69 Best Decentralized Finance Defi Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Decentralized Finance Defi Startups

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There are 4,758 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $21.4b. The average funding per company in this subset is $310.6m.

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$32.1m

Money raised

SupraOracles is a company developing a blockchain network

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Funding Rounds

$10.1m

Money raised

Cere Network is a decentralized data cloud platform built on Polkadot.

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$910.0m

Money raised

An end-to-end blockchain and NFT solution for video games.

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CEX.IO is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that supports a range of cryptocurrencies and has different deposit and withdrawal methods that its traders can utilize for buying or selling digital assets through the usage of FIAT currency.

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$166.5m

Money raised

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.

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$40.8m

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

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$9.0m

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

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$799.8m

Money raised

A bank offering online banking services with no user no bank fees, and an option to receive direct deposit up to two days early. Chris Britt and Ryan King founded Chime in 2013, and the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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$142.5m

Money raised

The first and most experienced company in bitcoin payments, BitPay builds powerful tools for spending, accepting, and building with bitcoin. The company has offices in North America, Europe, and South America and has raised over $70 million from top investors including Index Ventures, Aquiline Technology Growth, Menlo Ventures, Founders Fund, and S

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$17.5m

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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.

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$23.0m

Money raised

P2P Validator is a company with a platform that helps investors compound their cryptocurrency investments by participating in staking.

4

Funding Rounds

$107.0m

Money raised

ComplyAdvantage is a company developing machine learning and big data based financial crime fighting software.

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$27.0m

Money raised

CryptoKitties is a game built on the Ethereum blockchain in which users can collect and trade virtual kittens.

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$112.6m

Money raised

Bit2Me is a cryptocurrency trading platform founded in 2014 by Leif Ferreira.

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$7.9m

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t3rn is a hosting platform for smart contracts, that enables trustless, interoperable, multi-chain execution and composable collaboration.

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$454.1m

Money raised

Mythical Games is a Los Angeles-based video game development company developing games for playable non-fungible tokens to identify game characters that players can own and offers players a secondary market.

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Funding Rounds

$126.5m

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

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$17.0m

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Zapper is an interface for managing DeFi assets and liabilities.

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$49.4m

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Bitcoin Suisse AG is a Swiss-regulated financial intermediary specializing in crypto-financial services, based in Zug, Switzerland.

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$119.2m

Money raised

Phantom is a cryptocurrency wallet by Solana to manage digital assets and access decentralized applications.

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$5.0m

Money raised

Jupiter Exchange is a swap aggregator on Solana.

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Funding Rounds

$307.0m

Money raised

Forge, formerly Equidate, is a company that offers a marketplace for private stock liquidation.

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$1.6m

Money raised

Safello is a company founded in 2013 by Frank Schuil.

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$900.0k

Money raised

Pitney Bowes is a Stamford, Connecticut-based company founded in 1920 by Walter Bowes.

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$1.2b

Money raised

CoinDCX is a blockchain company founded in 2017 by Sumit Gupta. CoinDCX is India’s largest and safest cryptocurrency exchange.

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3

Funding Rounds

$34.0m

Money raised

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

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7

Funding Rounds

$165.1m

Money raised

Figment is a blockchain infrastructure and software provider.

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Funding Rounds

$3.8b

Money raised

Klarna is a financial technology company providing e-commerce payment solutions for merchants and shoppers.

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2

Funding Rounds

$29.5m

Money raised

Immunefi is a bug bounty security services platform that focuses on bug bounty and security services for Web3 projects.

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$5.1m

Money raised

Flint is a global crypto investment app offering a range of passive investment assets to its users built on top of crypto.

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$54.2m

Money raised

Layer1 is a cryptocurrency investment and infrastructure platform.

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$3.5m

Money raised

Backd is a liquidity made reactive founded in 2020 by Xan Myburgh.

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$110.1m

Money raised

Coinhouse is the developer of an investment platform for cryptocurrency assets.

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Funding Rounds

$24.0m

Money raised

Ondo Finance is an open, permissionless, decentralized investment bank

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$1.3b

Money raised

Brex is a credit card company that issues corporate credit cards with no security deposit.

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7

Funding Rounds

$612.4m

Money raised

Dapper Labs is a software developer that creates blockchain-based video games and platforms.

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3

Funding Rounds

$764.7m

Money raised

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

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$2.3m

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A web and API platform that provides Bitcoin and Altcoin conversion.

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$81.5m

Money raised

Kasisto is a company that develops conversational AI for financial institutions.

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3

Funding Rounds

$137.0m

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Upstox is an India-based investment platform founded by Shrini Viswanath, Ravi Kumar, Kavitha Subramanian, and Raghu Kumar.

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7

Funding Rounds

$875.5m

Money raised

C3 AI is an enterprise artificial intelligence software company providing a family of integrated products for accelerating digital transformation.

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1

Funding Rounds

$8.5m

Money raised

Zeta Markets is the premier derivatives protocol on Solana.

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Funding Rounds

$2.5b

Money raised

Cockroachs Labs is the New York based company behind Cockroach DB, an open source, distributed SQL database.

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$1.2m

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Artificial intelligence company who uses models and IBM's Watson in the management of their AI Powered Equity Fund ETF (AIEQ) and AI Powered International Equity ETF (AIIQ)

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$13.5m

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MetaMap aims to digitize trust

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$1.1b

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Circle is a peer-to-peer payments technology company that is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and was founded in 2013 by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville.

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$9.3m

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Cega is a Singapore-based company developing a decentralized finance application designed to create derivative contracts as well as consumer-facing staking products for the retail audience.

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$8.5m

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Decentralized autonomous organization focused on the democratization and innovation in betting

Zayo Group offers bandwidth infrastructure services across various markets, delivering lit services and dark fiber products. It supports wireline and wireless customers, data centers, and government agencies with a robust network infrastructure. The company also provides carrier-neutral colocation facilities to enhance connectivity options.

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$1.0b

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Hardware wallet for crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Monero and more.

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$4.0m

Money raised

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

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$6.0m

Money raised

Maximum protection and yield, fully protected through Protocol Controlled Underwriting.

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Funding Rounds

$100.9m

Money raised

AppZen is a San Jose, California-based company that provides an AI-based auditing platform for finance teams.

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$12.0m

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MyCointainer is a staking, masternode, lpos, pos, proof of stake coins solution.

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$12.2m

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Gelato is a protocol to automate smart contract executions on Ethereum.

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$2.4m

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

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$4.0m

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Web3Games is an integrated Platform for All Things Blockchain Gaming.

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$93.0m

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Personetics' self-driving finance platform for banks to anticipate a customer's personalized banking needs through artificial intelligence.

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$898.4m

Money raised

Wise, previously TransferWise, is a company that offers money transfers services founded by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus.

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$646.9m

Money raised

Socure is a New York City-based developer of an identity verification and fraud risk solution.

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$1.4b

Money raised

wefox is a digital insurance provider and platform that was founded in 2015.

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$57.2m

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A company offering a business intelligence and risk management platform.

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$15.4m

Money raised

SynFutures is a decentralized Derivatives Protocol.

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$146.0m

Money raised

SirionLabs provides a contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform for enterprises.

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$365.3m

Money raised

Roofstock is a real estate investment marketplace founded in May 2015 by Gary Beasley, Gregor Watson, Devin Wade, and Rich Ford.

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Funding Rounds

$263.3m

Money raised

LayerZero is an omnichain interoperability protocol that unites decentralized applications (dapps) across disparate blockchains

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$4.2m

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Footprint is an all-in-one analysis platform to visualize your discoveries in blockchain data

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$5.4m

Money raised

BigchainDB is a scalable blockchain database that enables developers and enterprise to deploy blockchain proof-of-concepts, platforms and apps with a scalable blockchain database.

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$5.6m

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Pods is a decentralized non-custodial options protocol. Users can create options and trade them through an Options AMM on the Ethereum Blockchain.

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