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Y Combinator

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2005. It has pioneered a new funding model for early-stage startups by investing a modest amount of capital, typically around $150,000, in a large number of companies twice a year. Over a three-month program, Y Combinator collaborates closely with these startups to prepare them for investor pitches and enhance their business strategies. Each funding cycle concludes with Demo Day, where startups present to an exclusive audience of investors. Y Combinator focuses on various sectors, including business software, education, healthcare, and financial technology, among others. In addition to initial funding, it offers ongoing support through its extensive alumni network. Since its inception, Y Combinator has funded over 630 startups, contributing significantly to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Silicon Valley and beyond.

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Gustaf Alstromer

Group Partner

Matt Bogrand

Associate, YC Continuity Fund

Timothy Brady

Partner

Craig R. Cannon

Director of Marketing

Adora Cheung

Partner

Nic Dardenne

Principal

Aaron Epstein

Group Partner

Brad Flora

Group Partner

Jared Friedman

Managing Director, Software and Group Partner

Aaron Harris

Partner

Carolynn Levy

Partner

Bradford (Brad) Lightcap

Associate, YC Continuity

Kat Manalac

Managing Partner

Eric Migicovsky

Partner

Kirsty Nathoo

Partner

Verena Prescher

Director of Finance

Geoff Ralston

president

Ali Rowghani

Managing Partner

Arnav Sahu

Principal

Michael Seibel

Managing Director

Harj Taggar

Partner

Past deals in Blockchain

Formance

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Numary is an open-source financial ledger for e-commerce and fintech companies.

GoSats

Seed Round in 2022
Bitcoin has been the best performing asset EVER. We want to make it super-easy for everyone to get bitcoin. Apart from investing in bitcoin, we offer people an alternative way to accumulate bitcoin when they do their usual shopping at their favourite brands.

Multis

Venture Round in 2022
Multis, Inc. provides financial services tailored for companies and entrepreneurs managing both fiat and cryptocurrencies. Its crypto wallet is designed to facilitate various financial operations, including storing digital assets, making payments to suppliers, managing payroll, and earning interest. The platform offers real-time monitoring of balances and transactions through a centralized dashboard, supports multi-access to assets, and enables features such as recurring payments and currency conversion. Founded in 2006, Multis is headquartered in San Francisco, California, while its team operates across Europe. The company aims to assist businesses in navigating the complexities of cryptocurrency, thereby promoting a global, borderless economy.

CoinTracker

Series A in 2022
CoinTracker is a portfolio & tax manager for cryptocurrency. It automatically syncs transactions into one unified dashboard and helps users file their crypto taxes with the click of a button.

Formance

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Numary is an open-source financial ledger for e-commerce and fintech companies.

2Cents

Pre Seed Round in 2021
2Cents is an ethereum protocol that turns users into network owners for internet communities. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

TRM Labs

Series A in 2021
TRM Labs is a regulatory technology startup that aims to streamline compliance in the crypto industry.They believe that blockchain can enable a world where value flows freely by democratizing the creation of property rights, reducing transaction, bargaining, and coordination costs, and enabling new ways to organize human behavior.

GlobeDX

Seed Round in 2021
The startup, which has dubbed itself the “Coinbase for derivatives,” has built a cryptocurrency-derivative exchange that supports high-frequency trading. The platform allows crypto holders to trade global markets with bitcoin and grants users the same access to data leveraged by institutional investors.

Lastbit

Seed Round in 2021
Lastbit is building a global payment network - using the bitcoin lightning network - to enable anyone, anywhere to pay or get paid instantly and for low fees. Our MVP in Europe features debit cards and IBANs in mobile applications that interface directly with Bitcoin and Euros.

Conta Simples

Seed Round in 2021
A virtual bank, money transfer and P2P lending beyond the borders on the blockchain. Helping 100 of millions of bank and unbanked people in Latin to get access to the banking and lending system and also make a quick profit while lending to the people in their neighborhood with trust. The first quick approved microloans without any documentation. A network builds by people for people.

GlobeDX

Venture Round in 2020
The startup, which has dubbed itself the “Coinbase for derivatives,” has built a cryptocurrency-derivative exchange that supports high-frequency trading. The platform allows crypto holders to trade global markets with bitcoin and grants users the same access to data leveraged by institutional investors.

Multis

Seed Round in 2020
Multis, Inc. provides financial services tailored for companies and entrepreneurs managing both fiat and cryptocurrencies. Its crypto wallet is designed to facilitate various financial operations, including storing digital assets, making payments to suppliers, managing payroll, and earning interest. The platform offers real-time monitoring of balances and transactions through a centralized dashboard, supports multi-access to assets, and enables features such as recurring payments and currency conversion. Founded in 2006, Multis is headquartered in San Francisco, California, while its team operates across Europe. The company aims to assist businesses in navigating the complexities of cryptocurrency, thereby promoting a global, borderless economy.

CarbonChain

Seed Round in 2020
CarbonChain.io Limited develops software as a service (SaaS) tool to automate accounting of carbon emissions. The company helps metals and mining, oil and gas, and agriculture industries to track and manage supply chain carbon emissions. It offers tool to commodities producers, commodities traders, logistics companies, and financial institutions. CarbonChain.io was incorporated in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Blue Onion Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Blue Onion Labs Inc. offers software platform for finance and accounting teams to trace and reconcile order transactions. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Albany, New York.

Conta Simples

Pre Seed Round in 2020
A virtual bank, money transfer and P2P lending beyond the borders on the blockchain. Helping 100 of millions of bank and unbanked people in Latin to get access to the banking and lending system and also make a quick profit while lending to the people in their neighborhood with trust. The first quick approved microloans without any documentation. A network builds by people for people.

ZeFi

Seed Round in 2020
ZeFi develops a neobanking platform that provides a permission less financial ecosystem without a central authority. The platform provides high yield US dollars denominated savings account to convert deposits to fiat cryptocurrency, which is linked to the US dollar, and thereafter lends it out to low-risk borrowers at a higher interest rate, allowing users to interact and earn more with their crypto assets.

TRM Labs

Seed Round in 2019
TRM Labs is a regulatory technology startup that aims to streamline compliance in the crypto industry.They believe that blockchain can enable a world where value flows freely by democratizing the creation of property rights, reducing transaction, bargaining, and coordination costs, and enabling new ways to organize human behavior.

Dashblock

Seed Round in 2019
Dashblock is a software developer based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019. The company specializes in creating a platform that transforms web pages into application programming interfaces (APIs). Utilizing machine learning technology, Dashblock enables users to select and extract data from any web page, allowing for the generation of custom APIs. This tool simplifies the process of programmatically accessing websites and collecting structured data, making it easy for clients to configure their APIs with minimal effort.

Elph Network

Seed Round in 2019
Elph is a portal for decentralized apps. It brings together a token-curated app store, decentralized identity, and secure digital asset storage to make using blockchain-based apps simple. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Multis

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Multis, Inc. provides financial services tailored for companies and entrepreneurs managing both fiat and cryptocurrencies. Its crypto wallet is designed to facilitate various financial operations, including storing digital assets, making payments to suppliers, managing payroll, and earning interest. The platform offers real-time monitoring of balances and transactions through a centralized dashboard, supports multi-access to assets, and enables features such as recurring payments and currency conversion. Founded in 2006, Multis is headquartered in San Francisco, California, while its team operates across Europe. The company aims to assist businesses in navigating the complexities of cryptocurrency, thereby promoting a global, borderless economy.

Lastbit

Seed Round in 2019
Lastbit is building a global payment network - using the bitcoin lightning network - to enable anyone, anywhere to pay or get paid instantly and for low fees. Our MVP in Europe features debit cards and IBANs in mobile applications that interface directly with Bitcoin and Euros.

Elph Network

Seed Round in 2019
Elph is a portal for decentralized apps. It brings together a token-curated app store, decentralized identity, and secure digital asset storage to make using blockchain-based apps simple. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

GlobeDX

Seed Round in 2019
The startup, which has dubbed itself the “Coinbase for derivatives,” has built a cryptocurrency-derivative exchange that supports high-frequency trading. The platform allows crypto holders to trade global markets with bitcoin and grants users the same access to data leveraged by institutional investors.

Ysplit

Seed Round in 2019
Ysplit Inc. is a company based in Sunnyvale, California, that specializes in virtual debit cards designed for group payments. Its innovative platform allows group members to automatically contribute their share of expenses, streamlining the payment process for collaborative transactions. By eliminating the need for one individual to cover the entire cost or to rely on peer-to-peer payment applications, Ysplit enhances the experience of managing shared costs. The company aims to redefine group spending by fostering a more efficient and transparent approach to collaborative cash management.

Castle

Series A in 2019
Castle provides advanced fraud detection and prevention solutions tailored for online businesses of all sizes. By offering technology that was once exclusive to banks and large financial institutions, Castle enables various customer-facing applications—including e-commerce platforms, mobile apps, and cryptocurrency services—to safeguard user accounts against unauthorized access. The company's APIs facilitate account hijack protection by monitoring user behavior through device fingerprinting, keystroke analysis, browsing history, and numerous other indicators. In the event of suspicious activity, both administrators and account owners receive immediate alerts, empowering them to respond swiftly and effectively to potential threats.

Dharma Labs

Series A in 2019
Dharma Labs Inc. is a company that specializes in the development of smart contracts and tools for issuing and crowdfunding debt on blockchain technology. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, Dharma Labs provides a protocol that facilitates the decentralized issuance, origination, risk assessment, and underwriting of peer-to-peer loans. By enabling open and permissionless innovation in the lending industry, Dharma allows entrepreneurs to create various lending platforms, including consumer lending services, margin lending networks, and crowdfunding platforms for municipal bonds. This approach leverages blockchain technology to enhance the efficiency and security of lending operations.

TRM Labs

Seed Round in 2019
TRM Labs is a regulatory technology startup that aims to streamline compliance in the crypto industry.They believe that blockchain can enable a world where value flows freely by democratizing the creation of property rights, reducing transaction, bargaining, and coordination costs, and enabling new ways to organize human behavior.

Coinbase

Series E in 2018
Coinbase, Inc. is an online platform that enables merchants, consumers, and traders to buy, sell, and store digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, Coinbase provides various products and services, such as a user-friendly website for transactions, digital wallets, and merchant payment processing tools. The platform allows users to connect their bank accounts to facilitate the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies. Additionally, Coinbase Ventures serves as the company's investment arm, focusing on early-stage startups in the cryptocurrency and blockchain sectors. With a mission to create an open financial system for the world, Coinbase has positioned itself as a significant player in the digital currency market.

Sparkswap

Seed Round in 2018
SparkSwap is a cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2017 and based in Atlanta, Georgia. It is notable for being the first exchange built on the Lightning Network, which facilitates peer-to-peer trading without the need for users to deposit their assets on the platform. This design significantly reduces counterparty risk and combines advantages of both centralized and decentralized exchanges. SparkSwap is primarily used by cryptocurrency miners and traders to exchange Bitcoin and Litecoin, enabling trustless transactions and enhancing security for its users by mitigating the risks associated with centralized exchanges.

Buycoins

Seed Round in 2018
BuyCoins is a cryptocurrency trading platform based in Lagos, Nigeria, that allows users to buy, sell, receive, send, and store various cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Litecoin. The platform operates through a mobile application, enabling instant trading without the need for users to find individual traders for transactions. This service aims to simplify the cryptocurrency trading experience by providing a seamless and efficient interface for both novice and experienced users.

Incentivai

Seed Round in 2018
Incentivai, founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in developing software for smart contracts. The company's primary offering is a tool that utilizes artificial intelligence agents to simulate and test the incentive structures within smart contract economies. This innovative approach enables users to analyze and refine their incentive models, ensuring they are effective and sustainable in various economic environments.

Axoni

Series B in 2018
Axoni is a New York-based technology firm focused on capital markets, specializing in distributed ledger solutions. Founded in 2013 by experts in distributed ledger technology and cryptography, Axoni serves major financial institutions and capital markets service providers. The company's offerings include the deployment of distributed ledger technology, custom smart contract development, and advanced analytics tools. Their software integrates traditional financial technologies with blockchain capabilities, providing market information and in-depth trend analysis. This comprehensive approach enables investment funders, exchange operators, and professional traders to enhance their systems for managing legal records, lifecycle events, and cash flow calculations.

CoinBundle

Pre Seed Round in 2018
CoinBundle is a cryptocurrency trading platform established in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California. The company aims to simplify cryptocurrency investments for individuals who may lack technical expertise or familiarity with digital assets. By offering bundles of cryptocurrencies, CoinBundle provides a user-friendly way for investors to build and manage their portfolios. The platform aggregates tokens from verified crypto projects and facilitates automated distribution, allowing traditional investors to easily engage in the cryptocurrency market. CoinBundle's mission is to make the world of cryptocurrencies more accessible, empowering a broader audience to participate in the evolving landscape of digital finance.

Obsidian Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Obsidian Labs is a worldwide group focusing on blockchain technology and making great products. They have already released a multi-chain wallet Secrypto and will deliver EOScript as a compiler for EOS mainnet.

CoinTracker

Pre Seed Round in 2018
CoinTracker is a portfolio & tax manager for cryptocurrency. It automatically syncs transactions into one unified dashboard and helps users file their crypto taxes with the click of a button.

Ben

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Ben is a cryptocurrency trading platform that provides users with tools to buy, sell, and store digital currencies. It aims to simplify the complexities of the cryptocurrency landscape by integrating educational resources directly into its mobile app. Users can access comprehensive information about various cryptocurrencies, engage with educational content, and stay updated on market news. The platform also features algorithmic trading strategies to assist users in making informed investment decisions. By combining trading capabilities with educational support, Ben seeks to empower both novice and experienced investors in navigating the cryptocurrency market effectively.

Quantstamp

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Quantstamp, Inc. is a company that specializes in enhancing the security of blockchain technology. Founded in 2017 and based in Dover, Delaware, Quantstamp develops scalable security-audit solutions for blockchain developers and projects. The company's software is designed to monitor and audit various components of decentralized applications, including smart contracts, off-chain activities, networking, and front-end interfaces. By providing thorough security assessments, Quantstamp enables users to implement rigorous auditing processes for their blockchain projects, ensuring they are well-prepared for launch and future developments.

Dharma Labs

Seed Round in 2017
Dharma Labs Inc. is a company that specializes in the development of smart contracts and tools for issuing and crowdfunding debt on blockchain technology. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, Dharma Labs provides a protocol that facilitates the decentralized issuance, origination, risk assessment, and underwriting of peer-to-peer loans. By enabling open and permissionless innovation in the lending industry, Dharma allows entrepreneurs to create various lending platforms, including consumer lending services, margin lending networks, and crowdfunding platforms for municipal bonds. This approach leverages blockchain technology to enhance the efficiency and security of lending operations.

Melotic

Seed Round in 2017
Melotic, Inc. is a cryptocurrency technology company established in 2014 and headquartered in Hong Kong. The company operates a digital asset exchange that facilitates the trading of curated digital assets, including Bitcoin. Melotic is driven by a team of experienced technologists and professionals who are passionate about the transformative potential of cryptocurrencies.

Castle

Seed Round in 2016
Castle provides advanced fraud detection and prevention solutions tailored for online businesses of all sizes. By offering technology that was once exclusive to banks and large financial institutions, Castle enables various customer-facing applications—including e-commerce platforms, mobile apps, and cryptocurrency services—to safeguard user accounts against unauthorized access. The company's APIs facilitate account hijack protection by monitoring user behavior through device fingerprinting, keystroke analysis, browsing history, and numerous other indicators. In the event of suspicious activity, both administrators and account owners receive immediate alerts, empowering them to respond swiftly and effectively to potential threats.

OneChronos

Seed Round in 2016
OneChronos is an independent, venture backed company using cutting edge technological paradigms to enable the next generation of electronic trading.

Castle

Seed Round in 2016
Castle provides advanced fraud detection and prevention solutions tailored for online businesses of all sizes. By offering technology that was once exclusive to banks and large financial institutions, Castle enables various customer-facing applications—including e-commerce platforms, mobile apps, and cryptocurrency services—to safeguard user accounts against unauthorized access. The company's APIs facilitate account hijack protection by monitoring user behavior through device fingerprinting, keystroke analysis, browsing history, and numerous other indicators. In the event of suspicious activity, both administrators and account owners receive immediate alerts, empowering them to respond swiftly and effectively to potential threats.

Sericapay

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Based in San Francisco, SericaPay is a blockchain-based payments network that facilitates processing and payment networking for merchants that demand near-immediate, low-cost financial systems. It provides merchants with the ability to access a network of verified customers and grow their conversions, registrations, memberships, and average order sizes. It allows customers to use the details captured in their SericaPay accounts to purchase from any of the member vendors in the network. SericaPay was launched in 2015.

Serica

Seed Round in 2015
For the first time in history, Serica enables asset rights to be traded & stored on the Bitcoin blockchain by anyone, anywhere. Serica is a commodities trading platform which connects investors to bitcoin-linked asset rights such as gold, silver, platinum & palladium assets tradeable on multiple digital money & precious metal exchanges. Customers, anywhere in the world, can purchase commodities from Serica's dealer partners. Serica's decentralized custodian service publicly manage assets under custody, allowing safe & low-cost storage of valuable hard assets. Customers leverage DigitalTangible centralized & decentralized trading partner platforms to trade their asset-receipts for bitcoin or other digital money. Precious metal bullion may also be rapidly liquidated for cash or bitcoins.

Democracy Earth Foundation

Seed Round in 2015
Democracy.Earth is building an open-source liquid democracy platform built on blockchain technology that makes governance transparent, auditable and accountable. They create tools to organize, decide and petition, free of dependencies on intermediary institutions.

Democracy Earth Foundation

Seed Round in 2014
Democracy.Earth is building an open-source liquid democracy platform built on blockchain technology that makes governance transparent, auditable and accountable. They create tools to organize, decide and petition, free of dependencies on intermediary institutions.

Blockspring

Seed Round in 2014
Blockspring lets you build visualizations from the most innovative blocks developed by engineers within your organization, and from around the world.

Stacks

Seed Round in 2014
Stacks is a mobile communications company based in Melbourne, Australia, that specializes in branded contact sharing solutions. The company provides innovative business cards for iPhone users, enabling them to share contact information seamlessly via iOS 7 and AirDrop. Users can efficiently organize the business cards they receive into customized stacks based on categories such as company, profession, or event. Additionally, any updates made to contact details are automatically synchronized with their contacts, ensuring that information remains current and accessible. Stacks focuses on enhancing the way individuals manage and share their professional connections.

Filecoin

Seed Round in 2014
Filecoin is a data storage network that enables users to rent disk space for file storage. It operates as a decentralized platform, allowing participants to buy and sell storage services using its native electronic currency, which can also be exchanged for other currencies such as Bitcoin and USD. The company is headquartered in the United States and aims to provide a secure and efficient method for managing data storage needs.

Coin

Series A in 2014
Coin is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in providing a smart payment device designed to consolidate multiple payment cards into a single, convenient format. Its flagship product, Coin 2.0, is an electronic device that stores various card information, including debit, credit, gift, loyalty, and membership cards, allowing users to make purchases using magnetic stripe or NFC tap-to-pay technology. Coin also offers a Developer Program in collaboration with major payment networks, enabling manufacturers of wearable devices, such as fitness trackers and smartwatches, to integrate secure payment capabilities. Founded in 2012, Coin focuses on delivering a user-friendly and secure payment solution that enhances the payment experience through innovative technology.

TradeBlock

Seed Round in 2014
TradeBlock, Inc. is a New York-based company established in 2013 that specializes in developing trading tools for institutional investors in the digital currency market. The company offers a comprehensive platform that includes market analytics, blockchain insights, order management, trade execution, team communication, and compliance automation. TradeBlock serves as a global data source, providing detailed analyses on various aspects of the cryptocurrency landscape, including market data, trading regulations, mining, protocol updates, and economic developments. By equipping financial institutions and cryptocurrency traders with advanced analytical tools, TradeBlock enables them to effectively leverage the opportunities presented by blockchain technologies.

Buttercoin

Seed Round in 2013
Buttercoin is an open source, high-volume digital trading engine used to arrange trades in an order book.

Coin

Seed Round in 2013
Coin is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in providing a smart payment device designed to consolidate multiple payment cards into a single, convenient format. Its flagship product, Coin 2.0, is an electronic device that stores various card information, including debit, credit, gift, loyalty, and membership cards, allowing users to make purchases using magnetic stripe or NFC tap-to-pay technology. Coin also offers a Developer Program in collaboration with major payment networks, enabling manufacturers of wearable devices, such as fitness trackers and smartwatches, to integrate secure payment capabilities. Founded in 2012, Coin focuses on delivering a user-friendly and secure payment solution that enhances the payment experience through innovative technology.

Coinbase

Seed Round in 2012
Coinbase, Inc. is an online platform that enables merchants, consumers, and traders to buy, sell, and store digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, Coinbase provides various products and services, such as a user-friendly website for transactions, digital wallets, and merchant payment processing tools. The platform allows users to connect their bank accounts to facilitate the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies. Additionally, Coinbase Ventures serves as the company's investment arm, focusing on early-stage startups in the cryptocurrency and blockchain sectors. With a mission to create an open financial system for the world, Coinbase has positioned itself as a significant player in the digital currency market.

CryptoSeal

Seed Round in 2011
CryptoSeal provides Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) as a service.