Crypto / Web3 Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) in the San Francisco Bay Area 2024

May 2024

Browse 23 of the top Crypto / Web3 startups funded by Y Combinator. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, these are some of the hottest and fastest-growing startups.

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  • Coinbase
    Coinbase (s2012)Public • 6,112 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone. Two principles guide our efforts. First, be the most trusted company in our domain. Second, create user-focused products that are easier and more intuitive to use.
    crypto-web3
  • Protocol Labs
    Protocol Labs (s2014)Active • 130 employees • Palo Alto, CA, USA
    Protocol Labs is an open-source research, development, and deployment laboratory. Our projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and many more. We aim to make human existence orders of magnitude better through technology. Some of our projects. IPFS makes the web work peer-to-peer. IPFS is a protocol for storing, addressing, and transferring data, designed to replace HTTP in many contexts. IPFS uses content-addressing to uniquely identify and link to information. IPFS is one of the leading protocols of Web3, crypto, and the decentralized web movements. IPFS serves millions of end users and tens of thousands of developers. It powers the websites and applications of small startups, large enterprises, and even blockchains. Filecoin is a decentralized storage network, designed to store humanity's most important information. Filecoin is a cryptocurrency incentivized decentralized market, where storage providers earn filecoin tokens for renting out storage space. (Think airbnb for cloud storage). Filecoin is one of the leading projects in the cryptocurrency/blockchain space.
    crypto-web3
    open-source
  • CoinTracker
    CoinTracker (w2018)Active • 100 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    [CoinTracker](https://www.cointracker.io) is a portfolio assistant for cryptocurrency. Used by over 1 million cryptocurrency holders with over $50 Billion in crypto assets on exchanges, it enables consumers and businesses to seamlessly track their cryptocurrency portfolio, investment performance, taxes, and more. Beyond cryptocurrency, we are building a general automated financial assistant for all financial assets.
    fintech
    saas
    crypto-web3
    consumer
  • TRM Labs
    TRM Labs (s2019)Active • 180 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    At TRM, we're on a mission to build trust in digital assets, because the promise of crypto is too valuable to be impeded by bad actors. We provide a blockchain intelligence platform to law enforcement, financial institutions, and crypto firms to assist in the detection and prevention of cryptocurrency fraud and financial crime. Our vision is to build a company that can sustainably deliver on our mission for decades to come, enabling consumers to transact safely and securely on the blockchain. Join our mission ➔ www.trmlabs.com/careers
    fintech
    machine-learning
    crypto-web3
    data-engineering
  • OpenSea
    OpenSea (w2018)Active • 250 employees • New York, NY, USA
    OpenSea is building the world’s most trusted and inclusive peer-to-peer NFT marketplace. OpenSea makes minting, purchasing and selling NFTs frictionless, and offers multi-chain options for creators and collectors of all kinds to own and shape their relationships directly. Headquartered in New York, the OpenSea leadership team comes from Google, Palantir, Lyft, Uber, Stanford and Berkeley. Investors include a16z, Paradigm, Coatue.
    marketplace
    crypto-web3
    nft
  • Coco Pago
    Coco Pago (s2019)Active • 50 employees • New York, NY, USA
    Send, spend, save, and earn money via stablecoins.
    crypto-web3
  • Mudrex
    Mudrex (w2019)Active • 11 employees • Mountain View, CA, USA
    Mudrex is on a mission to bring risk optimised high yield investments to everyone. Sophisticated high yield investments like hedge funds have been accessible only to richest. With a novel approach, we help average investors invest like a hedge fund.
    fintech
    crypto-web3
  • Listia
    Listia (s2009)Active • 6 employees • Santa Clara, CA, USA
    Listia is a new kind of auction marketplace for giving and getting free stuff. Users list items as auctions, and other users bid on these items using credits instead of money. Credits are earned by signing up, giving away stuff, and being an active member.
    marketplace
    crypto-web3
  • LootRush
    LootRush (s2021)Active • San Francisco, CA, USA
    We create an affordable way for gamers to start playing crypto games and a secure way for investors to earn yield through NFTs.
    cloud-gaming
    crypto-web3
  • Cashmere
    Cashmere (w2022)Active • 3 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Cashmere is a multisig solana wallet for enterprises to manage their digital assets. Instead of running their business from one person’s wallet, startups can use our wallet to securely manage their funds.
    defi
    crypto-web3
    dao
  • Quantstamp
    Quantstamp (w2018)Active • 80 employees • Toronto, ON, Canada
    Quantstamp has protected billions in digital assets from hackers on our mission to secure web3. As a global team of security professionals, we have honed our technology and expertise through hundreds of audits and gained the trust of our clients to keep their innovative products safe. In addition to providing an array of security services, we facilitate the growth and longevity of the web3 space through strategic investments and acting as a trusted advisor to help projects scale. Quantstamp is honored to have worked with some of the top projects in the industry including Aave, Compound, Maker, OpenSea, Polygon and many more. As the leading blockchain security company in this emerging industry, we are always looking for team members that love taking initiative and solving challenging problems. Join the team and help us secure the future of web3.
    crypto-web3
    security
  • ZeFi
    ZeFi (w2020)Active • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    ZeFi is a zk native cloud platform that lets developers build and deploy zero knowledge circuits directly on the cloud. With one click deployment and instant provisioning of APIs for proof generation, you can go to to market with your zk circuits instantly.
    developer-tools
    crypto-web3
  • OWNY
    OWNY (s2018)Active • 10 employees • Palo Alto, CA, USA
    Owny provides businesses with a turn-key portal to issue Funds, SAFEs and Notes. Your portal is fully equipped to manage investors, treasury, multi-currency accounts and ability to send and request ACH/Wire payments globally. Optional features include seamless crypto custody and solutions through Coinbase Institutional.
    banking-as-a-service
    fintech
    crypto-web3
    ai
  • Paymobil
    Paymobil (w2020)Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Paymobil is a global bank account replacement using stablecoins. We make it possible to send money to any email or phone number in the world in seconds. We have taken all the friction out of the current terrible UX with crypto p2p payments and made it better than regular consumer products like Venmo and Square Cash. Unlike those it works across borders and can launch globally due to our non-custodial architecture.
    fintech
    crypto-web3
  • Hedgehog
    Hedgehog (s2021)Active • 5 employees • San Jose, CA, USA
    Hedgehog is a crypto robo-adviser that manages your funds in broad baskets of digital assets covering up to 85% of crypto's market cap. We already have 15k users monitoring $176m in crypto assets and over $548k in GTV on our V1 product, we have completed our exit interview with the SEC as of 4/24, and our custodial product is now live in the App Store and Google Play.
    defi
    fintech
    crypto-web3
  • Filta
    Filta (s2021)Active • 3 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Filta is the face filter NFT marketplace being built by veterans from Pixar/Oculus/Facebook. We partner with creators to release limited-edition filters for their fans to use on social media. It turns out: the face filters you see everywhere on Snapchat and Instagram are created by independent artists - not by the platforms. These artists ALMOST NEVER get money for their work - which is insane! Filta fixes this by giving these creators a marketplace and the best filter creation tool anywhere. Interested in working on the future of digital fashion, AR/VR, and web3? Hit us up. We're hiring.
    augmented-reality
    crypto-web3
    virtual-reality
  • SimpleHash
    SimpleHash (w2022)Active • San Francisco, CA, USA
    SimpleHash allows developers to query all NFT data from a single platform. We index multiple blockchains, take care of edge cases, and can be integrated in a few lines of code. We make the lives of developers working with NFT data easier by abstracting away all the complexity. We serve some of the leading names in crypto / web3, including Brave, Rarible, Phantom and Nansen. We're growing quickly, are well-funded, and have an ambitious vision to organize the world of NFTs and digital assets. Join us if you're excited by a high impact role on a lean, fast paced team at the forefront of the revolution in digital assets.
    developer-tools
    saas
    crypto-web3
    nft
  • Metafi
    Metafi (s2022)Active • 2 employees • Singapore
    Metafi is building blockchain infrastructure for Web3 games. With our SDK, game developers can set up an embedded wallet within their game, broadcast transactions to multiple chains, and listen to on-chain events that affect game state.
    saas
    crypto-web3
    b2b
    gaming
    nft
  • Dharma Labs
    Dharma Labs (s2017)Acquired • 14 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Dharma is the only Ethereum wallet capable of seamlessly moving money between any US bank account and decentralized exchanges like Uniswap. The net result is a product that looks & feels like Coinbase on steroids — Download an App. Plug in your bank. Invest in the exponentially growing universe of tokens & yield opportunities in DeFi with a tap.
    fintech
    crypto-web3
  • Winter
    Winter (w2022)Acquired • 3 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Stripe for NFT purchases. Easily buy/sell NFTs with a credit card.
    crypto-web3
  • Satsuma
    Satsuma (s2021)Acquired • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Satsuma is a developer tool for building applications on top of real-time blockchain data. Our product lets developers take decoded data from multiple chains, customize it for their use cases, and access it through API endpoints. Blockchains serve as distributed databases for these products, holding their most important data. However, it’s difficult to access and query that data. We believe this friction is an enormous blocker for web3 developers and that better tooling will enable mass adoption for web3. We’re a founding team of engineers, having built data infrastructure and product as early employees at Airtable, Heap, and Y Combinator.
    developer-tools
    saas
    crypto-web3
    data-engineering