StarkWare
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$186.5M
5 rounds on record
Latest round
$50M
Venture round · May 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Backers
7
Coatue, Collab+Currency
The money's age
Long since its last round
53 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
15/100
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this month
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The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 3, 2025
Launched StarkWare Launches Appchains on Starknet with New Developer Toolkit · coindesk.com
May 24, 2022
New executive Nitzan Shemer-Grossman, Executive Officer · SEC Form D
May 10, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $50M · SEC Form D
Dec 2, 2021
New executive Naomi Hacham, Executive Officer · SEC Form D
Nov 18, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $25M · SEC Form D
Mar 24, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $75M · SEC Form D
Sep 26, 2018
Raised a round Venture round $30.5M · SEC Form D
May 10, 2018
Raised a round Seed $6M
2018
Founded
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | May 2022 | $50M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Nov 2021 | $25M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Mar 2021 | $75M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Sep 2018 | $30.5M | — | SEC Form D |
| Seed | May 2018 | $6M | — | medium.com |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Avihu LevyExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Michael RiabzevExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Uri KolodnyExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Eli Ben-SassonExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Ran GrinshteinExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Alessandro ChiesaExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Coatue 
Collab+Currency 
Figment Capital 
Floodgate 
Hack VC 
Sequoia Capital 
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Overview
StarkWare is a cryptography company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Netanya, Israel. It commercialised STARK proofs for blockchain scaling and built Starknet, a validity rollup with its own Cairo programming language. The firm's proving technology also powers application-specific scaling engines used by exchanges and payment platforms.
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StarkWare's coding contest cuts quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction cost to $66
StarkWare's optimization challenge cut the GPU cost for a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction from $320 to $66, a 79% reduction achieved in under a
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StarkWare Says Quantum-Resistant Bitcoin Transaction Now Costs Under $67
Quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction costs fell 79% to under $67 after a one-week StarkWare challenge using developers and AI models.
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Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Compute Cost Falls 79% to Under $67
StarkWare says an optimization challenge it launched earlier this month has already cut the cost of preparing a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction by 79% in benchmark testing.
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StarkWare secures Bitcoin with quantum-safe method on mainnet
StarkWare mined the first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction on mainnet without a network upgrade, using hash-based cryptography within existing
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StarkWare completes first quantum-safe bitcoin transaction
Scott Melker discusses StarkWare's completion of the first quantum-safe Bitcoin (BTC-USD) transaction, a milestone that could help address one of the crypto network's biggest long-term security challenges."The Daily Wolf with Scott Melker" airs every day
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'Worst Crypto Winter I've Seen'-But Bitcoin, Ethereum Can Still Win, StarkWare Co-Founder Says
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Privacy Push Accelerates as StarkWare and Sui Launch Compliance-Ready Confidential Transfers
StarkWare and Sui unveil new privacy systems enabling programmable confidential transfers, as Zama tightens compliance and Zcash bug raises concerns over shielded pools.
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People
Avihu Levy
Executive Officer
Michael Riabzev
Executive Officer
Uri Kolodny
Executive Officer, Director
Eli Ben-Sasson
Executive Officer, Director
Ran Grinshtein
Executive Officer
Alessandro Chiesa
Executive Officer
Sarit Asta
Executive Officer
Oren Katz
Executive Officer
Naomi Hacham
Executive Officer
Nitzan Shemer-Grossman
Executive Officer
Harish Devarajan
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
Netanya
Israel
HQ
Contact Us
50-200 est. staff
32 Ha'melacha St. Netanya
Financials
Total raised
$186.5M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
5