Neel Somani, Founder of Eclipse

Neel Somani is the founder of Eclipse. Eclipse has raised $65M in total funding. Latest round: Series A.

About Neel Somani

Neel Somani is the founder of Eclipse, an Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain network launched in mid-2022 in San Francisco, California. He led the company through its pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds, raising a total of approximately $65 million. In October 2025, Somani stepped down as Executive Chairman to focus full-time on machine learning research.

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