Valentin Mihov

Bulgarian software engineer and crypto entrepreneur. Captained Bulgaria's national informatics team and won a silver medal at IOI 2004 (Athens) plus gold at the Balkan Olympiad in Informatics 2004; studied computer science and entrepreneurship at Sofia University. Led the technical team (CTO) at blockchain-analytics firm Santiment from 2017, then consulted to US funds on blockchain/DeFi and co-founded/managed the DeFi fund Finexify as CIO in 2021. Since 2022 he is co-founder and Co-CEO of Enflux, a quantitative crypto market-making and liquidity firm. His public footprint centres on crypto/DeFi and market microstructure rather than traditional quantitative-finance employment.

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. Evidence: Mihov is co-founder and Co-CEO of Enflux, described on Enflux's own site as 'a quantitative trading and liquidity firm' and by third-party profiles as a crypto market maker - an actual operating role at a firm engaged in quantitative/crypto trading. Employer classification: Enflux qualifies as a quantitative trading/market-making business by primary-source description; Santiment (his CTO tenure, 2017-2019) is crypto analytics, not a trading desk; Finexify is a DeFi investment fund (CIO), not a systematic-trading seat; Daedalus Angels is angel investing. Unresolved part: identity/role conflict. The caller's lead - a London 'Valentin Mihov' at Brevan Howard with Oxford/Cambridge economics - is a DIFFERENT person from this IOI-2004/Sofia-CS Enflux founder, and the Brevan Howard roles could not be independently verified against primary sources; nor could the 'Ex-Microsoft' / 'Ex-CTO of a 9-Figure Hedge Fund' claims in his X bio. Competition items (IOI 2004, Balkan Olympiad 2004) are excluded from the quant-role determination because they are not employment.
• Co-founded Enflux in 2022 with Jelle Buth; Enflux is a crypto market maker (Market-Making as a Service for Web3 projects).
• Enflux's about page states it is 'a quantitative trading and liquidity firm operating across centralized and on-chain markets' - primary-source confirmation the company is a quant-trading firm.
• Cross-source: the IOI-2004 + Sofia-University-CS identity ties his Olympiad past to Santiment and Enflux, whereas the caller's Brevan Howard/Oxford-Cambridge 'Valentin Mihov' has no competitive-programming trace - they appear to be two different people sharing the name.
• A 2018 guide independently notes Santiment's CTO Valentin Mihov won the IOI 2004 silver, tying the Olympiad identity to the Santiment career.
• Enflux's homepage pitches 'AI-powered market making and treasury building strategies from veteran quants', listing Binance, Coinbase, OKX, Kraken and Bybit as counterparties.
• His current X bio: 'CEO of @enflux_io. Forbes 30U30. Ex-@Microsoft. Ex-CTO of a 9-Figure Hedge Fund | Market microstructure and Liquidity analysis' - the Microsoft and hedge-fund-CTO claims could not be independently verified.
• IOI 2004 silver medallist for Bulgaria (375 pts, 62/291, Athens, Sep 2004) - a competition result, not employment.
• Career before his current company: 'worked at several international startups', then head of the technical team (CTO) of blockchain-analytics company Santiment in 2017.
• CTO of Santiment (crypto analytics, founded 2016) around 2017-2019, per crypto trackers that list him on Santiment's team.
• From 2020 freelanced as a consultant to US investment funds on blockchain and DeFi, then in 2021 became fund manager at Finexify and an investor via Daedalus Angels - crypto/DeFi investing roles, not systematic-trading seats.
• Enflux is led by two Co-CEOs (Mihov, Jelle Buth) and was engaged as market maker by projects such as Autheo and Beldex (a $3M round) - evidence it is an operating trading counterparty, not a shell.