Irys

Irys provides enterprise decentralized storage solutions, operating a blockchain-based data storage platform that enables permanent, verifiable data storage at scale. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom, Irys has raised approximately $20M in Series A funding from investors including Lemniscap, Framework Ventures, Hypersphere Ventures, Primitive Ventures, Arweave, OpenSea, Race Capital, and CoinFund. The company employs 23 people and combines decentralized storage with on-chain data availability, enabling developers to build applications that require permanent data storage with cryptographic proofs of authenticity. Irys serves the Web3 ecosystem by providing infrastructure for NFT metadata storage, decentralized social media, and data-intensive blockchain applications that need reliable, censorship-resistant data persistence without relying on centralized cloud providers.