Ava Labs

VC · Brooklyn (United States)

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Cloud/SaaS

Fintech

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Ava Labs is a Brooklyn-based research and development company founded in 2018 by Emin Gün Sirer, a Cornell University professor. The company is renowned for developing Avalanche, a high-performance blockchain platform designed to support decentralized applications (dApps) and enterprise blockchain deployments. Avalanche is distinguished by its rapid transaction finality, low costs, and eco-friendly design, aiming to provide a scalable and efficient infrastructure for the blockchain ecosystem. Ava Labs has secured funding from prominent venture capital firms, including Andreessen Horowitz, Initialized Capital, and Polychain Capital, with angel investments from Balaji Srinivasan and Naval Ravikant. ( The company's mission is to digitize all the world's assets, enabling seamless and secure transactions across various industries.

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