# Omer Goldberg

> Omer Goldberg is the founder and CEO of Chaos Labs, a New York-based technology company whose work spans on-chain financial risk, oracles and enterprise AI infrastructure. He previously held technical leadership roles at Facebook and Instagram and founded JoiRyde and Mindflow.ai. His public writing covers startup lessons, software engineering, economic risk and AI systems.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Chaos Labs
- **Organizations:** Chaos Labs, Instagram, Facebook, Internet.org, Mindflow.ai, JoiRyde
- **Education:** Computer Science studies; exact awarded degree unverified, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Software development program, Fullstack Academy, Startup School participant with Mindflow.ai, Y Combinator Startup School
- **Known for:** Built Chaos Labs from simulation tooling into a business serving more than 20 protocols as reported in August 2024., Led Chaos Labs through $20 million seed and $55 million Series A rounds., Coauthored the February 2023 Aave V3 Risk Parameter Methodology.

## Career timeline

- **2012** — Says he received Bitcoin as payment for contract work.
- **2015-2016** — Founded the campus ride-sharing venture JoiRyde, which subsequently closed.
- **2017** — Built Mindflow.ai and participated in Startup School; interned at Facebook Express Wi-Fi in Tel Aviv from July to October.
- **2018** — Reported returning to Express Wi-Fi as a full-time Facebook engineer.
- **Before 2021** — Held tech lead roles at Facebook and Instagram.
- **2021** — Left Instagram, built on-chain simulations and founded Chaos Labs; former Facebook teammate Yonatan Hayun joined in the autumn.
- **2023** — Chaos Labs announced $20 million seed funding.
- **2024** — Chaos Labs announced a $55 million Series A led by Haun Ventures.
- **2026** — Announced departure from Aave risk-management engagement and published research on AI security and inference markets.

## Achievements

- Built Chaos Labs from simulation tooling into a business serving more than 20 protocols as reported in August 2024.
- Led Chaos Labs through $20 million seed and $55 million Series A rounds.
- Coauthored the February 2023 Aave V3 Risk Parameter Methodology.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Published We Backdoored an Open Model in One Day on the Chaos Labs website on August 10.
- **2026-08** — Published analyses of cybersecurity agent evaluation boundaries on August 5 and August 7.
- **2026-07** — Published The Rise of Spot Markets for Inference on July 31.
- **2026-04** — Announced Chaos Labs was leaving its Aave risk-management engagement; the counterparties publicly disputed the terms and reasons.

## Links

- Website: https://omergoldberg.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omer-goldberg-680b40100/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/omeragoldberg
- GitHub: https://github.com/Arieg419

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Last updated: 2026-10-26