StarkWare

Web3 · Netanya, IL · starkware.co

Blockchain scaling technology using STARK cryptographic proofs

Founders

Eli Ben-Sasson (Israel · ♂) — A Technion CS professor and founding scientist of Zcash who co-invented STARK zero-knowledge proofs, he co-founded StarkWare in 2018 to commercialize that cryptography for blockchain scalability.
Uri Kolodny (Israel · ♂) — A serial entrepreneur, he handled business strategy as StarkWare's founding CEO, partnering with the cryptographers to turn STARK research into a company.
Michael Riabzev (Israel · ♂) — Eli's former PhD student and STARK co-inventor at the Technion, he co-founded StarkWare as CTO to lead its cryptographic engineering.
Alessandro Chiesa (Italy · ♂) — A UC Berkeley professor and Zerocash co-author specializing in zero-knowledge proofs, he co-founded StarkWare as chief scientist.

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
May 2022	Series D Plus StarkWare, an Israeli blockchain scaling startup, raised $100M in Series D at an $8B valuation, led by Greenoaks Capital and Coatue with Tiger Global participating; the round included a secondary employee share sale.	$100M

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