Polygon Spinoff Avail Secures $27M in Seed Funding From Founders Fund, Dragonfly
Polygon spinoff Avail raised $27m in seed funding led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Dragonfly, the company announced Monday.
The funding will go toward developing three key products within Avail’s platform: Data Availability (DA), Nexus, and Fusion.
“These core components, which constitute the Avail Trinity, will allow the network to accelerate the unification of web3,” Avail said in a statement.
“Today’s raise led by world-class VCs, Founders Fund and Dragonfly, accelerates our vision to unify the Web3 space and solve the growing pains of fragmentation,” said Avail co-founder Anurag Arjun.
“The rollup-centric future for scaling blockchains is already here,” he added. “Over the next few years, there will be a multitude of rollups, and not necessarily just EVM. There will be a whole host of non-EVM rollups, especially app-specific rollups. Rollup tooling will mature to such an extent that it will be as easy to deploy an app-specific rollup as it is to deploy a smart contract today.”
Avail’s funding arrives amid a surge in venture capital investment in the Web3 ecosystem. Last week, prominent VC firm Andreessen Horowitz announced a $100m investment in crypto restaking startup EigenLayer. Further, Hack VC revealed a $150m fund dedicated to backing projects centered on decentralizing the internet.
Avail started as part of Polygon Labs. Then it branched out on its own in March last year. It is currently run by Anurag Arjun, one of Polygon’s co-founders, and Prabal Banerjee, a former research lead. It was spun off to concentrate on being a protocol-neutral, open-source, and community-driven initiative.
Avail was constructed using Polkadot’s Substrate technology as it employs nominated proof-of-stake (nPOS) and promotes broad
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