# Diva (BVI)

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/diva-bvi

- Industry: Financial Services
- Headquarters: Tortola, British Virgin Islands
- Website: www.divalabs.org
- Total disclosed funding: $3.5M
- Latest round: Seed (Jan 17, 2023)
- Investors on record: 9

## About

Based in the British Virgin Islands, and founded in 2022, Diva (BVI) Ltd. operates as a decentralized staking protocol that connects stakers and operators and provides access to control block production and transaction censorship. In January 2023, Diva (BVI) Ltd. raised USD 3.5 million in seed funding led by A&T Capital, with participation from Alphemy Capital, Bankless, DCV Capital, Gnosis, MetaWeb Ventures, OKX Ventures, Staked.vc, and Very Early Ventures. As of January 2023, the company is led by its CEO Pablo Villalba.

Diva (BVI) Ltd. offers an Ethereum Liquid Staking protocol with liquid staking, non-custodial, immutable, non-upgradable contracts, distributed Validation, decentralization, resiliency, and progressive ossification. IDiva staking, Diva operators, Diva partnerships, and Diva community are all parts of its cooperative ecosystem. It assists operators in running a Distributed Validation (Diva) client to carry out staking obligations and earn additional rewards, as well as helping stakers obtain a Liquid Staking Derivative (divETH) that automatically accrues value with Ethereum's staking rewards without the need to run any infrastructure.

The company plans to use the seed funding to provide a cooperative decentralizing staking pool.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, Jan 17, 2023, $3.5M — Gnosis, Alphemy Capital, A&T Capital, MetaWeb Ventures, DCV Capital, OKX Ventures, Staked Venture Capital, Very Early Ventures, Bankless Ventures

## Investors

- Gnosis (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/gnosis) — Seed
- Alphemy Capital — Seed
- A&T Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/a-t-capital) — Seed
- MetaWeb Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/metaweb-ventures) — Seed
- DCV Capital — Seed
- OKX Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/okx-ventures) — Seed
- Staked Venture Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/staked-venture-capital) — Seed
- Very Early Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/very-early-ventures) — Seed
- Bankless Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/bankless-ventures) — Seed