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Polygon is a decentralized Ethereum scaling platform that enables developers to build scalable user-friendly dApps with low transaction fees without ever sacrificing on security.

Layer 1/Layer 2 Protocols

100-500

Employees

About

Polygon

Polygon is a platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development.

Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to all major scaling and infrastructure solutions, including L2 solutions (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid solutions, stand-alone and enterprise chains, data availability solutions, and more. Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 19K+ dApps, 1.6B+ total transactions processed, 135M+ unique user addresses, and $5B+ in assets secured.

Hiring Priorities

Rust Smart Contract Developer, Systems Engineer, General Centralized Application Developer, Director of Talent Acquisition, General Counsel

Investment Profile

$450M raise

Investors

Sequoia Capital India, Softbank Vision Fund, Tiger Global, Galaxy Digital, Sino Global Capital, Alameda Research, Digital Currency Group, Accel, Union Square Ventures, Dragonfly Capital, Alan Howard, Kevin O’Leary

Founder(s) Background

Jaynti Kanani - Co-founder & CEO. Jaynti is Co-founder & CEO at Polygon. He is a full-stack developer and blockchain engineer, and contributor to Web3, Plasma, WalletConnect. Previously, he was a data scientist at Housing.com.

Sandeep Nailwal - Co-founder. Sandeep started his career as a software engineer and, in 2015, launched ScopeWeaver, India's largest marketplace for professional services, where he designed blockchain-based decentralized application architecture. Prior to that, Sandeepled the technology department at Welspun, the largest textile company in Asia, and worked as a consultant at Deloitte.

Anurag Arjun - Co-founder. Anurag's background is in software product management. He has 11+ years of experience in building technology products, with deep experience in working with structured and unstructured financial data.

Mihailo Bjelic - Co-founder. Mihailo received his MSc in CS from the University of Belgrade. Prior to entering the Web3/blockchain industry, he co-founded an AI/ML-powered platform for automotive industry and several other smaller startups and side projects. In 2017, he decided to join the Web3 movement full-time, primarily as a researcher interested in Ethereum scaling and multi-chain paradigms. In parallel with his work, he became one of the prominent Ethereum proponents and community members. In 2019, he started working on Polygon and conceptualized its architecture, vision and brand. In 2020, he joined hands with the Matic Network team and they have been working together on Polygon since then.

About their Office

Headquarters: Mumbai | Remote

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