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Andreessen Horowitz Leads $50M Funding Round for Matter Labs
Matter Labs will use the funding to expand its scientific and engineering teams and finance its business growth.
Updated May 11, 2023, 7:06 p.m. Published Nov 8, 2021, 1:28 p.m.
Matter Labs, the firm behind Ethereum layer 2 scaling protocol zkSync, has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), the company said Monday.
- The funding will be used to finance Matter Labs’ business growth, including expanding its scientific and engineering teams.
- Other investors in the round included Placeholder, Dragonfly and 1kx, who also participated in the $6 million Series A funding round that closed in February.
- Blockchain.com, Crypto.com, Consensys, Bybit, OKEx, Alchemy, Covalent, Aave, ParaSwap, Lido, Futureswap, Gnosis, Rarible and others also contributed to the round.
- Matter Labs builds zero-knowledge (ZK) proof technology on Ethereum and launched its first public ZK rollup prototype in 2019.
- ZkSync version one is a ZK rollup for payments that is designed to speed up transactions and has been live on the Ethereum mainnet since July 2020.
Read more: A16z Leads $150M Round for NFT Game Platform Mythical Games at $1.25B Valuation
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