StarkWare Industries Ltd is a zero-knowledge proof company that builds blockchain scaling and privacy technology for Ethereum, including StarkEx, Cairo, and Starknet. StarkWare's Twitter Score is 337 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #837 (top 0.5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
StarkWare was co-founded by Eli Ben-Sasson, Michael Riabzev, Alessandro Chiesa, and Uri Kolodny, who serves as CEO. The company develops technology for blockchain scalability and privacy based on zero-knowledge proofs, and is affiliated with the Starknet Foundation, which stewards growth and development of the Starknet ecosystem. Starknet itself operates as a permissionless decentralized Validity-Rollup, also known as a ZK-Rollup, functioning as a Layer 2 network over Ethereum.
StarkWare has raised substantial funding across multiple rounds. A $30 million Series A was announced in October 2018, led by Paradigm with participation from Coinbase, Sequoia Capital, and Intel Capital, bringing total funding at that time to $36 million. A $50 million Series C led by Sequoia Capital followed in November 2021 at a $2 billion valuation, at which point the company's technology was in use by dYdX, Sorare, and Immutable X. In May 2022, StarkWare raised $100 million in a Series D round, reaching a valuation of $8 billion. Additional backers have included Pantera Capital, Founders Fund, Ethereum Foundation, Greenoaks Capital, Coatue Management, and formerly Alameda Research.
In April 2019, the Technion Israel Institute of Technology brought a civil case alleging that co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson violated Technion intellectual property regulations in connection with setting up StarkWare; Ben-Sasson's legal representation denied the claims.
StarkWare's account has published 12,565 posts and has 233,791 followers as of July 2026. StarkWare has been mentioned by 1,141 accounts a total of 3,741 times.
StarkWare's portfolio includes Gitcoin, Ready, Snapshot, ETHIndia, Figment, XMTP, LimeChain - Blockchain & Web3 Solutions and Arcus.
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