# Protocol Labs: Crypto / Web3, Palo Alto, United States

> Protocol Labs: Protocol Labs is an open-source research, development, and deployment laboratory. Based in Palo Alto, United States. Founded 2014.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/startup/protocol-labs (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

United States · [Crypto / Web3 startup](https://millionrounds.com/companies)

# Protocol Labs

Protocol Labs is an open-source research, development, and deployment laboratory.

Listed

Crypto / Web3 Palo Alto, United States

Company summary

- **Founded:** 2014 12 years old
- **Team:** 130 51 to 200 people
- **Funding reported:** - none reported
- **Last round:** - date not reported

How sure we are

- 1 **Listed** We know it exists and what it does
- 2 **Funding reported** A company dataset reports a raise
- 3 **Observed** A filing or a dated announcement confirms a round

No round for Protocol Labs has been confirmed by a filing or an announcement yet, so nothing here counts toward an investor's record. [How we decide](https://millionrounds.com/methodology)

## About Protocol Labs

Protocol Labs is an open-source research, development, and deployment laboratory.

Our projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and many more. We aim to make human existence orders of magnitude better through technology. Some of our projects. IPFS makes the web work peer-to-peer. IPFS is a protocol for storing, addressing, and transferring data, designed to replace HTTP in many contexts. IPFS uses content-addressing to uniquely identify and link to information. IPFS is one of the leading protocols of Web3, crypto, and the decentralized web movements. IPFS serves millions of end users and tens of thousands of developers. It powers the websites and applications of small startups, large enterprises, and even blockchains. Filecoin is a decentralized storage network, designed to store humanity's most important information. Filecoin is a cryptocurrency incentivized decentralized market, where storage providers earn filecoin tokens for renting out storage space. (Think airbnb for cloud storage). Filecoin is one of the leading projects in the cryptocurrency/blockchain space.

## On 8 portfolio pages

Investors who name them

- [Winklevoss Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/winklevoss-capital)
- [BlueYard Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/blueyard-capital)
- [Portal Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/portal-ventures)
- [A16z Crypto](https://millionrounds.com/fund/a16z-crypto)
- [Draft Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/draft-ventures)
- [Step Ahead Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/step-ahead-capital)
- [MRTNZ Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mrtnz)
- [Mana Industries](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mana-industries)

Each firm lists Protocol Labs on its own website. That is the firm's claim, a weaker thing than a round we watched, but a named source.

## Crypto / Web3 in United States

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- [**ZeroDev** New York](https://millionrounds.com/startup/zerodev)
- [**Argo** Los Angeles](https://millionrounds.com/startup/argo-8)

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