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🤝🏻 Team, Investors, and Partnerships of Monad (MON):
🧩 Team:
🟣 The project is developed by Monad Labs.
🟣 Founders:
• Keone Hon (CEO / Co-Founder)
• James Hunsaker (CTO / Co-Founder)
• Eunice Giarta
▫️The team previously worked at a major company where they built high-performance systems.
🟣 To ensure both the technical side and ecosystem growth move forward properly, Monad has split itself into two branches:
1️⃣ Monad Foundation:
Focused on ecosystem management, community building, marketing, and project direction.
2️⃣ Category Labs:
Responsible for technical development, engineering, coding, upgrades, and all blockchain-related work.
💰 Investors:
🤌🏻 Monad has raised capital through multiple rounds:
🟣 In early 2023, it completed a $19M Seed Round, led by Dragonfly Capital.
🟣 Several other VCs participated as well: Placeholder Capital, Lemniscap, Shima Capital, Finality Capital, as well as a number of well-known angel investors.
🤓 (Do you know who angel investors are?)
🟣 In 2024, the project raised a much larger $225M funding round, led by Paradigm. Major companies like Electric Capital and Greenoaks Capital also joined in.
🤝🏻 Partnerships:
🟣 Monad has acquired Portal Labs, a team working on stablecoin payments and payment systems.
This means Monad wants to have fast financial transactions and stablecoin payment infrastructure ready from day one — without starting from scratch.
🟣 Collaborations with Pyth and Switchboard Oracles:
These two projects are oracles, providing real-world data (like asset prices) to blockchains.
So Monad aims to ensure that financial applications built on its network have fast, accurate external data.
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