The Team Behind Stacks
In the beginning Stacks was funded by a range of major venture capital funds, including Digital Currency Group, Y Combinator, & Winklevoss Capital. Development by Blockstack PBC, which has its headquarters in New York.
Blockstack PBC now operates under Hiro Systems PBC and joins a wide range of companies building on Stacks' platform. Muneeb Ali and Ryan Shea founded Blockstack PBC. Muneeb Ali graduated from Princeton University with an MA & Ph.D. in computer science, co-founded Stacks in 2013 and has been working with the platform today as the CEO of Hiro Systems PBC.
The 2nd co-founder of the platform, Ryan Shea, also served as co-CEO between 2013 & 2018 before disembarking from the project to pursue other projects & ventures