RootData Secured $1.25 Million Seed Funding Round to Build a More Interactive Web3 Asset Data Layer

On April 5th, RootData, a leading Web3 asset data platform, announced the completion of a $1.25 million seed funding round. The round was led by NLVC, with participation from Boyaa Interactive (00434.hk), Bonfire Union Ventures (a fund under Mask Network), Sending Labs, Skyland Ventures, GoPlus, Basics Capital, Rebase D. Ventures, UniSat, SeeDAO, and individual investors including Gavin, founder of Orbiter Finance, Shawn Shi, co-founder of Alchemy Pay, and Jackson, co-founder of 0xScope. The funding will primarily be used for product development and market expansion.

Launched in early 2022, RootData’s mission is to simplify Web3 investments by creating a structured and visualized system of on-chain and off-chain Web3 data. Starting with investment and financing data, RootData has subsequently developed a suite of features including a project library, an institution library, a personality library, a tag atlas, and an ecosystem atlas, aiding users in efficiently searching for project information. Based on hundreds of thousands of user search data, RootData’s recently launched hot list module has already become a market indicator.

To manage the vast and complex data, RootData has developed an intelligent data processing system for data collection and cleaning over nearly a year. By combining process-oriented manual information processing and entry mechanisms, RootData has established the most credible off-chain data system in the Web3 industry, with data being actively used by prominent media such as The Wall Street Journal, Coindesk, Cointelegraph,Decrypt, and hundreds of industry KOLs.

Currently, RootData is increasingly focusing on on-chain data, allowing users to view real-time holdings, as well as large transfer dynamics of these on-chain entities, on the homepages of projects, institutions, and individuals. Thanks to the rich off-chain information, the on-chain data on RootData generally possesses higher readability and contextual information, thus enhancing user reading efficiency.

RootData has also encapsulated its rich and accurate data into APIs to provide services externally. Any third-party partner pages can integrate RootData data, such as project investors, financing amounts, detailed introductions, social media links, etc., avoiding the cumbersome process and manpower investment of maintaining large amounts of project data while significantly improving user experience. Currently, the number of RootData API customers has exceeded 30, covering various scenarios including task platforms, media, wallets, AI robots, etc.

Moving forward, RootData will further focus on the organic integration of on-chain and off-chain data, continuously iterate product functions and experiences, and explore diversified monetization scenarios, such as primary and secondary market transactions, membership models, etc. 

Tony, a partner at NLVC, expressed that the RootData team has impressive data aesthetic capabilities and strong execution power. The spontaneous word-of-mouth virality from many users is remarkable, and there’s good reason to believe that RootData will become an important entry point for many into the Web3 industry.

Suji, founder of Mask Network, mentioned that RootData has become an essential product for his daily work. As a seasoned user, he can see that the RootData team has strong product evolution capability, believing that RootData will eventually become a new gateway to Web3 assets.

David, founder of Boyaa Interactive (00434.hk), stated that RootData’s product boasts an excellent data structure and smooth user interaction experience, which helps enhance investment decision efficiency and capture investment signals.

“This funding round represents investors and the market’s full recognition of RootData’s achievements over the past year. We will continue to commit to providing users with a more interactive product experience, becoming a trusted data layer in the Web3 field,” said Pan, co-founder of RootData.

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