Category Labs

📍 New York, United States🗓 Founded 2022👥 66 employees💰 Last funded Jan 2024
Software Development🌐 category.xyz
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Category Labs (formerly known as Monad Labs) is a team of systems engineers and researchers on a mission to design and build at the frontier of decentralized technology. We strive to design and build step-function improvements over existing blockchain solutions. Such greenfield systems include from-scratch databases, Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus mechanisms, JIT compilers for EVM bytecode, and much more. We recently raised $225M in series A funding, and are backed by Paradigm, Electric Capital, Dragonfly Capital, and others. Category Labs is building the next generation of blockchain infrastructure with Monad, an EVM-compatible layer 1 that dramatically improves performance. Deep optimization is needed across all levels of the stack - from the database layer, to the virtual machine layer, to the consensus and networking layer - in order to streamline EVM transaction processing. We are introducing these low-level optimizations, allowing consumer-grade hardware to deliver exceptional performance while maintaining a high degree of decentralization.
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Who invested in Category Labs?
Category Labs has 6 investors on record on gritt.io, including 2 early-stage backers.
When did Category Labs last raise funding?
The most recent investment in Category Labs recorded on gritt.io was in January 2024.
When was Category Labs founded?
Category Labs was founded in 2022.
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Where is Category Labs based?
Category Labs is headquartered in New York, United States.