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Arjun Sethi
Co-CEO, Kraken
Co-CEO, Kraken
Background
Arjun Sethi is the co-CEO of Kraken.
He is one of three founders of Tribe Capital and has served on Kraken's board since 2021.
About Kraken
Kraken: Kraken is a US-based cryptocurrency exchange, legally named Payward, Inc. It was founded in 2011 and is the first cryptocurrency company to obtain a bank charter.
Key facts
- Role
- Co-CEO of Payward and Krakensource
- Speaking
- Opened Money20/20 Europe 2026 with a keynote titled 'Money Open'source
- Founded
- Co-founded Nibiru, a crypto derivatives trading protocol, in September 2022source
- Board
- Has served on the Kraken board since 2021source
- Tribe Capital
- One of three founders of Tribe Capital, which was started after he left Social Capital as a partnersource
- Kraken investment
- Told Bloomberg in 2021 that Tribe Capital had spent $120 million on equity investments in Kraken since Decembersource
- Previous role
- Previously chief executive at Lolapps, a social gaming company, and left after a round of layoffs theresource
- OCC application
- Quoted as Co-CEO of Payward and Kraken in the company's announcement of its application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a national trust company chartersource
- Appointment
- Named co-CEO while serving as a Kraken board member; the co-CEOs announced the appointment in a blog postsource
- Nibiru
- Co-founded Nibiru, a crypto derivatives trading protocol, in September 2022source
- Kraken investor rank
- Told Bloomberg in 2021 that Tribe Capital was Kraken's second-largest institutional investor, behind Hummingbird Venturessource
- Blog message
- A message from Arjun Sethi and Dave Ripley, co-CEOs of Kraken, on the Kraken blog post 'A new day for Kraken'source
- Funded accounts
- According to co-CEO Arjun Sethi, Kraken has roughly 7 million funded accounts around the worldsource
- IPO filing
- Confirmed the exchange's confidential SEC IPO filing at the April 14, 2026, Semafor event in Washington, D.C.source
Sources
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