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Ratnesh Ray
Ratnesh Ray is the Co-Founder and CTO of Juno, a crypto-native banking platform headquartered in San Francisco that lets users receive salaries directly in cryptocurrency via FDIC-insured accounts. A serial entrepreneur from Bengaluru, Ray previously co-founded BeeWise (acquired by Aditya Birla Money in 2017) and Nuo Network, a ConsenSys-backed DeFi lending protocol. At Juno, he leads technical architecture for a platform that has raised $24M in funding, including an $18M Series A led by ParaFi Capital in 2022, and serves over 75,000 U.S. customers.
Varun Deshpande
Varun Deshpande is the co-founder and CEO of Juno, a San Francisco-based crypto-native digital banking platform that bridges traditional finance and decentralized finance for the US market. A serial entrepreneur from BITS Pilani, he previously co-founded BeeWise (acquired by Aditya Birla Money), Nuo Network (a DeFi lending protocol), and TopTalent.in. With Juno, he has raised $24M across seed and Series A rounds from top-tier investors including Sequoia Surge, Polychain, ParaFi Capital, and Jump Crypto, building a platform that lets users earn, spend, and manage crypto alongside traditional banking.