The company
NEAR is a decentralized application platform with the potential to change how systems are designed, how applications are built and how the web itself works.
It is a complex technology with a simple goal — allow developers and entrepreneurs to easily and sustainably build applications which secure high value assets like money and identity while making them performant and usable enough for consumers to access.
To do this, NEAR is built from the ground up to deliver intuitive experiences for end users, scale capacity across millions of devices and provide developers with new and sustainable business models for their applications. In doing so, NEAR is creating the only community-run cloud strong enough to extend the reach of Open Finance and power the future of the Open Web.
Illia Polosukhin and Alexander Skidanov started NEAR.ai in early 2017
Women-led
2017
Non-profit
Marieke Flament, CEO
Zug, Zug, Switzerland
Invested by
Tiger Global
FTX Ventures
Alameda
Dragonfly Capital
Mechanism Capital
Jump Capital
MetaStable
Electric Capital
Multicoin Capital
Scalar Capital
Blockchain.com
Libertus Capital
Greenfield One
Pantera Capital
Republic Capital
Hashed
Three Arrows Capital
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Zee Prime
Amber Group
Accomplice
Amplify Partners
Coinbase Ventures
Xpring
Baidu Ventures
IOSG Ventures
Distributed Global
SV Angel
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