33 Best Decentralized Finance Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Decentralized Finance Startups

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There are 294 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $1.1b. The average funding per company in this subset is $34.1m.

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

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Funding Rounds

$40.8m

Money raised

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

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$17.5m

Money raised

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.

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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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$34.0m

Money raised

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

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$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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Funding Rounds

$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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$3.5m

Money raised

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

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$12.2m

Money raised

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

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$10.0m

Money raised

FluidAI is a technology company that uses artificial intelligence to provide a host of solutions for the digital assets industry. The company is based in the United Arab Emirates.

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$50.0m

Money raised

imToken is a company providing a multi-chain cryptocurrency wallet.

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$100.0m

Money raised

Matrixport is a cryptocurrency financial services platform enabling users to earn, invest, trade, loan and purchase crypto assets.

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Funding Rounds

$2.1m

Money raised

Cypher is a decentralized synthetic asset protocol.

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$5.5m

Money raised

deBridge is a cross-chain interoperability and liquidity transfer protocol that allows decentralized transfer of data and assets between various blockchains.

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Laminar is a decentralised financial protocols founded in 2019 by Bette Chen, Bryan Chen and Ruitao Su.

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Etherscan is a block explorer for Ethereum.

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$5.0m

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GIANT Protocol is a developer of a blockchain protocol for decentralizing and democratizing access to the internet and financial services through tokenized bandwidth.

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$4.6m

Money raised

Router Protocol is a blockchain that offers cross-chain dApp interoperability to developers.

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$3.2m

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Staking Rewards is an information hub and data aggregator offering investment insights for the crypto staking industry.

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$1.6m

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Crypto hedgehog is a San Jose, CA-based investment management software company providing a portfolio management app for cryptocurrencies.

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$3.6m

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A decentralized capital market powered by a cross-margin cross-collateralization clearing engine protocol.

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OpenZeppelin provides security products to build, automate, and operate decentralized applications.

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$5.3m

Money raised

Aperture Finance is a cross-chain marketplace for investing strategies in the decentralized finance domain.

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$5.2m

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Sense Finance is an adding Dimension to DeFi founded in 2021 by Kenton Prescott.

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$61.5m

Money raised

Flipside Crypto is a blockchain company founded in 2017 by Dave Balter, Jim Myers and eric stone.

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$7.9m

Money raised

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.

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$17.5m

Money raised

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

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$36.4m

Money raised

Element is an open-source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets.

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$5.7m

Money raised

ICONIUM works with projects in digital assets, metaverses, and blockchain.

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Retrograde is a supercharging Yields and Governance on Terra.

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Funding Rounds

$176.0m

Money raised

Prime Trust is a technology-driven trust company unlike anything else in existence. We are doing to the traditional trust industry what Paypal did to merchant processing; completely disrupting it by writing software that brings services to the masses and that business partners can build on top of. As a chartered, regulated financial institution we are overseen by the banking commissioner's office at the Financial Institutions Division. As a trust company we hold cash and non-cash assets such as stocks, bonds, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, tokens, real estate, and private business ownership interests. We act as custodian and trustee for a wide variety of personal and corporate trusts, as well as a major part of the crowdfunding industry, and work with individuals, corporations, lawyers, brokers, investment advisers and others on holding and managing specialized custodial, escrow and trust services. Our team has deep experience in all facets of trust operations, banking, securities regulations, and governmental affairs, and we have our own team of full-time, in-house, security-vetted engineers. Together we deliver world class solutions and services to individuals and corporations of all sizes to keep them protected. Member, American Bankers Association and Nevada Trust Company Association.

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gDEX Metaverse is a gaming platform in the metaverse.

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$5.0m

Money raised

Shade Protocol is an array of connected privacy-preserving DeFi applications built on Secret Network

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