Blocktorch
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Blocktorch was a Berlin-based Web3 observability platform founded in 2022 by Amine Afia and Gerald Pollak. It gave Web3 engineering teams real-time tracing, logging and monitoring for smart contracts and decentralized applications, letting developers query logs, traces and metrics across a dApp's full stack, set metric- and event-based monitors, and resolve anomalies in minutes. The company raised $4.2 million in seed funding in May 2023, led by IDEO CoLab Ventures with participation from Speedinvest, RockawayX and Alchemy Ventures, and was acquired by thirdweb in June 2024.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Amine Afia and Gerald Pollak founded Blocktorch in Berlin to build an observability platform for Web3 developers, comparable to what Datadog did for cloud development.
- Seed funding
Blocktorch raised $4.2 million in seed funding in May 2023, led by IDEO CoLab Ventures with participation from Speedinvest, RockawayX, Alchemy Ventures, Remote First Ventures, Entrepreneur First and several angels, to grow its engineering and commercial teams and launch version 1 of the product.
- Acquired by thirdweb
Blocktorch was acquired by thirdweb on June 18, 2024.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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