April 14, - Ethernet Message Push Service (EPNS) announced the closing of a $10.1 million Series A round of funding at an average valuation of $131 million, led by Jump Crypto, with participation from Tiger Global, ParaFi, A.Capital, Sino Global Capital, Polygon Studios, the Harmony Foundation, Wintermute, Zee Prime Capital, Woodstock Ventures, DCX Ventures, Alpha Wave Capital, Zebpay, TRGC and iSeedVC, in addition to Web3 industry leaders such as Andrew Keys of DARMA Capital, David Silverman of Aave Companies, Ajit Tripathi, Mateo a Levy, Kane Warwick, Jordan Momtazi, and Justin Moses of Synthetix. Aniket Jindal of Biconomy, Anton Bukov of 1inch, Sahil Dewan of Harmony, Jerome de Tychey of Cometh and Ethereum France, and Sam of Journal du Coin.
The EPNS team will use the funding to expand the team and grow beyond the ethereum ecosystem to realize the vision of a multi-chain, interoperable decentralized future. The funding will help EPNS move faster to mass adoption and enable multi-chain support (which will first be deployed in the Polygon network).
EPNS is known to be building native Web3 communication services to enable users to communicate with each other on the chain. epns is working with over 80 projects including Uniswap, Decentraland, MakerDAO, Gitcoin, Polygon, ENS, dydx, Bancor, Defiant CoinDesk, Aragon, Notional Finance, mStable, Snapshot, and more.