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Protocol Labs

Protocol Labs is an open-source research, development, and deployment laboratory. Our projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and many more. We aim to make human existence orders of magnitude better through technology. Some of our projects. IPFS makes the web work peer-to-peer. IPFS is a protocol for storing, addressing, and transferring data, designed to replace HTTP in many contexts. IPFS uses content-addressing to uniquely identify and link to information. IPFS is one of the leading protocol

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Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator
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last updated
2026-07-15
16:41 UTC
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #923

Protocol Labs is an open-source research, development, and deployment laboratory. Our projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and many more. We aim to make human existence orders of magnitude better through technology. Some of our projects. IPFS makes the web work peer-to-peer. IPFS is a protocol for storing, addressing, and transferring data, designed to replace HTTP in many contexts. IPFS uses content-addressing to uniquely identify and link to information. IPFS is one of the leading protocol

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Andreessen Horowitz

a16z-investment-list #758
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High Signal interpretation

Protocol Labs is classified as AI infrastructure from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Product facets
IPFSlibp2pFilecoinHTTPpeer-to-peer
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Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Protocol Labs

AI infrastructure · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

SigmaOS

match 46

SigmaOS is a new type of browser designed for founders, researchers, and content creators to make you better and faster at working on the web. You work 7+ hours a day on the web. Buried in a sea of 100+ tabs and 10+ web-apps 🤯, you constantly lose context for why you did what you did, and are always one click away from being distracted. We took apart the browser for you, and rebuilt a new experience from the ground-up, for the FASTEST and most PRODUCTIVE work. ⚡

shared product terms: better, web, design, context; shared product theme: context and memory; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

54Gene

match 41

We are an African genomics research, services and development company addressing the need to include under-represented African genomic data in research which could lead to medical breakthroughs and new healthcare solutions worldwide.

shared product terms: research, development, address, include; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Sendoid

match 35

Sendoid is an on-demand peer to peer transfer system. It makes transferring any size file between two people as simple as clicking a link!

shared extracted concept terms: peer; shared product terms: peer, transferr, link; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Launcher Labs

match 33

Launcher Labs made consumer crypto apps, including Launchcaster (acq by Orange DAO), a leading community for launching and discovering crypto projects; Frameboard, a visual curation app and protocol; Launcher Actions, a smart contract mini-app platform; and Maindrop, a Venmo for NFTs.

shared product terms: labs, lead, project, protocol; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

SymbyAI

match 29

AI-driven peer review and analysis of scientific documents to streamline the research lifecycle.

shared extracted concept terms: peer; shared product terms: peer, research; same category: AI infrastructure

Vocode

match 25

Open source voice AI. Check out our docs for more information: https://docs.vocode.dev

shared product terms: information, http; shared product theme: open source and local first; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator