Company: Pinata
Co-Founders: Kyle Tut (CEO) & Matt Ober (CTO)
Website: https://pinata.cloud/
About Pinata
While running our own blockchain consulting firm prior to Pinata, we kept encountering the same problem: how to store data on-chain and stay true to our Web3 roots without paying a high price or relying on traditional centralized cloud providers. While many storage providers were already using IPFS, its speed and reliability remained a major obstacle. This is what inspired us to build Pinata, an effective solution to solve decentralized data storage issues. Pinata has been offering Web3 builders and enterprises an easy, scalable, and reliable way to store their files since 2018. Having supported over 600,000 developers and industry leaders like OpenSea and Pump.fun, Pinata has evolved into the interoperable data layer for all of crypto, including NFTs, AI, memecoins, gaming, etc. With Pinata, developers and enterprises have access to verifiable and reliable data while enjoying the flexibility to edit or alter the data accordingly, unlike other crypto storage solutions.
What Pinata is building now will matter even more in our future. We envision that all transactions will occur on-chain and all data will be cryptographically verifiable. Having verifiable data ensures that the underlying data of the entire crypto ecosystem can be trusted, powering more innovative real-world use cases such as DeFi and tokenization. With emerging technologies like AI, the demand for verifiable and secure data will become increasingly urgent. What Pinata is building today will largely contribute to combating misinformation and malicious activities in the future, laying the groundwork to protect people’s privacy and personal data.
