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Protocol Labs
Venture-backed company · Stage unknownprotocol.ai
As of · the latest observation of this company; each round carries its own date
Form D industry: Other
As of · the latest observation of this company; each round carries its own date
What matters now
- $200Ksold on Form D
Filed a Form D on 28 Jul 2026: $200K sold on Form D. A Form D is an offering filing; it names no investors, stage or valuation.
A company that just raised has fresh capital, a new board and new vendors to choose.
- 3 investorsnamed
3 investors on record.
The investors already on the cap table shape who leads the next round.
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Facts
Financing history
1 round
- Jul 28, 2026Form D equity offering · $200,000 (form d sold) · 1 investorFact Form D · “Protocol Labs LLC filed Form D: $200,000 sold of $200,000, Other”
Investors on record
3 edges
- Y Combinator portfolio listing Fact ycombinator.com
- CNK Equity Partners I, LLC portfolio listing Fact a16zcrypto.com
- Union Square Ventures portfolio listing Fact usv.com
Ownership and outcomes
How these are wordedA company a buyout or growth firm lists on its own site is “listed in the portfolio of”, never “acquired by”. A date prints only when a deal record gives one; otherwise the row says when DFX first saw it.none on record
Outcome stated by investors
Listed on 3 firm portfolio pages; none states an outcome (acquired, public, exited or active). DFX does not assume the company is active.
Evidence: 3 listingseach firm's own card, as read
- Status not stated on Y Combinator · the firm's card prints no outcome · read Oct 1, 2026 ycombinator.com“Protocol Labs”
- Status not stated on CNK Equity Partners I, LLC · the firm's card prints no outcome · read Sep 30, 2026 a16zcrypto.com“Protocol Labs”
- Status not stated on Union Square Ventures · the firm's card prints no outcome · read Sep 16, 2026 usv.com“Protocol Labs”
No later owner or exit on record: no private equity sponsor position and no acquisition, listing or IPO report names this company.
Credit relationships
How a loan is matchedA BDC reports its loans by borrower name. A position shows here only when the match passed a precision gate (a hand-labelled sample was 29 of 30 correct); the tier and confidence are printed on each row. Amounts are the lender’s reported position, never a round.none on record
No lender position matched to this company.
People
1 officer, 0 directors
- Maxwell Taylor Mayes Executive Officer/Director/Promoter sec.gov
Timeline
1 event
- Sep 4, 2026Protocol Labs LLC filed Form D: $200,000 sold of $200,000, OtherForm D filed Fact Form D
Evidence
21 observations
Every observation on this company
- Entity type: Limited Liability Company Sep 4, 2026 Fact Form D
- Form D industry group: Other Sep 4, 2026 Fact Form D
- Amendment: false Sep 4, 2026 Fact Form D
- Revenue range (Form D): Decline to Disclose Sep 4, 2026 Fact Form D
- Incorporated: withinFiveYears Sep 4, 2026 Fact Form D
- Jurisdiction: Wyoming Sep 4, 2026 Fact Form D
- Amount sold (Form D): $200,000 Sep 4, 2026 Fact Form D
- Offering amount (Form D): $200,000 Sep 4, 2026 Fact Form D
- Exemptions: 06b Sep 4, 2026 Fact Form D
- First sale: 2026-07-28 Sep 4, 2026 Fact Form D
- Investors (Form D): 1 Sep 4, 2026 Fact Form D
- Minimum investment (Form D): 50,000 Sep 4, 2026 Fact Form D
- Securities offered: equity Sep 4, 2026 Fact Form D
- Office address: Sep 4, 2026 Fact Form D
- Listed on portfolio page: Y Combinator Oct 1, 2026 Fact Firm website
- Listed on portfolio page: CNK Equity Partners I, LLC Sep 30, 2026 Fact Firm website
- Listed on portfolio page: Union Square Ventures Sep 16, 2026 Fact Firm website
- Listed on portfolio page: CNK Equity Partners I, LLC Sep 16, 2026 Fact Firm website
- Listed on portfolio page: CNK Equity Partners I, LLC Sep 13, 2026 Fact Firm website
- Website status: redirected:pl.xyz Sep 27, 2026 Fact Company website
- Year of incorporation: 2026 Sep 4, 2026 Fact Form D
Relationships across DFX
on 1 other DFX graph
Across the graphs
Protocol Labs is the same institution as 1 record in Private Equity.
Private Equity1
The joined record opens with the product, beside every other relationship on this page.
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Record history
1 identity change, 2 dated events on the change ledger, latest event first
- Event retracted2026-10-01
- Portfolio entry removed2026-10-01source on record
- Form D filed2026-09-04source on record
The ledger records every merge, rename and reclassification this record went through and the dated filings observed on it, so the identity on this page can be traced to the records it was built from. The ledger's own sentences name other records, so they show with the names.