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News
Technologies
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Jobs
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$6M
1 round on record
Latest round
$6M
Venture round · Feb 2019 · 7 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
7
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Polychain Capital, Abstract
The money's age
Long since its last round
92 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
16/100
hiring for its size, a new city
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 8, 2019 Raised a round Venture round $6M · SEC Form D 2018 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.05%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Feb 2019 $6M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Ava Labs, Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Emin SirerExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Overview

Ava Labs is a blockchain company founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York that created the Avalanche network. Avalanche combines a fast consensus mechanism with customisable subnets, allowing institutions and games to run their own chains with tailored rules. The company builds core clients, developer tooling and institutional products, and works with financial firms on tokenised asset pilots.

News

News CNBC 8 months ago
Changing of the guard: Crypto is seeing a wave of new investors, says Ava Labs
John Wu, President of Ava Labs, says the cryptocurrency market is transitioning to a new type of investor who is "more pragmatic" than the early adopters. He explains that this shift may help explain why cryptocurrencies have not behaved as they once did
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News crowdfundinsider.com 10 months ago
Crowdfund Insider Ava Labs proposes new token categories for clearer SEC crypto regulation.
NHN KCP rebuilds Korea's 38B payment infrastructure on Avalanche.
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The Street Avalanche enables compliant, instant cross-border payments for global finance.
Avalanche enables compliant, instant cross-border payments for global finance.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Ava Labs over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
25
Postings analysed
8
Stack modernity
76/100
Languages
Go
Node JS
Rust
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
React.js
Databases
DynamoDB
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes
GitHub Actions
Linux
AWS
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Full Ava Labs tech stack 25 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$272k
Typical range
$122k – $338k
Open positions
6
6 Jobs
Senior 66.7%
Staff 33.3%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 4 $203k $122k – $338k
Staff 2 $317k $317k
Highest paying role Senior Engineering Manager, Fortary Platform $338k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Ava Labs By role, level and city, against the market · 6 jobs with pay

People

Emin Sirer
Executive Officer, Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
80/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
7
2 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
8 days
faster than 74% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
40% ▲
Legal
20% ▲
Industrial Engineering
20% ▼
Early Careers
20% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Brooklyn Oct 2026
Added Rust to stack Sep 2026
Added Go to stack Sep 2026
Added Chaos Engineering to stack Sep 2026
Added Bazel to stack Sep 2026
Added JavaScript to stack Sep 2026
Added TypeScript to stack Sep 2026
Added React.js to stack Sep 2026
Added Node JS to stack Sep 2026
Added DynamoDB to stack Sep 2026
Added AWS Lambda to stack Sep 2026
Added AWS to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Brooklyn
New York United States
HQ
Brooklyn United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $122k Avg Salary
hires for Legal
seen since Sep 2026 job postings

Jobs

$253k – $317k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 7+ years exp
Go
Rust
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Chaos Engineering
Bazel
Linux
Web3
Avalanche
Apply
$225k – $338k per year • Remote (likely United States) • Full-Time • 10+ years exp
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
SOC 2
Web3
Avalanche
Staking
Apply
$143k – $179k per year • Remote (likely United States) • Full-Time
AI Agents
DevOps
Platform Engineering
Web3
Avalanche
Management
Notion
Apply
$181k – $226k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 10+ years exp
Avalanche
DeFi
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$6M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2019 $6M Details