The Ethereum blockchain serves as a critical base for a group of new companies. These businesses are creating everything from financial products to core web infrastructure.
Polygon, a platform for scaling Ethereum, has raised $451.5M in funding. Similarly, NFT creator Yuga Labs has attracted $450M to develop its digital collectibles.
Below is our list of 30 Ethereum startups worth keeping an eye on.
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Get the Sheet for $50Polygon develops a platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development, enabling developers to build user-friendly decentralized applications. Their suite of solutions provides higher throughput and lower transaction costs, addressing some of Ethereum's core scalability challenges.
| Headquarters | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India |
| Year Founded | 2017 |
| Founders | Antoni Martin, Anurag Arjun, Bobbin Threadbare, Brendan Farmer, Daniel Lubarov, David Schwartz, Jaynti Kanani, Jordi Baylina, Mihailo Bjelic, Sandeep Nailwal |
| Funding Amount | $451.5M |
| Startup Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Venture Round |
| Top Investors | Accel, Peak XV Partners, Elevation Capital, Union Square Ventures, Tiger Global Management |
Gate operates a top-tier cryptocurrency exchange for trading a wide variety of digital assets. The platform consistently ranks among the top exchanges globally, recognized for its high trading volume and deep liquidity.
| Headquarters | George Town, Midland, Cayman Islands |
| Year Founded | 2013 |
| Founders | Lin Han |
| Funding Amount | $74M |
| Startup Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series A |
| Top Investors | Gate Ventures, 5 BLOCKS CAPITAL |
QuickNode builds a comprehensive blockchain platform for developers to create and scale Web3 applications. The platform features reliable APIs and tools, helping developers build on over two dozen different blockchains.
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida, United States |
| Year Founded | 2017 |
| Founders | Alexander Nabutovsky, Auston Bunsen, Dmitry Shklovsky, Manuel Kreutz |
| Funding Amount | $101.9M |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Secondary Market |
| Top Investors | QED Investors, Tribe Capital, Y Combinator, Seven Seven Six, Tiger Global Management |
Optimism provides a low-cost and lightning-fast Layer 2 blockchain built to help scale the Ethereum network. Their decentralized infrastructure platform allows developers to build applications with instant transactions and scalable smart contracts.
| Headquarters | New York, New York, United States |
| Year Founded | 2019 |
| Founders | Jinglan Wang, Karl Floersch, Kevin Ho |
| Funding Amount | $178.5M |
| Startup Size | Lean Team (11-50) |
| Last Funding Status | Undisclosed |
| Top Investors | Andreessen Horowitz, Paradigm, BlockBase Ventures, Nascent, IDEO CoLab Ventures |
Monad develops a high-performance blockchain protocol that streamlines Ethereum throughput. Their approach uses parallel transaction processing to significantly boost the network's capacity and speed.
| Headquarters | New York, New York, United States |
| Year Founded | 2022 |
| Founders | Eunice Giarta, James Hunsaker, Keone Hon |
| Funding Amount | $244M |
| Startup Size | Lean Team (11-50) |
| Last Funding Status | Venture Round |
| Top Investors | Paradigm, Dragonfly, Coinbase Ventures, Amber Group, Electric Capital |
Ethena builds a synthetic dollar protocol on Ethereum that provides a crypto-native solution for finance. Their platform offers a stable, censorship-resistant asset that is independent of the traditional banking system.
| Headquarters | Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal |
| Year Founded | 2023 |
| Founders | Guy Young |
| Funding Amount | $176.8M |
| Startup Size | Lean Team (11-50) |
| Last Funding Status | Initial Coin Offering |
| Top Investors | M2 Capital, Gemini, Franklin Templeton, YZi Labs, Pantera Capital |
Yuga Labs creates NFTs and digital collectibles, building entire ecosystems on the blockchain. The company is the force behind some of the world's most recognized NFT projects, including the Bored Ape Yacht Club.
| Headquarters | Coral Gables, Florida, United States |
| Year Founded | 2021 |
| Founders | Greg Solano, Wylie Aronow |
| Funding Amount | $450M |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Seed |
| Top Investors | Coinbase, MoonPay, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Samsung NEXT, Seven Seven Six |
Eclipse provides a platform for developers to launch custom, high-performance blockchains secured by Ethereum. By using the Solana Virtual Machine for execution, their solution allows decentralized applications to achieve significant scaling without leaving the Ethereum ecosystem.
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2022 |
| Founders | Neel Somani |
| Funding Amount | $65M |
| Startup Size | Lean Team (11-50) |
| Last Funding Status | Series A |
| Top Investors | Accel, Tribe Capital, Apollo, Hack VC, GSR |
BitMart runs a premier digital asset trading platform where users can buy and sell over 1,000 different cryptocurrencies. The exchange is recognized for its low trading fees and a broad suite of products that includes spot, futures, and an NFT marketplace.
| Headquarters | New York, New York, United States |
| Year Founded | 2017 |
| Founders | Sheldon Xia |
| Funding Amount | $10M |
| Startup Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series B |
| Top Investors | Alpha Square Group, Fenbushi Capital, Chaos Ventures, Kube VC, Alexander Capital Ventures |
Archax has built a global, regulated platform for digital assets, combining an exchange, brokerage, and custodian services. This gives institutional and professional investors a single, compliant venue to trade and store everything from digital securities to cryptocurrencies.
| Headquarters | London, England, United Kingdom |
| Year Founded | 2018 |
| Founders | Andrew Flatt, Graham Rodford, Matthew Pollard |
| Funding Amount | $45.1M |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Corporate Round |
| Top Investors | Stellar Development Foundation, CoinFund, 7percent Ventures, Aberdeen, Blockchain Coinvestorsqq |
20 Additional Ethereum Startups Worth Following
Our top 10 picks are just a small sample of the projects being built on Ethereum. The companies that follow have raised over $1.6 billion together to grow their ideas. You'll see a mix of new and older companies, working in everything from media to infrastructure. Here’s a look at the other startups shaping the Ethereum space.