69 Best Specialty Finance Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Specialty Finance Startups

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There are 4,579 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $24.5b. The average funding per company in this subset is $355.2m.

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Funding Rounds

$32.1m

Money raised

SupraOracles is a company developing a blockchain network

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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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$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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Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$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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Funding Rounds

$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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Funding Rounds

$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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Funding Rounds

$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.

11

Funding Rounds

$112.6m

Money raised

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

9

Funding Rounds

$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.

5

Funding Rounds

$126.5m

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$17.0m

Money raised

Zapper is an interface for managing DeFi assets and liabilities.

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Funding Rounds

$49.4m

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$119.2m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

Jupiter Exchange is a swap aggregator on Solana.

9

Funding Rounds

$307.0m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

Safello is a company founded in 2013 by Frank Schuil.

3

Funding Rounds

$900.0k

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

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

3

Funding Rounds

$34.0m

Money raised

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

20

Funding Rounds

$3.8b

Money raised

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

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.

1

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.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.5m

Money raised

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

4

Funding Rounds

$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

10

Funding Rounds

$1.3b

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

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

9

Funding Rounds

$81.5m

Money raised

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

3

Funding Rounds

$137.0m

Money raised

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

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.

1

Funding Rounds

$8.5m

Money raised

Zeta Markets is the premier derivatives protocol on Solana.

9

Funding Rounds

$2.5b

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

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)

1

Funding Rounds

$13.5m

Money raised

MetaMap aims to digitize trust

9

Funding Rounds

$1.1b

Money raised

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$9.3m

Money raised

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$8.5m

Money raised

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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Funding Rounds

$1.0b

Money raised

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

6

Funding Rounds

$100.9m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$12.2m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$2.4m

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$93.0m

Money raised

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

6

Funding Rounds

$898.4m

Money raised

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

8

Funding Rounds

$646.9m

Money raised

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

8

Funding Rounds

$1.4b

Money raised

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

5

Funding Rounds

$57.2m

Money raised

A company offering a business intelligence and risk management platform.

3

Funding Rounds

$15.4m

Money raised

SynFutures is a decentralized Derivatives Protocol.

4

Funding Rounds

$146.0m

Money raised

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

7

Funding Rounds

$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.

4

Funding Rounds

$263.3m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$4.2m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$5.6m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$1.1b

Money raised

Deel is a technology company offering a human resources management system solution for businesses working with global remote contractors.

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A Canadian food biotech company focused on the development of hypoallergenic peanuts

2

Funding Rounds

$15.3m

Money raised

Alloy is a San Francisco-based software company developing a platform for inventory and shipment visibility, including sell-in and sell-through analytics.

7

Funding Rounds

$638.8m

Money raised

TradingView is a platform which provides instruments for publication and the viewing of trading ideas.

1

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

Vertalo is a digital transfer agent that connects and enables a digital asset ecosystem, offering primary capital formation, on-chain share registry, and access to secondary liquidity.

9

Funding Rounds

$312.9m

Money raised

Prosper is an online peer-to-peer lending marketplace connecting people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions who want to lend money.

5

Funding Rounds

$90.0m

Money raised

Strapi is a company offering an open-source headless content management system (CMS).

8

Funding Rounds

$398.6m

Money raised

Patreon is a San Francisco-based crowdfunding platform for artists and creators founded by Jack Conte and Sam Yam in 2013.

14

Funding Rounds

$2.5b

Money raised

N26 is a is a mobile banking company headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

9

Funding Rounds

$378.4m

Money raised

Bitso is a cryptocurrency exchange for buying and selling Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, TrueUSD, Decentraland, Golem, and Basic Attention Token.

5

Funding Rounds

$365.2m

Money raised

Unqork is a software company that offers a no-code, software as a service (SaaS) development platform for creating and managing enterprise applications for companies providing insurance and financial services.

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