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Protocol Labs Inc
548 Market Street #51207
San Francisco, CA 94104
United States
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KANDO id: 527625
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Protocol Labs Inc
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US CIK 0001675225
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Open-source research and development lab that builds protocols, tools, and services to radically improve the internet, including Filecoin and IPFS.Overview
Protocol Labs is an open-source R&D lab that builds protocols, tools, and services to radically improve the internet. Protocol Labs' projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p and more — which serve thousands of organizations and millions of people. The Filecoin Project is a decentralized storage network with the mission of creating a decentralized, efficient and robust foundation for humanity's information.
Funding rounds
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Digital Currency Group Inc (DCG) | Investment company focused on bitcoin and blockchain tech businesses. |
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CSC Upshot Ventures I LP | Initial investment. ("via Naval Ravikant".) |
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a16zcrypto | The blockchain-focused investment arm of Andreessen Horowitz. | Initial investment. |
Investment activity status
Active investor
Selected investments
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Artizen | Web3 culture-focused crowdfunding platform which leverages tokenization and gamification to crowdfund niche projects in the arts. | Seed Initial investment | |||
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Canza Finance | Decentralised finance (DeFi) foreign exchange (FX) startup. | N/A Initial investment | |||
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Cubist Inc | Hardware-backed key management, cross-chain dev tools, CI/CD security for web3. | Seed Initial investment | |||
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Dumme (Armada Labs) | Using AI to turn a video into multiple shorts, while preserving the original context and structure. | Seed Initial investment | |||
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Filecoin NNI Renewable Energy Fund | Fund Closing Initial investment | ||||
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Gensyn Ltd | Machine learning compute protocol that unites all of the world’s compute into a global supercluster, accessible by anyone at any time. | Series A Initial investment | |||
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Impossible Cloud GmbH | Decentralized, enterprise-grade cloud for hyperscale edge computing. | Seed Initial investment | |||
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Kosen Labs | N/A Initial investment | ||||
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Polybase | Privacy preserving decentralized database, built on zk-STARKs. | Pre Seed Initial investment Brad Holden | |||
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Quicknode Inc | Blockchain deployment platform. | Series B Initial investment | |||
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Tableland | Open source, permissionless cloud database built on SQLite. | Series A Initial investment |
Team
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Juan Batiz-Benet (founder) | ||
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Nicola Greco | ||
| Brad Holden | |||
| Alan Ransil | |||
| Marvin Ammori | General Counsel
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