About

Founded

2018

Headquarters

Netanya, Israel

Industry

Cryptocurrency

Company Description

StarkWare solves the inherent problems of blockchains – scalability and privacy. We develop a full proof stack, using STARK technology to generate and verify proofs of computational integrity. StarkWare’s cryptographic proofs are zero-knowledge, succinct, transparent and post-quantum secure. We use high-level math to develop scaling solutions that provide blockchain users with a secure, fast, and seamless experience.

Quick Links

Website Jobs

Funding

Total Raised

$273 million

Valuation

$8 billion

Significant Investors

Greenoaks, Tiger Global Management, Paradigm, Floodgate, Pantera Capital, DCVC, Coinbase Ventures, Scalar Capital, Coatue

Company Traction

As of May 2023, StarkWare minted 107 million NFTs.

As of May 2023, StarkWare’s total volume traded was $957 billion, total equity locked was $511 million, and the total amount of various transactions processed was 431 million.

Leadership Team

Uri Kolodny: Co-Founder & CEO of StarkWare. Former Co-Founder & CEO of Mondria Technologies.

Eli Ben-Sasson: Co-Founder, President, and Chairman of the Board of StarkWare. Former Founding Scientist at Electric Coin Company.

Michael Riabzev: Co-Founder & Chief Architect of StarkWare. Former Research and Development Engineer at IBM.

Ittay Dror: Chief Architect, R&D Manager at StarkWare. Former Chief Architect and Senior Director of Cloud Engineering at Akamai Technologies.‍

Oren Katz: VP of Engineering at StarkWare. Former VP R&D, GM Israel at Fundbox.

Press

CoinDesk (May 25, 2022): StarkWare Reaches $8B Valuation Following Latest $100M Funding Round

Cointelegraph (February 5, 2023): Starkware commits to open source its ‘magic wand’ Starknet Prover

StarkWare