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Filecoin Foundation

Filecoin is the world’s largest decentralized storage network. Filecoin Foundation's mission is to preserve humanity's most important information, as well as to facilitate the open source governance of the Filecoin network, fund research and development projects for decentralized technologies, and support the growth of the Filecoin ecosystem and community.
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Current stage: Seed5 current maintainers4 active leads2 new active leads5 lead step-downs1 early lead departure

Maintainer signals as of Aug 10, 2026


Current Funding Stage

Seed

Current recognized equity stage. The rounds below remain the historical funding record.

Funding Rounds

Funding Round: ICO
Funding Date: 7 Sep, 2017
Raised Amount: $257M

Funding Round: Seed
Funding Date: 8 Aug, 2017
Raised Amount: $300K

Funding Round: Seed
Funding Date: 16 Jul, 2014
Raised Amount: $120K

Investors