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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 Crypto

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.

Cabal

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Cabal is a private workspace to send, ask & update, track contributions, and scale the advisory program for founders &investors.

Coinrule

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Coinrule Limited is a London-based company that offers an online platform for cryptocurrency trading, founded in 2017. The platform serves as a smart assistant for traders, allowing them to automate trading instructions without the need for coding skills. Coinrule empowers users to compete with professional algorithmic traders and hedge funds by providing tools that analyze market indicators for effective fund allocation. In addition to facilitating trading, the company also focuses on educating users through its platform, enhancing their understanding of cryptocurrency trading strategies.

Keyri

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Passwordless authentication system employing a mobile app and proprietary cryptographic protocol. Keyri enables registration and login via QR code, eliminating all manual inputs. The protocol eliminates passwords and their attendant vulnerabilities, including phishing, password stuffing, man-in-the-middle attacks, and malware-based attacks.

Invezo

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Invezo is an investing research/analysis tool for stocks and crypto-assets, tying social media data (read: hype!) and financial data together.

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.

Hedgehog

Seed Round in 2021
Trade on any exchange, track all your wallets, and learn about cryptocurrency with Hedgehog. Take control of your investments with our all-in-one research center, portfolio tracker, and trading platform. Try it out at hedgehog.app

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.

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.

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.

Spenny

Seed Round in 2020
Spenny offers an easy and fast way to save and invest money. It uses encryption and partner with insured custodians to ensure the assets are held safely. Every time a user makes any digital transaction, it rounds off the amount to the nearest 10 INR and invests it for them into a diversified portfolio, automatically.

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.

Medcrypt

Series A in 2019
MedCrypt is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting medical devices by providing data security as a service to medical device original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Founded in 2016 and based in Encinitas, California, MedCrypt's platform incorporates essential security features that ensure medical devices, such as pacemakers and surgical robots, operate only on instructions from trusted sources. The company's solutions include user authentication, data encryption, and transaction monitoring, which help hospitals and health systems prevent unauthorized access and misuse of medical devices. By enabling engineers to integrate these security measures swiftly and efficiently, MedCrypt allows them to concentrate on developing innovative clinical features that can enhance patient care.

Mudrex

Seed Round in 2019
Mudrex helps people invest in crypto like a hedge fund does. Pro traders build trading algorithms using Mudrex algorithmic trading platform. Mudrex builds portfolio bundle using top performing algorithms for different risk-reward profile. An investor simply choose a portfolio based on her risk-reward expectations. Mudrex then automatically buys and sells different crypto currencies on behalf of investors.

Medcrypt

Seed Round in 2019
MedCrypt is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting medical devices by providing data security as a service to medical device original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Founded in 2016 and based in Encinitas, California, MedCrypt's platform incorporates essential security features that ensure medical devices, such as pacemakers and surgical robots, operate only on instructions from trusted sources. The company's solutions include user authentication, data encryption, and transaction monitoring, which help hospitals and health systems prevent unauthorized access and misuse of medical devices. By enabling engineers to integrate these security measures swiftly and efficiently, MedCrypt allows them to concentrate on developing innovative clinical features that can enhance patient care.

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.

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.

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.

Synthetic Minds

Seed Round in 2018
Synthetic Minds is a smart contract security startup. It has built automation that can read and write code using program synthesis.

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.

Federacy

Seed Round in 2018
Federacy Cypher, Inc. is a company that specializes in providing an online security platform tailored for startup businesses. Founded in 2018, it focuses on offering a bug bounty service, enabling startups to identify and address security vulnerabilities effectively. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and aims to enhance the security posture of emerging companies by leveraging the expertise of security researchers.

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.

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.

Hexel

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Hexel is a startup that wants to make it easy for anyone to use Ethereum-based tokens to engage their hyperlocal community. It is a platform for creating and managing cryptocurrencies for communities where you can create your own crypto token for anyone like your subreddit, or your gaming channel. It was established in 2017 and is based in San Fransisco, California.

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.

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.

CoinTent

Seed Round in 2016
Launched in 2013, CoinTent is a digital wallet and subscription service that enables users to purchase quality content, including articles, videos, blog posts, and more, for micropayments across websites. Its services provide a revenue channel for publishers, supplementing revenue sources such as advertising and subscriptions. CoinTent is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

NuCypher

Seed Round in 2016
NuCypher is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in developing a data-centric zero-trust encryption platform focused on protecting sensitive information. The company offers a product designed for sharing sensitive data while ensuring compliance with governance and residency requirements. Its encryption layer allows organizations to implement military-strength encryption to safeguard large and distributed data sets, whether stored in the cloud or on-premises. By utilizing existing access policies, NuCypher enhances the security of big data applications against internal and external threats. Additionally, the company is committed to creating privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols, further advancing its mission in the field of cryptography.

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.

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.

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.

Coderwall

Seed Round in 2012
Coderwall is a collaborative learning platform for software developers to improve their programming knowledge. It is based in San Francisco, California.

Debteye

Seed Round in 2011
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CryptoSeal

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