Oryon
Portfolio indexActive · Series B · 2019
ActiveCrypto infrastructure

Alchemy

CategoryDevtools · Infra
HeadquartersSan Francisco
FoundersNikil Viswanathan, Joe Lau
— Overview

Alchemy is the leading blockchain developer platform, providing node infrastructure, indexing APIs, wallet-as-a-service, and rollup deployment to over 200,000 developers globally. The company sits underneath most major consumer and DeFi products as unseen infrastructure.

The rollups-as-a-service business (launched 2024) has become one of the fastest-growing product lines, with major consumer brands and gaming studios deploying custom L2s in weeks rather than months.

Alchemy's positioning as neutral, high-uptime infrastructure has proven durable — even in periods when protocol competition is intense, the underlying developer tools continue to gain share.

— By the numbers
200K+
Developers
8B+
Requests/day
30+
Chains supported
2017
Founded
— Investment
Round
Series B 2019
Our role
Participant
Co-investors
Lightspeed · Coatue · Andreessen Horowitz
— Our thesis

The AWS of the crypto developer stack. We supported the Series B ahead of the developer platform scaling.

— Team
NV

Nikil Viswanathan

CEO & Co-Founder
JL

Joe Lau

CTO & Co-Founder
RN

Ryan Nichols

President
ZY

Zhuoxun Yin

Head of Rollups
— Timeline
  1. 2017Founded by Nikil Viswanathan and Joe Lau
  2. Q2 2019Oryon Series B
  3. 2022$10B valuation, unicorn status
  4. Q3 2024Rollups-as-a-service GA
— Latest update

200K+ developers. Rollups-as-a-service driving new customer growth.

— In the press

Alchemy is the invisible infrastructure most of crypto runs on.

TechCrunch, 2022