Gitcoin
gitcoin.co
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$10.4M
1 round on record
Latest round
$10.4M
Convertible Note · Mar 2021 · 5 yr ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Backers
2
Bodhi Ventures 2026 Webflow, IDEO CoLab Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
67 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
2 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Mar 31, 2021
Raised a round Convertible Note $10.4M · SEC Form D
Sep 25, 2017
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Gitcoin – Bounties for Open Source Development
2017
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Convertible Note | Mar 2021 | $10.4M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Gitcoin Holdings Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Kyle WeissExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Kevin OwockiExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Overview
Gitcoin is a public goods funding platform founded in 2017 with origins in Colorado. It popularised quadratic funding, a matching mechanism that weights the number of contributors more heavily than the size of contributions. The organisation has distributed substantial grant funding to open-source developers across the Ethereum ecosystem.
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News
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Review & Recap - Protocols for Postcapitalist Expression
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Gitcoin screws up transfer, sends $460K to unrecoverable address
Gitcoin has lost $460,000 from its DAO treasury after it was mistakenly sent to an unrecoverable contract address.
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Bitcoin Halving Is Always Interesting Whether People Believe In It Or Not, Says Gitcoin's Azeem Khan
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Gitcoin Co-Founder Kevin Owocki Says the Next Bull Market 'Will Not Be Like the Last' CoinDesk Videos
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Studying the association between Gitcoin's issues and resolving outcomes
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2309.15017: Studying the association between Gitcoin's issues and resolving outcomes
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Why And How to Donate on Gitcoin Grants?
In case you haven't heard of it, Gitcoin Grants is a crowdfunding program hosted by Gitcoin - a platform supporting open-source software development...
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People
Kyle Weiss
Executive Officer, Director
Kevin Owocki
Executive Officer, Director
Michael Kriak
Director
Matt Huang
Director
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Denver
United States
HQ
10-50 est. staff
Financials
Total raised
$10.4M
Latest round
Convertible Note
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Convertible Note | 2021 | $10.4M | Details |