Raeez Lorgat

"The universe is written in the language of mathematics." — Galileo

I'm a South African mathematician who dropped out of MIT to help build payments infrastructure at Stripe. Now I'm building Mass—programmable jurisdiction infrastructure that turns incorporation, compliance, and banking into APIs for governments. Mass is critical infrastructure bootstrapping a novel kind of decentralized network, today live across the US, Cayman, BVI and the Special Economic Zone in Prospera, Honduras. In 2026 and beyond we're expanding into Abu Dhabi and Dubai's free zones, Kazakhstan, Korea, Indonesia and China.

I hold a research fellowship at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics working at the intersection of arithmetic and enumerative geometry, factorization algebras, and the geometry of quantum field theory. The mathematics I study—how local structures compose into global ones—shapes how I think about institutional design.

At sixteen, I had minor planet 23122 Lorgat named after me.

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