VALR
valr.com
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Crypto Exchanges
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$50M
1 round on record
Latest round
$50M
Series B · Mar 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
2
4Di Capital, Cadenza Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
55 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 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 2, 2022
Raised a round Series B $50M
Jun 21, 2021
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: VALR Pay – Free ZAR Payments
2018
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | Mar 2022 | $50M | — | iafrikan.com |
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4Di Capital 
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Overview
VALR is a global cryptocurrency exchange headquartered and licensed in South Africa that provides a secure, high-performance trading platform for retail and professional traders. VALR enables users to buy, sell, store, stake and transact cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana via mobile app and web, and supports deeply liquid spot, spot margin and perpetual futures markets. The company offers yield products (liquid staking), institutional-grade APIs with real-time and historical market data and governance features, fiat on/off-ramps (including ZAR and USD), automated KYC/AML onboarding, and 18-hour customer support for retail and private technical channels for corporate clients.
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at VALR over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
26
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
76/100AI adopter
Languages
Bash
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Azure
GCP
GitHub
GitLab
Grafana
Kubernetes
Linux
Developer tools
ArgoCD
Docker
Helm
Kustomize
Prometheus
Pulumi
Terraform
AI & ML
Claude
Practices & domains
CI/CD
DNS
GitOps
IAM
Platform Engineering
SRE
TCP/IP
Staking
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
48/100
Stable
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
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.
DevOps
100% ▲
Jobs
≈ $37k – $77k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Africa) • South Africa
Bash
Claude
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Helm
Kustomize
PagerDuty
Prometheus
Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
ArgoCD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
SRE
Platform Engineering
GitHub
GitLab
IAM
Linux
TCP/IP
DNS
Cybersecurity
Least Privilege
Web3
Staking
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Financials
Total raised
$50M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | 2022 | $50M | Details |