Cryptocurrency startup Rome announced that it has raised $9 million in funding from Hack VC, Polygon Ventures, HashKey, Portal Ventures, Bankless Ventures, Robot VC, LBank, Anagram, TRGC, Perridon Ventures, and prominent angel investors including Anatoly Yakovenko, Nick White, Santiago Santos, Comfy Capital, Austin Federa, Jason Yanowitz. Rome was founded by Anil Kumar and Sattvik Kansal to establish Solana as a foundational network for sharing sequencers and data availability (DA).