Overview
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$19.7M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$4.7M
Venture round · Apr 2025 · 18 mo ago
Team
14
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +100% in a year
Grants
$539k
1 grant · CORDIS
The money's age
Due for its next round
18 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
2025 Team of 14 was 7 · US Form 5500 (plan participants) Apr 17, 2025 Raised a round Venture round $4.7M · SEC Form D Jul 7, 2022 Raised a round Venture round $14.9M · SEC Form D 2022 Founded Jun 1, 2019 Won a grant $539k · CORDIS
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Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
14 public repositories
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Apr 2025 $4.7M — SEC Form D
Venture round Jul 2022 $14.9M — SEC Form D
Grant Jun 2019 $539k — CORDIS
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Para Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
David PickerellExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Overview

Para, formerly Capsule, provides embedded wallet infrastructure that lets applications create wallets tied to email or social logins. Keys are split using multi-party computation so neither the developer nor Para can move funds alone. The company serves consumer applications that want blockchain accounts without seed phrase onboarding.

People

David Pickerell
Executive Officer, Director
Yuechen Zhao
Director
Wesley Gottesman
Director
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
New York United States
HQ
50-200 est. staff

Financials

Total raised
$20.2M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $4.7M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $14.9M Details
Grant 2019 $539k Details