Crypto & web3 startups in New York

Jeremy Allaire, Sean Neville

Issuer of USDC (2nd-largest stablecoin, ~$60B+ cap), Circle moved its global HQ to One World Trade Center in NYC ahead of its June 2025 NYSE IPO (CRCL), which priced at a ~$6.9B valuation and surged 600%+ wi...

Tyler Winklevoss, Cameron Winklevoss

Founded 2014, Gemini is a NYDFS-regulated crypto exchange + custody + stablecoin (GUSD) + rewards-card platform holding $21B+ in assets. IPO'd on Nasdaq (GEMI) Sept 2025 at a $3.3B valuation, popping 14% on ...

Michael Gronager, Jonathan Levin

Founded 2014, Chainalysis is the leading blockchain-data / crypto-compliance platform serving banks, exchanges and governments. Valued at ~$8.6B (Accel, Benchmark) with ~$87M revenue in 2025; it raised a Ser...

Michael Shaulov, Idan Ofrat, Pavel Berengoltz

Founded 2018, Fireblocks is the leading digital-asset custody and infrastructure provider, valued at $8B on a $550M Series E (D1 Capital + Spark). It booked ~$124M revenue in 2024 and in 2025 launched a NY-r...

Nathan Allman, Pinku Surana

Founded 2021 by ex-Goldman Sachs digital-assets lead Nathan Allman, Ondo is the leading real-world-asset (RWA) tokenization platform ('Wall Street 2.0'). Its USDY tokenized Treasury note and Ondo Global Mark...

Charles Cascarilla, Rich Teo

Founded 2012, Paxos is a NYDFS-regulated blockchain-infrastructure and stablecoin issuer (USDP, PYUSD for PayPal, USDG) that has issued $120B+ in stablecoins. Valued ~$2.4B (Oak HC/FT, Founders Fund, PayPal ...

Emin Gün Sirer, Kevin Sekniqi & Ted Yin

Founded 2018 by Cornell computer scientist Emin Gün Sirer and colleagues, Ava Labs builds the Avalanche blockchain (launched Sept 2020) and its novel Avalanche consensus. Focused on subnets/L1s for financial...

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** Hoboken-based proptech (founded 2021) using distributed-ledger/blockchain to modernize real-estate records — security, automation, transparency and interoperability for the property ecosystem. NYC-metro (...

HQ flag)* - **type:** startup - **venue:** Hoboken, NJ - **la:** 40.7439 - **ln:** -74.0324 - **desc:** Hoboken-based proptech (founded 2021) using distributed-ledger/blockchain to modernize real-estate records — security, automation, transparency and interoperability for the property ecosystem. NYC-metro (NJ) HQ — flagged as New Jersey. Emerging govtech/proptech infrastructure play. - **link:** https://www.builtinnyc.com/articles/tech-companies-in-nj-startups - **vertical:** ["proptech", "blockchain", "govtech"] - **stage:** early-stage ### sw-18 -

Hoboken-based proptech (founded 2021) using distributed-ledger/blockchain to modernize real-estate records — security, automation, transparency and interoperability for the property ecosystem. NYC-metro (NJ)...

Jason Yanowitz & Michael Ippolito

Founded 2018, Blockworks is a crypto financial media, events, and data company aiming to be 'the Bloomberg of crypto' — combining news, the Permissionless conference, Blockworks Research, and institutional-g...

Omer Goldberg

Founded 2021 by ex-Instagram/Facebook tech lead Omer Goldberg, Chaos Labs is an automated on-chain economic-security and risk-management platform used by Aave, GMX, dYdX, and Venus to secure billions in asse...

Jake Brukhman & Aleksandr Bulkin

Founded 2015, CoinFund is one of the longest-running NYC crypto-native venture firms, investing across seed, venture, and liquid stages in Web3 infrastructure and protocols (portfolio incl. Solana, Polygon, ...

Joseph Lubin

Founded 2015 by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, Consensys is the leading Ethereum software studio, building MetaMask (the dominant self-custody wallet), Infura (node infrastructure), and Linea (zk-rollup L...

Barry Silbert

Founded 2015 by Barry Silbert, DCG is a crypto conglomerate and prolific investor with 200+ equity investments across 25+ countries. Subsidiaries include Grayscale (largest crypto asset manager by AUM) and F...

Mike Novogratz

Founded 2018 by ex-Fortress/Goldman partner Mike Novogratz, Galaxy is a diversified digital-asset financial-services and investment firm (trading, asset management, prime brokerage, mining, ventures). Receiv...

Tarun Chitra, John Morrow & Rei Chiang

Founded 2018 by Cornell physics PhD Tarun Chitra (ex-D.E. Shaw), Gauntlet is a DeFi risk-management and financial-modeling firm. It runs simulations and real-time risk monitoring for major protocols (Aave, U...

Ryan Selkis & Dan McArdle

Founded 2018 to bring transparency to crypto markets, Messari is a crypto asset data, research, and intelligence platform and host of the Mainnet conference. NOTE: Messari was acquired by fellow NYC firm Blo...

Devin Finzer & Alex Atallah

Founded Dec 2017 (launched 2018), OpenSea became the world's largest NFT marketplace, making Finzer and Atallah the first NFT billionaires in Jan 2022 at a $13.3B valuation. Has since expanded into a broader...

Anton Katz & Ethan Feldman

Founded 2018, Talos is institutional digital-asset trading infrastructure — a unified OEMS/PMS and data platform spanning the full trade lifecycle for brokers, lenders, and investors. Backed by a16z and Gene...

Hayden Adams

Founded 2018 by Hayden Adams, Uniswap Labs builds the leading decentralized exchange protocol and the largest AMM in DeFi, plus the Uniswap web app, wallet, and Unichain L2. One of the most-used crypto appli...