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Starkware

$168Tdisclosed portfolio round capital
1 Jul, 2025last investment
40portfolio companies
23team members

Analyst signals

Portfolio activity and matriculation

Metrics use all recorded activity through 21 Jul 2026 across pre seed, private, seed, series a, series b, series c, strategic, unknown. Later-round outcomes are capped at the period end.

42.5%companies with a later round · 17/40
2.58×median round-size step-up · n=14
Not availablemedian valuation step-up · n=0
2.4%recorded-solo rate · 1 solo / 40 syndicated
Finance · 9 companiesInfrastructure · 6 companiesData & Analytics · 3 companies

These are activity signals, not fund-return metrics. Round capital is the full disclosed financing amount, not this fund's check size. “Recorded solo” means only one investor is present in the source data and is a lead signal, not verified lead status; syndicated rounds are a co-investor or follower signal. IRR, TVPI, DPI, ownership, exits, and market beta cannot be calculated from the available records.

Opportunities

Crypto jobs across Starkware's portfolio

30 current roles at companies backed by Starkware, sourced from JobStash's crypto job board.

People

Team

A

Alessandro Chiesa

Co-Founder

A

Avihu Levy

CPO

A

Avi Wigderson

Scientific Advisor

B

Balaji Srinivasan

Advisor

D

Dan Held

Advisor

E

Eli Ben-Sasson

Co-Founder, CEO

H

Harish Devarajan

Independent Board Member

J

Jack Liu

Advisor

J

Joseph Lubin

Advisor

M

Madhu Sudan

Scientific Advisor

M

Matt Huang

Board Member

M

Moni Naor

Scientific Advisor

N

Naval Ravikant

Advisor

N

Noam Nisan

Scientific Advisor

O

Oren Katz

COO

P

Paul Veradittakit

Board Observer

S

Scott Aaronson

Scientific Advisor

S

Shafi Goldwasser

Scientific Advisor

S

Shubhangi Saraf

Scientific Advisor

S

Swastik Kopparty

Scientific Advisor

T

Tom Glocer

Advisor

U

Ulrich Haböck

Scientific Advisor

U

Uri Kolodny

Co-founder, Board Member

Portfolio

Investments

Full financing histories for portfolio companies. Highlighted rounds are those where Starkware is recorded as an investor.

Aligned is a vertically integrated stack for building applications on a verifiable internet. It provides the foundation for provable execution with one-click solutions for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and ZK services for financial infrastructure and AI systems. The company is creating the foundation for a trustless, verifiable internet, empowering developers to build applications on Ethereum. Aligned is a blockchain infrastructure project, likely an Actively Validated Service (AVS), and is seeking operators for its Mainnet Beta.

Public token sale9 Jan, 2025$1T round
Public Sale1 Jan, 2025$1M round
Seed13 Apr, 2024$2.6T roundSyndicated · 18 disclosed investors
Series A1 Apr, 2024$20M round
Pre-Seed1 Jan, 2024$1M round

Arbelos Markets provides liquidity and trading solutions in the crypto sector.

M&A1 Jan, 2025
Private8 May, 2024$28T roundSyndicated · 12 disclosed investors
Seed1 May, 2024$28M roundSyndicated · 12 disclosed investors
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Arcus

hybrid
Finance

Arcus is a decentralized exchange built in partnership with Robinhood on Robinhood Chain, founded by the team behind dYdX. It offers self-custodied trading of stock tokens (spot, zero fees, 24/7) and cross-margined perpetual futures across equities, crypto, commodities, and indices with up to 50x leverage, serving retail and institutional traders in eligible jurisdictions.

Series C1 Jun, 2021$65M roundSyndicated · 16 disclosed investors
Series B1 Jan, 2021$10M round
Series A1 Oct, 2018$10M round
Seed1 Dec, 2017$2M round
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Argent

crypto

Argent provides a smart wallet for Starknet, enabling users to buy and trade crypto with ease.

Series B1 Apr, 2022$40M roundSyndicated · 8 disclosed investors
Series A1 Mar, 2020$12M round
Seed1 Apr, 2018$180K round
Seed1 Jan, 2018$4M round
Data & Analytics

Bitcoin Layers is an open-source platform for analyzing Bitcoin L2s, wrapped Bitcoin tokens, and other Bitcoin-adjacent protocols. It presents network supply data and comparative information about technical tradeoffs, trust assumptions, risks, and custody models.

Unknown1 Jul, 2025Syndicated · 3 disclosed investors
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Bitlayer

crypto
Infrastructure

BitLayer provides blockchain infrastructure solutions aimed at enhancing the development and deployment of decentralized networks and applications.

Public token sale14 Aug, 2025$5T round
Public Sale1 Aug, 2025$5M round
Unknown1 May, 2025
Series A+8 Oct, 2024$9T round
Series A1 Oct, 2024$9M round$300M valuation
Series A23 Jul, 2024$11T round
Unknown1 May, 2024
Seed1 Mar, 2024$5M roundSyndicated · 28 disclosed investors
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Braavos

crypto
Uncategorized

Braavos is a self-custody smart contract wallet for Bitcoin and Starknet, offering biometric 2FA security and DeFi features on mobile and browser.

Seed31 Oct, 2022$10T roundSyndicated · 6 disclosed investors
Service Provider

Carbonable provides an all-in-one platform for enterprises to plan, manage, monitor, and report carbon contributions. It uses verifiable data, blockchain technology, smart contracts, satellite imagery, and AI to support carbon-removal management and ESG reporting.

Seed21 Mar, 2023$1.2T roundSyndicated · 3 disclosed investors
Gaming

Cartridge is an onchain gaming infrastructure company that helps game studios build player-owned economies with real-money rewards. Its platform combines a game-native wallet/identity layer (Controller), a deterministic onchain game engine (Dojo Engine), and managed execution infrastructure (Slot) so studios can launch regulatory-compliant, provably fair games. It serves game studios and developers building fully onchain and hybrid games such as Loot Survivor, Eternum, and Jokers of Neon.

Series A1 Aug, 2024$7.5M roundSyndicated · 6 disclosed investors
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Chakra

crypto
Infrastructure

Chakra is a modular Bitcoin settlement network for cross-chain liquidity. It provides a shared settlement layer and proof-of-stake architecture for bridging native BTC and BTC-derived assets across blockchain ecosystems.

Unknown1 Apr, 2024Syndicated · 6 disclosed investors
Infrastructure

Espresso Systems develops and operates blockchain infrastructure for custom chains, rollups, and financial systems. Its Espresso Network provides fast finality, data availability, decentralized sequencing, and crosschain interoperability for applications requiring control, performance, and connectivity.

Public token sale5 Aug, 2025$4T round
Public Sale1 Aug, 2025$4M round$400M valuation
Series B1 Mar, 2024$28M roundSyndicated · 6 disclosed investors
Series A8 Mar, 2022$32T round
Seed30 Nov, 2020$3.1T round
Seed1 Jul, 2020$2M round
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Focus Tree SAS

out of scope
Uncategorized

Focus Tree SAS operates Focus Tree, a productivity and focus-management mobile app for students. It provides distraction blocking, focus timers, flashcards with spaced repetition, social study features, digital gardens, and AI quizzes; optional digital-asset and blockchain features are available to adults.

Seed1 May, 2024$2M roundSyndicated · 21 disclosed investors
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Fordefi

crypto
Uncategorized

Fordefi is an asset management platform providing secure custody solutions for institutional clients in DeFi, focusing on security and operational efficiency.

M&A1 Nov, 2025$100M round
Seed+13 Feb, 2024$10T round
Unknown1 Feb, 2024$10M round
Seed8 Nov, 2022$18T roundSyndicated · 14 disclosed investors
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Giza

crypto
Finance

Giza is an AI agent platform that enables autonomous DeFi agents to monitor markets, optimize yield, and execute on-chain strategies without user intervention.

Unknown15 May, 2025$2.2T round
Pre-Seed11 Jul, 2023$3T roundSyndicated · 7 disclosed investors
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Hyli

crypto

Enjoy the unbeatable combination of onchain security and offchain performance.

Seed1 May, 2024$2.6M round
Pre-Seed1 Jan, 2024$800K roundRecorded solo · lead signal
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Ingonyama

crypto
Developer Tooling

Ingonyama is a hardware-acceleration company for high-performance cryptography. Its open-source ICICLE library helps developers accelerate zero-knowledge proving and other cryptographic workloads across CPUs, GPUs, Apple Silicon, and other compute backends.

Seed23 Jan, 2024$21T roundSyndicated · 10 disclosed investors
Seed9 Nov, 2023$20T round
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KKRT Labs

crypto
Developer Tooling

KKRT Labs builds Kakarot, a zero-knowledge EVM proof-generation engine. It aims to prove Ethereum protocol execution in real time for Ethereum-equivalent chains, including L1s, rollups, and Bitcoin sidechains.

Seed14 Nov, 2023
Pre-Seed2 Jun, 2023Syndicated · 20 disclosed investors
Gaming

MatchboxDAO is an ecosystem DAO dedicated to igniting and fueling the creation of fully on-chain games.

Seed17 Aug, 2022$7.5T roundSyndicated · 17 disclosed investors
Blockchain Platforms

=nil; Foundation develops zero-knowledge infrastructure for Ethereum scalability through zkSharding, zkLLVM compiler, and trustless proof systems.

Unknown1 Jan, 2023$22M roundSyndicated · 4 disclosed investors
Infrastructure

Orderly Network helps developers build trading applications by providing omnichain orderbook infrastructure that unifies liquidity across multiple blockchains.

Strategic15 Aug, 2024$5T round
SAFT28 Mar, 2023
Unknown1 Nov, 2022Syndicated · 21 disclosed investors
Seed9 Jun, 2022$20T round
Strategic1 Jun, 2022$20M round
Finance

Parallel Finance is a crypto infrastructure and DeFi organization currently rebuilding its product platform.

Strategic1 Apr, 2022$5M round$500M valuationSyndicated · 3 disclosed investors
Series A1 Aug, 2021$22M round$150M valuation
Seed1 Jun, 2021$2M round$40M valuation
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Perena

crypto
Finance

Perena helps users swap, provide liquidity, and launch stablecoins through a unified stableswap infrastructure.

Unknown1 Jul, 2025Syndicated · 14 disclosed investors
Pre-Seed1 Dec, 2024
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Pragma

crypto
Data & Analytics

Pragma is an open, permissionless oracle infrastructure provider for Starknet. It supplies verifiable on-chain price and computational data feeds for developers and DeFi protocols.

Seed1 Jul, 2022$7M roundSyndicated · 10 disclosed investors
Finance

PWN is a universal peer-to-peer lending protocol enabling fixed-rate loans using any token as collateral.

Seed28 Jun, 2023$2T round
Unknown1 Jun, 2023$2M roundSyndicated · 10 disclosed investors