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Near Protocol Funding Round

Near Protocol secured a $12.1 million financing round on 7/12/2019. Investors included Accomplice, MetaStable Capital and A.Capital Ventures.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
7/12/2019
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$12,100,000
Round
Undisclosed
Proceeds Purpose
The company intends to use the new funds to recruit developers, to accelerate the development of additional tooling and to launch the NEAR Protocol mainnet.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Enterprise IT
Mailing Address
181 2nd St.
San Francisco, CA 94105
USA
Phone
Undisclosed
Email Address
Overview
NEAR is a blockchain protocol designed to bridge the adoption gap for mainstream commercial DApps. Designed to linearly scale with number of nodes by sharding (100k tps at 1M nodes, ~1s finality), have wide adoption by running on mobile devices, and security guarantees on the level of best blockchains.
Profile
Near Protocol LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Near Protocol Company Twitter Account
Company News
Near Protocol News
Facebook
Near Protocol on Facebook
YouTube
Near Protocol on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Alexander Skidanov
  Alexander Skidanov LinkedIn Profile  Alexander Skidanov Twitter Account  Alexander Skidanov News  Alexander Skidanov on Facebook
Chief Technical Officer
Illia Polosukhin
  Illia Polosukhin LinkedIn Profile  Illia Polosukhin Twitter Account  Illia Polosukhin News  Illia Polosukhin on Facebook


 

 

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