Summary
Apurv Mishra is a TED Fellow and deep-tech entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building privacy-first AI and Web3 infrastructure, currently co-founder and Chief Strategy & Product Officer at Yield.xyz, which unifies 1,000+ yield strategies across 70+ networks via a single API. He blends product vision and hands-on technical leadership from prior CTO roles at Omni and doc.ai (part of a $100M enterprise partnership) to simplify self-custodial staking, DeFi, and tokenized yield for wallets and custodians. A policy-minded technologist educated at Cambridge, he has shaped global tech agendas through long-standing World Economic Forum involvement alongside Nobel laureates and DARPA leaders. Apurv’s track record spans privacy, cryptography, and reputation systems—he built ZeusID to score 30M+ Ethereum addresses—and he advised governments and firms from Microsoft Research to Jaguar Land Rover. Notably, he started as a teenage inventor who built an award-winning robotic arm to help his grandfather, a thread that underscores a career combining human-centered design with cutting-edge systems.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Technology Policy, Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Technology Policy at University of Cambridge
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of East London