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Notebook Labs raises $3.3M

Notebook Labs, providers of a zero-knowledge identity infrastructure layer for Web3 protocols, has raised a $3.3 million seed round.

The investment was led by Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Abstract Ventures, Pioneer Fund, and NFX.

Very Serious Ventures partner Chase Adams, Algofi co-founder Owen Colegrove, and Landeed founder and CEO Sanjay Mandava, also participated in the investments.

Notebook Labs was created during TreeHacks, a hackathon organized by Stanford University.

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