computer Science at Stanford; researched at Stanford Intelligent Systems Lab and lectured machine learning
- **pre-2021** — Director of Engineering at Primer, founded and led the Primer Command product and re-architected core ML pipelines
- **2021** — Co-founded Allium with Cheng Han Lee to fix blockchain data infrastructure
- **2022** — Raised seed round (part of $21.5M total)
- **2024** — Raised $16.5M Series A led by Theory Ventures, with Kleiner Perkins and Amplify Partners
- **2025** — Allium powering Visa Onchain Analytics Dashboard; profiled in Ted Merz's View from the Office

## Achievements

- Co-founded Allium and raised over $21.5M including a $16.5M Series A led by Theory Ventures
- Built Allium into the data infrastructure behind Visa, Stripe, Coinbase, Uniswap, Phantom and Grayscale
- Powered the Visa Onchain Analytics Dashboard for stablecoin metrics
- Scaled Allium to support 150+ blockchains and 10,000+ protocols
- Previously founded and led the Primer Command product as Director of Engineering
- Lectured machine learning at Stanford University

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Profiled in Ted Merz's 'View from the Office' series, discussing Allium's Bloomberg-like role in crypto data.
- **2024-07** — Announced $16.5M Series A led by Theory Ventures.

## Links

- Website: https://allium.so
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanyschan
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/ethanyish

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Last updated: 2026-06-04