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Protocol Labs is an open-source research, development, and deployment laboratory with projects that include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and many more.

Infrastructure

100-500

Employees

About

Protocol Labs

Protocol Labs is a fully-distributed open-source organization that builds protocols, tools, and services to radically improve the internet.

Their products, which includes IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, Testground, IPLD, Multiformats, SourceCred, ProtoSchool, and drand, serve thousands of organizations and millions of people. Their work spans the entire innovation pipeline, from the earliest research ideation to deploying end-user products.

Hiring Priorities

Product Manager, Research Engineer, Technical Program Manager, Software Engineer, Engineering Manager

Investment Profile

$10.9M raise

Investors

MRTNZ Ventures, BlueYard Capital, a16z, Sequoia, Union Square Ventures Winklevoss Capital, Boost VC, FundersClub, DHVC, StartX

Founder(s) Background

Juan Benet - Founder & CEO. Juan Benet is the inventor of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a new protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open, and Filecoin, a cryptocurrency incentivized storage network. The IPFS Project has grown into a large open source movement to re-decentralize the web, safeguard our data, and improve our applications. Juan is the founder of Protocol Labs, the internet tech R&D lab that develops IPFS and Filecoin. He studied Computer Science at Stanford University, and is obsessed with knowledge, science, and technology.

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Remote

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