Anil Mathews

Anil was born in India on February 18, 1974. He graduated with an electrical engineering degree from Bangalore University.

Anil Mathews is the creator and CEO of Near. Before founding Near in 2012, Anil was CEO of Imere Tech. Anil was also CEO of Netkode in 1999.

Anil Mathews built Near into the world’s largest intelligence source on people and places with a technology-centric approach. Mathews is a visionary who continues to steer the fast-growing global business to its next stage. Anil has spent around 18 years building profitable engineering, messaging, and social companies. He is known for creating new market ventures with a technology capability and strategic vision that can provide substantial growth.

With proven experience in bringing ideas into a company, Anil is an advisor to many startups worldwide. NEAR is a simple, secure, and scalable blockchain platform designed by Anil, who wants to supply the best possible experience for customers and developers, which is needed to bridge the gap to mainstream adoption of decentralized systems. NEAR is entirely carbon neutral as certified by the South Pole.

Unlike other blockchains, this network is designed to be the easiest in the world for both developers and their users, providing the scalability needed to serve those users.

Specifically, Anil designed NEAR to make it easier to build decentralized applications, even if you are only used to building with “traditional” web or app concepts. Like users with a smooth experience, even if they have never used tokens, crypto, wallets, keys, or other blockchain artifacts. Scale your application seamlessly, said Anil – the underlying platform automatically expands capacity via sharding without additional costs or effort on your part.