Cosmology, the tech suite that enables developers to build Web3 apps in the Cosmos ecosystem, has closed its $5M seed round, co-led by Galileo and Lemniscap with participation from Dispersion, Hashkey, Tuesday Capital, the Osmosis Foundation, Chorus One, Informal Systems, and angels including Kevin Lin, Zaki Manian, Leland Lee, and Ethan Beard.
As an official part of the Interchain Stack, Cosmology empowers “over 2,000 developers to build applications like dYdX, Osmosis, and Celestia.”
This funding allows Cosmology to support “the growth of the interchain, and provide tools that make app development accessible without requiring deep technical blockchain knowledge.”
Dan Lynch, Founder of Cosmology, said:
“Having spent nearly three decades at the intersection of design and technology, I see the potential of Web3 and the need to lower the barriers to development. Our mission is to empower a broad range of developers, driving innovation and the shift from Web2 to Web3. We achieve this by enabling builders to swiftly turn their ideas into launched applications, focusing on big-picture concepts rather than the low-level technical details of blockchain.”
Cosmology’s tools make the development of Web3 applications simpler “for developers throughout the interchain and have been downloaded over 5 million times.”
They’ve created tools like Telescope, which “generates easy-to-use TypeScript libraries for developers to access the functionality of Cosmos blockchains, and Cosmos Kit, a universal wallet adapter for quickly making apps that easily interact with Cosmos blockchains and wallets.”
Sunny Aggarwal, Founder of Osmosis, said:
“Dan’s work building developer tooling has led to huge growth in the number of applications being built in Cosmos. Cosmology is making app development on the 100+ blockchains in the ecosystem a streamlined, elegant process.”
Initially focused on front-end tools, Cosmology is now “broadening its scope of services to offer a comprehensive full-stack environment for developers.”
The team now includes experts “in key blockchain technologies like Tendermint, Cosmos SDK, and IBC Protocol, enhancing its suite’s capabilities across the board.”
This expansion gives Cosmology extra bandwidth “to support developers from design to deployment, covering everything from user interface design all the way to backend blockchain and smart contract tooling.”
David Feiock, Managing Partner at Galileo, said:
“Cosmology is the bedrock underlying everything being built right now in the Cosmos and Celestia ecosystems. As an integral part of building application-specific blockchains, Cosmology tools like Telescope materially reduce the complexities for developers allowing for much quicker innovation and iteration cycles, which will be an essential component of this next phase of growth in crypto.”
