Yair Cleper

Yair Cleper is a 2x Founder and CEO at Magma Devs, where Yair is building Lava Network, described as the Cloudflare for blockchains. Yair also contributes to Lava Network, a decentralized network incentivizing node runners to provide quality RPCs for public use.

Yair's expertise spans Management, Engineering, Strategy, Fundraising, and AI, alongside strong capabilities in Entrepreneurship, Business Development, and System Architecture.

As a contributor to Lava Network, Yair has been instrumental in raising significant capital from tier-1 VCs, chains, and founders in Web3. Yair has also established partnerships with leading chains like NEAR, Cosmos, Filecoin, and Starknet, scaling the network to serve over 2.5 million unique users monthly with over 2 billion relays per day.

Prior to current roles, Yair founded Supersmart - Retail Made Right, serving as ex-CEO and Director since 2015, and co-founded Neolithics (since 2021) and OCTOPAI (since 2015). Yair is also a Seed Investor in companies such as CodiumAI and Chaos Labs, and serves on the Advisory Board for Takara.

Currently, Yair is focused on solving the critical infrastructure problems in Web3 by positioning Lava as the essential access layer for dApps and blockchains.

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