Anna Kazlauskas

Anna is the creator of Vana and CEO of Open Data Labs, building a network for user-owned data. Vana enables users to maintain sovereignty over their data while allowing developers to access next-generation datasets for AI training. Through Vana, users can own both their data and the value it creates, including AI models trained on it.

She studied computer science and economics at MIT, where she first got into crypto by mining Ethereum in her dorm room in 2015. After leaving MIT, she founded a YC-backed machine learning company and contributed to Celo. Her research at MIT's CSAIL, the Federal Reserve, and the World Bank shaped her vision of data as the currency of the future.