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Ingonyama
We are building accelerators for advanced cryptography to unlock real-time applications
About Ingonyama
Ingonyama is a next-generation semiconductor company specializing in hardware acceleration for Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs). The company develops accelerators for advanced cryptography, enabling real-time applications and making compute-intensive cryptography accessible for developers. Ingonyama's flagship product, ICICLE, is a GPU-accelerated cryptography library designed to build ZK provers quickly and efficiently. The company focuses on leveraging GPUs due to their parallel processing capabilities, which are crucial for ZK protocols. Ingonyama serves developers and businesses in the cryptography and blockchain sectors, providing tools that simplify and expedite the implementation of ZK protocols. The business model revolves around selling hardware accelerators and software libraries, as well as offering support and documentation to facilitate their use. Revenue is generated through product sales, licensing, and potentially through grants and partnerships.
Source: Dealroom company dataAt a glance
- Status
- Operational
- Founded
- 2021
- Headquarters
- Petah Tikva, Israel
- Employees
- 24
- Open positions
- None listed
- Dealroom signal
- 61.0/100
- Industry
- Security
- Sub-industry
- Data protection
- Sector
- Cybersecurity, Crypto and Web 3.0 Infrastructure, Crypto and Web3, Semiconductor Designers and Manufacturers, Chips and Processors, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, Hard Tech
- Technology
- Blockchain, Hardware, Deep Tech
- Business model
- SaaS
- Client focus
- b2b
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEED✓Equity / VC | Jan 2024 | $21M | $84M | BlueYard Capital · IOSG Ventures · Samsung Next · StarkWare Industries | ↗ |
Growth signals
Latest recorded traffic for Ingonyama is 3.6K monthly website visits, down 56.1% over the last three months. Ingonyama's team declined 17.2% over the past year.
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Investors
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Seed7 investors entered at this stage
IOSG Ventures
Walden Catalyst Ventures
Geometry
BlueYard Capital
Samsung Next
StarkWare Industries
Sentinel Global
Other known investors1 additional known investor
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