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LayerZero

Fintech · Vancouver, Canada · Founded 2021

Building LayerZero, an omnichain interoperability protocol

Talent graph

LayerZero's talent

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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

36 investors on LayerZero's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series A 19 investors entered at this stage
PayPal Ventures
Tiger Global
Andreessen Horowitz
Protocol Ventures
Christie's
Robot Ventures
FTX
The Spartan Group
Multicoin Capital
DeFiance Capital
YZi Labs
Binance
Delphi Digital
Hypersphere Ventures
Sequoia
Coinbase Ventures
Uniswap Labs
Genblock Capital
Ryze Labs
Series B+ 17 investors entered at this stage
Citadel
GS Futures
IOBC Capital
Chapter One Ventures
Com2uS
ARK Invest
OpenSea
a16z crypto
OKX Ventures
Tether
Atrum
Circle Ventures
Baring Private Equity Asia
Bixin Capital
Franklin Templeton Investments
Samsung Next
Lightspeed Venture Partners

Ownership

Who owns LayerZero

Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.

54.2% Founders
  • Andreessen Horowitza16z crypto 8.5%

Some investors are hidden on this public profile. See the full cap table on Dealroom →

Global footprint

Where LayerZero has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
19 countries with
team presence
🇨🇦 Canada53%
🇺🇸 United States19.4%
🇸🇬 Singapore4.1%
🇵🇱 Poland3.1%
🇮🇳 India2.4%
Top 5 of 19 shown
Web traffic by country
61K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States22.1%
🇨🇦 Canada11.3%
🇮🇳 India7.2%
🇳🇬 Nigeria6.9%
🇪🇸 Spain6.4%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$8k patent portfolio · 2 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$8k
<0.01% of valuation · 677.1× smaller than top peer Circle ($5M)
2 active patent families

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

LayerZero's 7 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where LayerZero appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2023–2025. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

7 deals across LayerZero's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        Where LayerZero deploys vs peers

        Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        LayerZero's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        7 of 7 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about LayerZero

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about LayerZero on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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