Terminal 3 builds user identity and data infrastructure for Web3. The company's platform is a user identity and data oracle that combines decentralized data storage with zero-knowledge cryptography to enable privacy-preserving credentials and applications. Its stated mission is to make fully private data freely composable and to support an equitable digital future. Technical work spans zero-knowledge cryptography, decentralized storage, digital identity, privacy-preserving credentials and data oracles, within the Web3, blockchain and data-privacy verticals.
The company was founded by technology leaders from Digg, Google, IBM, Lyft, McKinsey, SCMP, Spotify and Uber. It is backed by a group of global venture investors including Illuminate Financial, CMCC Titan Fund, Progression Fund, IDG Blockchain, Cherubic Ventures, 500 Global, Consensys Mesh, BlackPine, Bixin Ventures, Hard Yaka, AVID3 and Bored Room Ventures.
Terminal 3 describes its working culture as that of a “dream team” of curious, collaborative and committed “Threes”, guided by a People Philosophy that shapes both hiring and day-to-day practice. The firm sets hard goals and emphasises effort and speed in exceeding them, values creativity and curiosity, and treats resilience—no fear of failure, constant learning, and comfort with turbulence and change—as a core attribute. It recruits on a rolling basis through its published job listings.
