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Colony
Community-driven ecosystem accelerator powering Avalanche’s growth, Community-driven ecosystem accelerator powering Avalanche’s growth
About Colony
Colony Lab operates within the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, focusing on the Avalanche ecosystem. The company provides a platform that leverages a unique hybrid token, CLY, which serves dual purposes: DAO governance and liquid exposure to value flow. Colony Lab's business model involves deploying capital to support promising projects on Avalanche, financing their growth, and facilitating efficient development. The company generates revenue through its Liquidity Provider Program, which buys back CLY tokens, and by offering exposure to the Avalanche ecosystem via the Objective CAI benchmark index. This index includes the native AVAX token and other prominent projects, aiming to improve investor returns by generating yield on underlying assets. Colony Lab targets both individual and institutional investors seeking diversified exposure to the Avalanche ecosystem, ensuring they benefit from the ecosystem's overall growth. The company's strategic capital allocation and risk management practices are designed to optimize returns while spreading risk and volatility proportionally to market capitalization.
Source: Dealroom company dataAt a glance
- Status
- Operational
- Founded
- 2021
- Headquarters
- Seychelles
- Employees
- 4
- Open positions
- None listed
- Dealroom signal
- 57.0/100
- Sector
- Decentralised Applications, Defi, DAO, Avalanche Ecosystem, Hard Tech
- Technology
- Blockchain
- Business model
- SaaS
- Client focus
- b2b
- Investment activity
- 5 companies, latest Sep 2023
- Capital deployed
- $7.6M
- Preferred round
- EARLY VC
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEED✓Equity / VC | Nov 2021 | $19M | $74M | Polychain Capital · AVA Labs · Bixin Ventures · Three Arrows Capital | ↗ |
Growth signals
Latest recorded traffic for Colony is 1K monthly website visits, up 150% over the last three months. Colony's team declined 50% over the past year.
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed8 investors entered at this stage
AVA Labs
Polychain Capital
Bixin Ventures- TCThree Arrows Capital
GBV Capital
HashKey Capital
Shima Capital- AFAvalanche Foundation
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