Blockchain Startup Arcana Raises Seed Funding Funds will be used for talent acquisition, product development and building a strong developer community
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Bengaluru-based Arcana Network announced on Tuesday to have raised a Seed round from investors Balaji Srinivasan, former CTO of Coinbase, Sandeep Nailwal, and JD Kanani, founders of Polygon (formerly Matic), Kendrick Nguyen, founder and CEO of Republic, and other top angels in the crypto ecosystem.
The $375,000 seed fundraise also saw participation from strategic investors and some of the biggest innovators in the blockchain industry, such as Santiago Santos - general partner at ParaFi Capital, Kenetic Capital, AU21, John Lilic, Siddharth Menon - founder of WazirX, Tamar Menteshashvili from Solana, Aniket Jindal – co-founder of Biconomy, and Arcanum Capital.
"Data privacy and security will be first-class citizens in every app's stack. Privacy and ownership of data will be a necessity for every product and developers need easy-to-use tools to fulfil this. Arcana is built to be privacy-first and developer-friendly," said Mayur Relekar, chief executive officer, Arcana.
The latest round, which was oversubscribed by three-fold, is in lieu of Arcana's soon-to-be-launched XAR tokens. The funding will help Arcana accelerate its product development, acquire talent and create a vibrant developer community.
"Arcana's biggest differentiation is that it is a whole suite of privacy and data management tools that are super easy to set up. Developers can look to delegate their app's storage and access control to Arcana and focus on their core value proposition," shared Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder, Polygon.
Founded by Mayur Relekar (CEO), and co-founders Aravindh Kumar, and Abhishek Chaudhary in 2019, Arcana Network aims to be the most developer-friendly decentralized storage option amongst the other storage platforms such as IPFS, Filecoin, Storj, Sia… and gives developers the capability to build more secure and privacy-preserving applications from the ground up.
"Large parts of the internet will be decentralized and every user will carry their own keys and identity while interacting with apps. With our implementation of the Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) specification, we make it easy, whether it is to login, share data, protect private information, or even trade/exchange data between apps and organizations," added Aravindh Kumar, co-founder, Arcana Network.
Arcana is working with developers across sectors from DeFi, NFT platforms, Social Networks, and Wallets, to traditional web 2.0 products in fintech, healthcare, and enterprise SaaS, to bring privacy and security to their data.
