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Ava Labs

Smart contracts platform for dApps

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201-500 employees
  • B2B
  • Cryptocurrency
  • SaaS
  • Blockchain
  • Web 3.0
Hell's Kitchen, New York, NY

Company mission

To build an open, simple, and democratic internet of finance that enables the world to have a more prosperous future.

Top investors

Few candidates hear
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61% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

The highly secure and decentralized nature of blockchain technology makes it an attractive prospect for financial projects - but historically, this has come with a compromise on transaction speed and scalability, with Ethereum and Blockchain speeds barely breaking into double digits per second.

Ava Labs’ open-source platform Avalanche enables companies to launch decentralized applications with all the benefits of blockchain, whilst processing a record-smashing 4,500 transactions per second. The company's strategy has been to tailor its blockchain to specific applications, establishing a reputation in the sector through efficient hard-and-fast use cases with low fees. This has allowed it to operate alongside blockchain giants like Ethereum that hoard large amounts of the DeFi market.

In answering the strong appetite for a cheaper and more scalable blockchain consensus, Ava Labs has found a keen audience, and secured the ability to pursue its goal of opening the space up to more users. The Avalanche platform has become the first to partner with Amazon Web Services, becoming part of a project to bring blockchain technology to government and enterprises. The company also partnered with digital identity verification provider Blockpass, to collaborate towards furthering the safety, security and capabilities of the ecosystem.

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Benefits

  • Team Activities
  • 401k (non-matching)
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Comprehensive Insurance
  • Short-term/long-term Disability
  • Life Insurance
  • Happy Hour Fridays
  • Remote-friendly Networking
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Remote Friendly
  • Volunteer Time-Off

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Apr 2022

$350m

LATE VC

Sep 2021

$230m

LATE VC

Total funding: $586m

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Leadership

Kevin Sekniqi

(COO & Chief Protocol Architect)

Former Researcher and Software Engineer at Microsoft and NASA, with a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell.

Founder of Bloxroute Labs and professor at Cornell for 20 years with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

Jobs (2)

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Software Engineering