Avail has secured $43 million in a Series A funding round to develop secure rollup interoperability and data availability.
According to a press release shared with CryptoNews, the latest round saw investments from Founders Fund, DragonFly Capital, Cyber Fund, and participants including SevenX, Figment, Nomad Capital, LocalGlobe, Altos Ventures, Chapter One, among other VCs and investors.
We're thrilled to announce that we have secured $75m in total funding.
Led by @foundersfund, @dragonfly_xyz, and @cyberfund_, we have closed pre-seed, seed, and series A rounds of $5M, $27M, and $43M respectively.
With this, we're looking forward to accelerating our vision of… pic.twitter.com/PHOgtC1knu
— Avail (@AvailProject) June 4, 2024
The funding will accelerate Avail’s mission to solve scalable data availability and interoperability challenges within the web3 sector through their Unification Layer technology stack.
The release stated that the Unification Layer aims to combine data availability, aggregation, and shared security to enable modular blockchains to scale and interoperate seamlessly.
This approach would help address issues of blockchain fragmentation and limited scaling, providing a more efficient and secure infrastructure for web3 applications.
“This Series A funding marks a pivotal moment for Avail as we strive to build the permissionless unification layer for web3,” said Avail co-founder Anurag Arjun.
“With this new capital, we are poised to accelerate our development, expand our global presence, and continue to address the most critical challenges facing web3 today, such as blockchain fragmentation, insufficient data availability, and limited scaling,” stated Arjun.
Avail also plans to use the new capital to foster