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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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Polygon 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.

HeadquartersBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Year Founded2017
FoundersAntoni Martin, Anurag Arjun, Bobbin Threadbare, Brendan Farmer, Daniel Lubarov, David Schwartz, Jaynti Kanani, Jordi Baylina, Mihailo Bjelic, Sandeep Nailwal
Funding Amount$451.5M
Startup SizeLarge Team (251-1,000)
Last Funding StatusVenture Round
Top InvestorsAccel, 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.

HeadquartersGeorge Town, Midland, Cayman Islands
Year Founded2013
FoundersLin Han
Funding Amount$74M
Startup SizeMajor Organization (1,001-5,000)
Last Funding StatusSeries A
Top InvestorsGate 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.

HeadquartersMiami, Florida, United States
Year Founded2017
FoundersAlexander Nabutovsky, Auston Bunsen, Dmitry Shklovsky, Manuel Kreutz
Funding Amount$101.9M
Startup SizeMid-Size Team (51-250)
Last Funding StatusSecondary Market
Top InvestorsQED 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.

HeadquartersNew York, New York, United States
Year Founded2019
FoundersJinglan Wang, Karl Floersch, Kevin Ho
Funding Amount$178.5M
Startup SizeLean Team (11-50)
Last Funding StatusUndisclosed
Top InvestorsAndreessen 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.

HeadquartersNew York, New York, United States
Year Founded2022
FoundersEunice Giarta, James Hunsaker, Keone Hon
Funding Amount$244M
Startup SizeLean Team (11-50)
Last Funding StatusVenture Round
Top InvestorsParadigm, 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.

HeadquartersLisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Year Founded2023
FoundersGuy Young
Funding Amount$176.8M
Startup SizeLean Team (11-50)
Last Funding StatusInitial Coin Offering
Top InvestorsM2 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.

HeadquartersCoral Gables, Florida, United States
Year Founded2021
FoundersGreg Solano, Wylie Aronow
Funding Amount$450M
Startup SizeMid-Size Team (51-250)
Last Funding StatusSeed
Top InvestorsCoinbase, 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.

HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2022
FoundersNeel Somani
Funding Amount$65M
Startup SizeLean Team (11-50)
Last Funding StatusSeries A
Top InvestorsAccel, 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.

HeadquartersNew York, New York, United States
Year Founded2017
FoundersSheldon Xia
Funding Amount$10M
Startup SizeLarge Team (251-1,000)
Last Funding StatusSeries B
Top InvestorsAlpha 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.

HeadquartersLondon, England, United Kingdom
Year Founded2018
FoundersAndrew Flatt, Graham Rodford, Matthew Pollard
Funding Amount$45.1M
Startup SizeMid-Size Team (51-250)
Last Funding StatusCorporate Round
Top InvestorsStellar 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.

StartupMain IndustryYear FoundedAmount RaisedLast Funding Round
Fnality International logo Fnality InternationalCrypto2019$323.1MSeries C
The Ether Machine logo The Ether MachineCrypto$654MVenture Round
VALR logo VALRCrypto2018$55MSeries B
Succinct logo SuccinctCrypto2022$55MSeries A
Boba Network logo Boba NetworkCrypto2018$115MPrivate Equity
MegaETH logo MegaETHCrypto2024$30MEquity Crowdfunding
Hemi Labs logo Hemi LabsCrypto2023$30MSeed
Triple-A logo Triple-ACrypto2017$14MSeries A
Berachain logo BerachainCrypto2021$142.3MUndisclosed
Taiko Labs logo Taiko LabsCrypto2022$37MSeries A
Dune Analytics logo Dune AnalyticsAnalytics2018$79.4MSeries B
Roll logo RollMedia2017$12.7MSeries A
Aurora logo AuroraCrypto2021$12MSeries A
RISE Chain logo RISE ChainCrypto$7.2MSeed
Bitkub Capital Group Holdings logo Bitkub Capital Group HoldingsCrypto2018$28.7MVenture Round
prePO logo prePOCrypto2021$3.2MSeed
Flint logo FlintMedia2021$5.1MVenture Round
Layer logo LayerInfrastructure2023$6MSeed
Virtue Poker logo Virtue PokerCrypto2016$5MVenture Round
Crypton Studio logo Crypton StudioCrypto2016€1.3MSeed

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