Hedera

Richardson, TX, USA
Founded 2017

Hedera is a public distributed ledger platform that uses the hashgraph consensus mechanism to enable cryptocurrency transactions, smart contracts, tokenization, and decentralized applications. The company provides enterprise-grade performance, security, and governance through its unique hashgraph consensus algorithm with open source platform components.

Last Updated: August 14, 2025

Current Valuation

No valuation data available

Funding Summary

No funding data available.

Key People

Leemon Baird
Co-founder and Chief ScientistFounder
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Charles Adkins
CO of Hedera Foundation
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Core OSS Projects

Various Hedera projects

License: Apache 2.0

Hiero is the Open Source Distributed Ledger Technology of the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust. Hiero is an open source, vendor-neutral distributed ledger technology. Hiero is used to build the Hedera public ledger.

License: Apache 2.0

Business Information

Industries

Financial Services

Technologies

Blockchain
Distributed Ledger
EVM Compatible
Hashgraph
Smart Contracts
Cryptocurrency

Sectors

Enterprise

Licenses

Apache-2.0

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