DoubleZero Foundation, a startup building a “new internet” to improve blockchain performance, raised $28 million at a $400 million valuation, according to three people familiar with the matter, and is now searching for “strategic partners” to invest more at $600 million.
Dragonfly and Multicoin Capital lead the initial funding round, two of the people said. The subsequent strategic round hasn’t yet closed, said one insider. Venture capital firms have been jockeying hard for whatever allocation they could get, another said.
DoubleZero declined to comment.
Nabbing such a lofty valuation in an early round is uncommon but not unheard of for crypto companies pitching transformative systems. For DoubleZero’s part, its vision is to amass a global network of private fiber optic cables, and then harness them so that blockchains can transmit their data more efficiently than possible on the public internet.
Its motto – “Increase bandwidth, Reduce Latency” or IBRL – proliferat
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