StarkWare
formerly StarkWare IndustriesBringing scalability, security, and privacy to a blockchain near you
Netanya, Israel · Founded 2018 · $273.0M raised
- Headquarters
- Netanya
- Employees
- 201–500
- Founded
- 2018
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- starkware.co
- Total Funding
- $273.0M
- Last Round
- $100.0M Series DMay 2022
- Rounds
- 5
Totals include recorded grants and other qualifying funding, not just equity. What counts toward funding.
About
StarkWare Industries is an Israeli software company pioneering zero-knowledge proof technology to solve blockchain scalability and privacy challenges. Founded in 2018 by cryptographers Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Michael Riabzev, and Uri Kolodny, the company develops two core products: Starknet, a permissionless decentralized ZK-Rollup enabling any developer to deploy dApps with unlimited scale using smart contracts; and StarkEx, a standalone ZK-Rollup SaaS supporting NFT minting and trading, derivative trading, AMMs, spot trading, payments, and DeFi Pooling. StarkWare's STARK proofs are zero-knowledge, succinct, transparent, and post-quantum secure — requiring no trusted setup. Having raised $250 million in equity plus a $12 million Ethereum Foundation grant, the company reached an $8 billion valuation and has processed over 277 million cumulative transactions. StarkWare developed the Cairo programming language for writing provable programs and open-sourced its Stone and Stwo provers to advance the broader ZK ecosystem.
Summary
StarkWare is a Crypto & Web3 company based in Netanya, Israel, founded in 2018. It has raised $273.0M in total across 5 rounds, most recently a $100.0M Series D round in May 2022. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Paradigm and Greenoaks Capital.
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Funding History
May 2022
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Funding: Seed through Series D. Amounts, valuations, and investors where available.
Investors
Sequoia Capital
3 rounds
Paradigm
2 rounds
Greenoaks Capital
1 round
Coatue Management
2 rounds
Atomico
2 rounds
Intel Capital
2 rounds
Pantera Capital
2 rounds
Naval Ravikant
2 rounds
OKEx Blockdream Ventures
1 round
DCVC (Data Collab)
1 round
Wing VC
1 round
ConsenSys
1 round
Coinbase Ventures
1 round
Multicoin Capital
1 round
Collaborative Fund
1 round
Scalar Capital
1 round
Semantic Ventures
1 round
Floodgate
1 round
Three Arrows Capital
1 round
Ethereum Foundation
1 round
Metastable Capital
1 round
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