Anchorage
| ISIN | 🆔 |
|---|---|
| Industry | Financial Services |
| Founded 📆 | October 2017 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , United states, California, San Francisco |
Area served 🗺️ | |
| Revenue🤑 | Series B funding |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | https://anchorage.com/ |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Anchorage is a digital asset custodian for institutional investors, based in San Francisco, California. Anchorage uses modern security engineering to help institutional investors safeguard their investments.[1][2]The company was founded in 2017 by Diogo Monica and Nathan McCauley.
Overview[edit]
Anchorage serves institutional investors, including such clients as Blockchain Capital, Polychain, Paradigm, and a16z crypto. Anchorage is a Qualified Custodian, having established a subsidiary called Anchorage Trust Company based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Anchorage Trust Company is a South Dakota state-chartered trust company with fiduciary powers.
Anchorage is a Founding Member of the Libra Association. Libra is a not-yet-launched digital currency, and other Founding Members of the Libra Association include Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, PayPal, eBay, Lyft, Uber, Spotify, and Facebook. The core responsibility of Anchorage being a Founding Member of the Libra Association is to maintain a validator node and assist in the governance and operations of Libra.[3][4][5]
Technology[edit]
Anchorage offers a “smart storage” solution, as an alternative to solutions that utilize hot wallets and cold storage. Anchorage’s solution utilizes multiple layers of biometric authentication, as well as HSMs (hardware security modules) modified with custom logic.
This solution enables clients to use their asset-holding private keys for transactions, audits, staking, voting, and other online operations without being removed from safe storage.[3][4][6][7][8][9][5][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
Funding[edit]
Anchorage raised $17M in a Series A round in Jan 23, 2019. This firm’s investors include Blockchain Capital, Visa, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, #Angels, SciFi VC, Polychain, and SV Angel. In July 2019, Anchorage raised $40M in a Series B funding round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Visa. To date, the total funding is $57M over 2 rounds.[1][2][19][20][21][22][23]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "crunchbase.com".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Anchorage".
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Boorstin, Julia (2019-06-18). "Facebook launches a new cryptocurrency called Libra". CNBC. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Anchorage (2019-06-18). "Anchorage Becomes Founding Member of the Libra Association". Medium. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Paris, Martine (2019-07-20). "Anchorage Chose South Dakota for Its Crypto Custody – Here's Why". CoinDesk. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ Pollock, Darryn. "Is Facebook Forming A Crypto Mafia as Libra Foundation Members Boost Each Other's Businesses?". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ "Crypto custodian Anchorage says it is offering "end-to-end" insurance coverage for crypto assets". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ "Crypto custodian Anchorage says it is offering "end-to-end" insurance coverage for crypto assets". The Block. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ Anchorage (2019-06-06). "Sealing the Gaps in Crypto Custody Insurance". Medium. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ "Anchorage subsidiary receives charter to set up 'smart' crypto custody shop in South Dakota". The Block. 2019-07-16. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ Anchorage (2019-07-16). "Anchorage: A Qualified Custodian That's Safer Than Cold Storage". Medium. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ Pollock, Darryn. "Is Facebook Forming A Crypto Mafia as Libra Foundation Members Boost Each Other's Businesses?". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ "Visa funds $40M for no-password crypto vault Anchorage". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ "Visa Pours Millions into Cryptocurrency Startup Anchorage". Fortune. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ Anchorage (2019-07-10). "Anchorage Raises $40 Million Series B Led by Blockchain Capital, Visa". Medium. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ "Anchorage co-founder: We've been involved with Facebook's Libra project since day one". Fox Business. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ Boorstin, Julia (2019-06-18). "Facebook launches a new cryptocurrency called Libra". CNBC. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ Anchorage (2019-06-18). "Anchorage Becomes Founding Member of the Libra Association". Medium. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ FinSMEs (2019-07-11). "Anchorage Raises $40M in Series B Funding". FinSMEs. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ Hurst, Samantha (2019-07-12). "Cryptocurrency Holdings Startup Anchorage Secures $40 Million Through Series B Funding Round Led By Blockchain Capital & Visa". Crowdfund Insider. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ "Anchorage emerges with $17M from a16z for 'omnimetric' crypto security". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ "Visa, Blockchain Capital back $40 million round for crypto custodian Anchorage". The Block. 2019-07-10. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ Palmer, Daniel (2019-07-10). "Visa, Blockchain Capital, a16z Back $40 Million Series B Round for Crypto Custodian Anchorage". CoinDesk. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
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