NEAR Protocol
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
NEAR Protocol is a scalable blockchain designed to provide the performance and user experience necessary to bridge the gap to mainstream adoption of decentralized applications. Unlike other next generation blockchains, this network has been built from the ground up to be the easiest in the world for both developers and their end users while stillproviding the scalability necessary to serve those users.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 67%
Last updated:
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Industries NEAR Protocol invests in
Stages NEAR Protocol invests in
Countries NEAR Protocol invests in
Contacts
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Lauren Pfeifer
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Alexandra Breines
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Gustav Friis
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 2 (67%)
- Retail 1 (33%)
- Big Data 1 (33%)
- Analytics 1 (33%)
- Communities 1 (33%)
Stage
- Grant 1 (33%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (33%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (33%)
Country
- United States 2 (67%)
- Singapore 1 (33%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Illia Polosukhin
Co-founder
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Co-founder | Total investments: 27 | Find email | |
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Lauren Pfeifer
Business Operations Manager
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Business Operations Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Alexander Skidanov
Co-Founder
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Co-Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Alexandra Breines
Marketing
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Marketing | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Gustav Friis
Business Operations
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Business Operations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Cosmose
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Cosmose AI empowers oCommerce by synergizing Offline and Online for Omnichannel. Our technology influences how more than 1 billion consumers shop by understanding their offline behavior, then delivers predictive analytics for businesses to optimize their marketing strategies and boost revenue. Connected to the world’s largest consumer markets withhigh regard for privacy, shoppers and businesses alike create their own unique shopping experiences with Cosmose. Omnipresent with connections to 500K+ locations and 1B+ smartphones, Cosmose is the leader in location intelligence for its positioning accuracy (to the nearest 1.6m) and seamlessness (no hardware needed). | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 24, 2023 | |
Mint Gate
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MintGate is a blockchain company that helps NFT creators create tokens or keys specific to their community for their users. | Pre-Seed / Jan 13, 2022 | |
darshana.ai
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Darshana aids in the verification of talent's work experience and skills. Our protocol is blockchain multi-chain and follow sovereign identity and verifiable credentials standards, specifically for work. Darshana integrates companies to verify and query verifications from talent, and provides talent with sovereign credentials. We onboardpeople via our work/talent marketplace and our diversity focused community. | $38K / Grant / Sep 01, 2021 |
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FAQ
What does NEAR Protocol invest in?
NEAR Protocol invests primarily in Blockchain, Retail and Big Data startups, most often at Grant and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at NEAR Protocol?
The team at NEAR Protocol includes Illia Polosukhin (Co-founder), Lauren Pfeifer (Business Operations Manager) and Alexander Skidanov (Co-Founder), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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