Ranidu Lankage

Ranidu Lankage is a serial technology entrepreneur and startup founder currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. As an alumnus of the Y Combinator Summer 2017 batch, he co-founded Polly, a consumer-focused messaging application that rapidly scaled to accommodate over 45 million global users. The widespread adoption and massive scale of the Polly platform ultimately led to its successful corporate acquisition by the prominent communication company Discord. Following this exit, Lankage co-founded Audius, a decentralized blockchain-based music streaming protocol specifically designed to connect audio artists directly with their listeners. The Audius network expanded significantly within the Web3 ecosystem, eventually reaching an audience of more than 10 million monthly active users. His professional background remains heavily focused on building high-growth consumer internet applications, engineering decentralized blockchain protocols, and scaling digital audio streaming platforms.