CoinLab is a Bitcoin infrastructure company and business incubator that was co-founded by Peter Vessenes, Mike Koss, and Tihan Seale. CoinLab's Twitter Score is 11 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #87,705 among 486,860 tracked accounts.
CoinLab was backed by Draper Associates alongside individual investors including Geoff Entress, Jack Jolley, Roger Ver, and the Bitcoin Opportunity Fund. Per Forbes, the funding round, which closed in April 2012 at $500,000, was characterized as the first official venture-capital raise involving a direct investment in a Bitcoin company. CoinLab also registered with FinCEN as a Money Services Business in connection with planned North American Bitcoin-exchange operations.
CoinLab previously incubated Alydian as its first announced startup, though Alydian subsequently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. CoinLab also developed Oden, a patented technology for analyzing and deanonymizing patterns in Bitcoin wallets and transactions. In a separate legal dispute, a judge ordered CoinLab to transfer $2.4 million in bitcoin to Bitvestment Partners over a breach-of-contract claim.
CoinLab was formerly affiliated with Mt. Gox, and in May 2013 filed a $75 million lawsuit against the exchange alleging breach of contract. In January 2021, CoinLab announced an agreement with the Mt. Gox bankruptcy trustee and an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group regarding early-payment offers for creditors. CoinLab has been mentioned by 20 accounts a total of 38 times, and has published 328 posts on the platform.
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The accounts that follow CoinLab include 33 founders, 8 angel investors, 13 influencers and 1 VCs, among them Erik Voorhees, Fred Ehrsam, Cameron Winklevoss, Matthew Graham, Circle and Jeff Garzik.