Block.one Funding, Investors & Competitors

Alchemy is a blockchain developer platform powering over 70 percent of top web3 applications with APIs for Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism. Services include node infrastructure, enhanced APIs, and analytics dashboards used by OpenSea, Uniswap, and Dapper Labs. San Francisco-headquartered since 2020, the company processes 10 billion compute units monthly across 1 million daily active app chains.

Celestia is a modular blockchain network that supplies data availability sampling for rollups and sidechains. Developers deploy sovereign chains using its lightweight clients and pay for data posting via TIA tokens. The mainnet launched in 2023 supports blocks up to 1 GB in size through Namespaced Merkle Trees. Celestia operates validators across 40 countries and integrates with Ethereum, Cosmos, and Polygon ecosystems. Incorporated in 2019, it bases headquarters in Vaduz, Liechtenstein.

Blockdaemon provides enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure, managing nodes and payment rails across networks. Los Angeles-headquartered since 2017, it enables seamless chain switching, portability, and DevOps support for the developer ecosystem.

Datadog is a cloud-native company that focuses on analyzing machine data. The firm's product portfolio, delivered via software as a service, enables clients to monitor and analyze their entire information technology infrastructure, from servers to applications and Python scripts. Datadog's platform can ingest and analyze large amounts of machine-generated data in real time, allowing clients to utilize it for a variety of applications throughout their businesses to ensure uptime and latency objectives.

Founded in 2007, MongoDB is a vendor of a document-oriented database that accelerates development processes of new applications. Enterprise customers can choose between the fully managed offering, MongoDB Atlas, or the self-managed version, MongoDB Enterprise Advanced. MongoDB is a popular tool among developers, and its free Community Server has recorded over 500 million downloads since 2009.

Fireblocks is a New York-headquartered digital asset security platform safeguarding cryptocurrency transfers between exchanges, wallets, and custodians. Its MPC-CMP technology eliminates single points of failure in private key management, supporting over 1,800 tokens across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and layer-2 networks. The Fireblocks Network connects more than 1,800 institutional clients including BNY Mellon, Galaxy Digital, and Kraken for seamless, insured transfers. Founded in 2018, the platform processes over $10 trillion in transactions annually and integrates with custody providers worldwide.

Anthropic is an AI safety company developing large language models and researching methods to make artificial intelligence more reliable and steerable. Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers including Dario and Daniela Amodei. The company's flagship product is Claude, a family of AI assistants deployed across consumer applications and enterprise APIs. Research priorities center on constitutional AI, mechanistic interpretability, and alignment techniques. Major investors include Google, Spark Capital, and Salesforce Ventures.

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops large language models, including the GPT series, and consumer-facing products such as ChatGPT. Founded in 2015 as a nonprofit research lab, the organization transitioned to a capped-profit structure in 2019 to attract the capital needed for large-scale AI development. The company offers API access to its models for enterprise and developer use, alongside image generation through DALL-E and code-assistance tools. Headquartered in San Francisco, OpenAI has become one of the most prominent players in the generative AI space, backed by a multibillion-dollar investments from Microsoft, Amazon, NVIDIA, SoftBank and many more.

Oracle provides enterprise applications and infrastructure offerings through a variety of flexible IT deployment models, including on-premises, cloud-based, and hybrid. Founded in 1977, Oracle pioneered the first commercial SQL-based relational database management system, which is commonly used by the world’s largest companies for high-volume online transaction processing workloads. Besides databases, Oracle also sells enterprise resource planning platforms and cloud infrastructure that play an increasingly important role in large language model training and inferencing.

Databricks is a San Francisco-headquartered cloud platform unifying data engineering, analytics, and AI on a lakehouse architecture. Founded in 2013, it supports Delta Lake for reliable data lakes, MLflow for machine learning lifecycle management, and Unity Catalog for governance across workspaces. The platform powers ETL pipelines, serverless SQL warehouses, and generative AI model deployment for enterprises worldwide, including integrations with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Founded in 2012, Snowflake is a fully managed platform that consolidates data hosted on different public clouds for centralized analytics and governance. Snowflake’s cloud-native architecture allows users to independently scale the compute and storage layers, providing customers with optimized performance at lower costs. The company’s data lake and data warehouse products support a variety of use cases, including business analytics, data engineering, and artificial intelligence. Snowflake is widely used by Fortune 2000 companies in financial services, media, and retail sectors.

Cloudflare is a software company based in San Francisco, California, that offers security and web performance offerings by utilizing a distributed, serverless content delivery network, or CDN. The firm’s edge computing platform, Workers, leverages this network by providing clients the ability to deploy and execute code without maintaining servers.

Strategy Inc is a bitcoin treasury company and a provider of business intelligence services. It is designed to provide investors varying degrees of economic exposure to Bitcoin by offering a range of securities, including equity and fixed-income instruments. The company also provides industry AI-powered enterprise analytics software. It has one reportable operating segment: the Software Business, which is engaged in the design, development, marketing, and sales of the company's enterprise analytics software platform through cloud subscriptions and licensing arrangements and related services (i.e., product support, consulting, and education). Geographically, the company operates in EMEA, U.S. and Other Regions, of which maximum revenue is derived from U.S..

Atlassian produces software that helps teams work together more efficiently and effectively. The company provides project planning and management software, collaboration tools, and IT help desk solutions. The company operates in four segments: subscriptions (term licenses and cloud agreements), maintenance (annual maintenance contracts that provide support and periodic updates and are generally attached to perpetual license sales), perpetual license (upfront sale for indefinite usage of the software), and other (training, strategic consulting, and revenue from the Atlassian Marketplace app store). Atlassian was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Sydney.

VAST Data is a New York-headquartered software-defined storage provider powering AI workloads with its exabyte-scale platform across flash, HDD, and cloud tiers. Launched in 2019, it unifies block, file, and object protocols with hardware-agnostic architecture, serving media conglomerates and semiconductor firms. The platform integrates with NVIDIA DGX systems for petabyte-scale datasets in genomics and autonomous vehicle training, achieving sub-millisecond latencies.

Scale AI is a San Francisco-headquartered data platform supplying high-quality training and validation datasets for AI models in computer vision, NLP, and sensor fusion. The company's APIs enable annotation of LiDAR, images, video, and text for autonomous vehicles, drones, and robotics. Clients including General Motors, OpenAI, Meta, and U.S. Department of Defense rely on Scale AI's workforce and automation to label petabytes of data annually.

Nutanix Inc is engaged in cloud software, offering organizations a single platform for running applications and managing data anywhere. Its Nutanix Cloud Platform is designed to enable organizations to build a hybrid multicloud infrastructure, providing a consistent cloud operating model with a single platform for running applications and managing data in core data centers, at the edge, and in public clouds, all while supporting a variety of hypervisors and container platforms. The company operates a single operating and reportable segment based on a subscription business model. It conducts business in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and other Americas, with key revenue generated from the United States.

Dynatrace is a software-as-a-service company that enables customers to monitor and analyze their information technology infrastructure, from servers to applications and Python scripts. Dynatrace’s unified platform can ingest and analyze large amounts of machine-generated data in real time, allowing clients to optimize their business for service-level objectives and ensure uptime.