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Protocol Labs

Fintech · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2014

An open-source research, development, and deployment laboratory

Valuation $0–100M
Revenue $10–50M
Headcount 100–500
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Power Law Colt$25–100M revenue

Investors

13 investors on Protocol Labs's cap table

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

Seed 1 investor entered at this stage
Y Combinator
Series A 11 investors entered at this stage
Digital Currency Group
Ben Davenport
StartX
DHVC (Danhua Capital)
Haystack
Union Square Ventures
Techammer
FundersClub
Boost VC
Naval Ravikant
Fred Ehrsam
Series B+ 1 investor entered at this stage
Holon Global Investments

Protocol Labs mafia

Startups founded by Protocol Labs alumni

Former Protocol Labs employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

PrivyEst. 2021
Henri SternUnited States
Signal score92
ExpansoEst. 2023
Dave AronchickUnited States
Signal score80
KioskEst. 2024
CBCole BrownUnited States
Signal score78
Espresso SystemsEst. 2020
Ben FischUnited States
Signal score71
AkaveEst. 2024
DLDaniel LeónUnited States
Signal score71
FireproofEst. 2023
J Chris AndersonUnited States
Signal score68
WodanEst. 2024
Bob DuboisBelgium
Signal score66
Lumino LabsEst. 2023
ECEshan ChordiaUnited States
Signal score56
DecipadEst. 2020
Pedro TeixeiraUnited Kingdom
Signal score55
Finisterra LabsEst. 2024
Henrique MonizUnited States
Signal score53
reppo.xyzEst. 2024
Caroline CaiUnited Kingdom
Signal score52
RandamuEst. 2023
Erick WUnited States
Signal score47

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Global footprint

Where Protocol Labs has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
🇺🇸 United States · San Francisco HQ
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Web traffic by country
20K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States25.5%
🇳🇬 Nigeria12.5%
🇨🇦 Canada10%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom6.5%
🇮🇳 India6.5%
Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of Protocol Labs's talent

Dealroom maps Protocol Labs's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

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Capital deployed

Protocol Labs's 101 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Protocol Labs appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2020–2026. 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

101 deals across Protocol Labs's capital deployment.

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

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        Protocol Labs'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”.

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        Period
        101 of 101 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Protocol Labs

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Protocol Labs 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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