69 Best Decentralized Autonomous Organization Dao Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Decentralized Autonomous Organization Dao Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 112 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $2.8b. The average funding per company in this subset is $40.9m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Celestia logo

Celestia

Celestia is a stripped-down layer-1 blockchain that focuses solely on ordering transactions and making the data for transactions available. The blockchain does not handle smart contracts or perform computations.

4

Funding Rounds

$166.5m

Money raised

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Euler

Euler is a decentralized finance company founded in 2020 by Michael Bentley, Doug Hoyte, and Jack Prior.

3

Funding Rounds

$40.8m

Money raised

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Tendermint

Tendermint is now Ignite. Tendermint was the core contributor to the Cosmos blockchain network.

1

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

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Numerai

Numerai is a hedge fund with stock market trades determined by crowdsourced artificial intelligence models. The best models receive rewards in the form of a cryptographic token called Numeraire (NMR) on the Ethereum blockchain.

3

Funding Rounds

$17.5m

Money raised

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Celo

Celo is an open platform that offers financial tools to mobile phone users.

5

Funding Rounds

$126.5m

Money raised

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CryptoMarket

CryptoMarket is a blockchain company founded in 2016 by Rafael Meruane.

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Parallel Finance

Parallel Finance is a decentralized lending and staking protocol on Polkadot and Ethereum.

3

Funding Rounds

$34.0m

Money raised

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Layer1

Layer1 is a cryptocurrency investment and infrastructure platform.

3

Funding Rounds

$54.2m

Money raised

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Ondo Finance

Ondo Finance is an open, permissionless, decentralized investment bank

2

Funding Rounds

$24.0m

Money raised

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Bitmain

Bitmain is a Beijing-based multinational semiconductor company, founded in 2013, that manufactures products for blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

3

Funding Rounds

$764.7m

Money raised

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ZETA

Zeta Markets is the premier derivatives protocol on Solana.

1

Funding Rounds

$8.5m

Money raised

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Tempus

Tempus is a future yield tokenization and fixed rate protocol founded in 2021 by David Garai.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.0m

Money raised

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Cake DeFi

Cake is an all-in-one decentralized finance (DeFi) platform.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.4m

Money raised

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SynFutures

SynFutures is a decentralized Derivatives Protocol.

3

Funding Rounds

$15.4m

Money raised

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Primitive Finance

Primitive - Crypto derivative products built on the Replicating Market Maker protocol, an oracle-free solution to scalable and efficient on-chain derivatives.

1

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

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FingerprintsDao

Curate and collect artworks that use smart contracts in exceptionally creative ways; bring together artists and builders to produce fingerprints of the blockchain.

1

Funding Rounds

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Currency.com

Regulated crypto exchange. Built the world's first regulated tokenised assets platform. It aims to revolutionise cryptocurrency investment.

1

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

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Ceramic

Ceramic is a public, decentralized, censorship-resistant network for managing mutable information on the open internet without databases or servers

1

Funding Rounds

$30.0m

Money raised

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Lit Protocol

Lit Protocol is decentralized access control designed to bring more utility to the web.

2

Funding Rounds

$15.2m

Money raised

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Superfluid

Superfluid is an asset streaming protocol for DAOs and crypto-native businesses.

1

Funding Rounds

$18.0m

Money raised

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Messari

Messari is a cryptocurrency data and analytics firm. It's mission is to promote transparency and smarter decision-making in the cryptoasset community. Their open-source data library helps researchers, investors, and regulators make sense of the industry.

6

Funding Rounds

$61.0m

Money raised

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Exactly

Exactly is a decentralized, open source and non-custodial credit protocol founded in 2021 by Lucas Lain.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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Anchorage Digital

Anchorage Digital is a global regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated digital asset financial services and infrastructure solutions.

5

Funding Rounds

$487.0m

Money raised

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KurateDAO

KurateDAO is a blockchain-based databased for Web3 applications.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.9m

Money raised

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Teller

Teller is an algorithmic credit risk protocol, built to enable the creation of decentralized lending markets that can offer unsecured loans, without the need for collateral.

2

Funding Rounds

$7.9m

Money raised

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Via Protocol

Advanced Cross-Chain Liquidity Aggregation Protocol and cross-chain NFT sale.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

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Multis

Multis is a company that has created a cryptocurrency bank for companies. It was founded in 2018 and is located in San Francisco, California.

4

Funding Rounds

$16.5m

Money raised

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Taker Protocol

The First DAO-basedLiquidity Protocol forNovelNFT Crypto Assets

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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Coinshift

Coinshift (Formerly MultiSafe) is simplifying crypto treasury management on top of Gnosis safe

2

Funding Rounds

$17.5m

Money raised

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Polemos

Polemos is a global GameFi platform that is a decentralized combination of its own asset lending library, educational hub, and gaming community.

1

Funding Rounds

$14.0m

Money raised

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Blockade Games

Blockade Games specializes in integrating blockchain and alternate reality components into puzzles and games.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

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IPOR Labs

Building the IPOR Protocol #DeFi Interest Rate Benchmark & Interest Rate Derivatives

1

Funding Rounds

$5.6m

Money raised

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BNC

Blockchain Nuggets Community (BNC) is a community based on blockchain education.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.0k

Money raised

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Open Meta DAO

WE ARE CALLED TO BE ARCHITECTS OF THE FUTURE, NOT ITS VICTIMS. R. Buckminster Fuller

1

Funding Rounds

$4.5m

Money raised

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Spruce

SPruce is an ecosystem of open source tools created to enable user-controlled identity.

2

Funding Rounds

$41.5m

Money raised

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Poap

Poap is a proof of attendance protocol enabling people to preserve their memories and collective experiences by minting them as digital collectibles.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

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Nansen

Nansen is a blockchain analytics platform for crypto professionals and investors.

3

Funding Rounds

$88.2m

Money raised

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Beacons

Beacons is the easiest way to build a website that your fans will love - and it’s Free!

2

Funding Rounds

$12.6m

Money raised

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Li.finance

Li.finance is a blockchain technology company based in Berlin.

2

Funding Rounds

$20.5m

Money raised

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Ola Guild Games

A regionally-focused subDAO of the world’s largest decentralized gaming guild, Yield Guild Games

1

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

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JPG

JPG is an on-chain NFT curation protocol, built on Ethereum founded in 2021.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.8m

Money raised

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Copper

Copper is a digital asset infrastructure developed in partnership with pioneering institutions.

7

Funding Rounds

$289.0m

Money raised

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ZEBEDEE

Tool to play all Bitcoin games and use any Bitcoin Lightning apps

2

Funding Rounds

$46.5m

Money raised

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Layer3

Allows users to earn crypto by contributing to a DAO community

1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

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ZKX

ZKX is a permissionless protocol for derivatives built on StarkNet founded in 2021 by Vitaly Yakovlev.

3

Funding Rounds

$7.6m

Money raised

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FlexiDAO

FlexiDAO is a blockchain company founded by Simone Accornero in 2017.

3

Funding Rounds

$13.0m

Money raised

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Nomics™

Polyx Token / PLX price. Real-time & historical PLX data, exchange rates, charts, ATH, & market data priced in USD, JPY, KRW, EUR, etc. Contract: 0x33eef306ebbfa2c610f77533e8c15966be0ec5a1

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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PartyDao

Creating a product that lets people team up, pool their capital together, and take place in NFT auctions as a team

1

Funding Rounds

$16.4m

Money raised

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Origami

Origami is a software development company focused on building DAO frameworks.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.2m

Money raised

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Utopia Labs

Building the infrastructure to scale decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).

3

Funding Rounds

$48.5m

Money raised

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Otterspace

Otterspace is NFT startup which non-transferable badge protocol helps DAOs create better incentive systems, automate permissions and enable non-financialized governance.

2

Funding Rounds

$6.7m

Money raised

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Goals

GOALS is a gameplay-first football game. Free to play, cross-play, multiplayer-focused, and esports ready. Own your assets and trade them freely.

2

Funding Rounds

$39.0m

Money raised

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Tea

Tea Inc. is a Puerto Rico-based corporation that is building the open source toolkit that makes development possible and builds the internet: it’s “brew2 for web3”.

2

Funding Rounds

$16.9m

Money raised

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HaloDAO

HaloDAO is a Singapore-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.5m

Money raised

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Volatility Protocol

Volatility Protocol is a DeFi's source for composable volatility metrics.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

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Ready Player DAO

Ready Player DAO is a DAO for The Players founded by richcabrera.eth.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.2m

Money raised

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DoinGud

DoinGud is an NFT ecosystem empowering creators, collectors, curators, and communities to do good

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

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Buildspace

Buildspace is a New York-based company providing a learning platform designed for crypto developers.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

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Decrypt

Read the latest Bitcoin and Ethereum news from Decrypt. Get the latest on cryptocurrency prices, breaking news, and more about Bitcoin and blockchain. Decrypt is a media platform that focused on stories from culture, technology, business, education, politics, art, and the latest news.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

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Doodles

A community-driven collectibles project featuring art by Burnt Toast.Doodles come in a joyful range of colors,traits and sizes with a collection size of 10,000.Each Doodle allows its owner to vote for experiences and activations paid for by the Doodles Communtit Treasury.

2

Funding Rounds

$54.0m

Money raised

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Molecule

Molecule is a decentralized biotech protocol, building a web3 marketplace for research-related IP.

2

Funding Rounds

$13.0m

Money raised

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BRIBE Protocol

Where DAO token holders get paid to govern.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.0m

Money raised

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Porter Finance

Porter enables creditworthy DAOs to obtain fixed-rate financing using their project tokens as collateral

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

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TON Labs

Comprised of a decentralized team focused on developing the infrastructure and free software for TON OS

1

Funding Rounds

$6.0m

Money raised

Afropolitan logo

Afropolitan

Afropolitan is creating a Digital Nation to enable all Africans to build abundant lives.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.1m

Money raised

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Fairmint

Operating system for Securities tokens (fundraising, compensation, liquidity)

2

Funding Rounds

$7.2m

Money raised

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Squads

Squads is a collaboration infrastructure for web3 native teams.

2

Funding Rounds

$6.5m

Money raised

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Rainbow

Rainbow is an ethereum wallet founded in 2019 by Michael Demarais, Jin Chung and Christian Baroni.

2

Funding Rounds

$20.4m

Money raised

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LiquiFi

“LiquiFi (“Carta for crypto”) helps companies and DAOs automate their token vesting, management, and distribution to employees, investors, partners, and community members.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.3m

Money raised