Venture Capital Investments in Bitcoin and Blockchain Companies

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Total - $1.11 billion; 2016 - $160.70m; 2015 - $488.08m; 2014 - $362.53m; 2013 - $95.05m; 2012 - $2.13m

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company zkSNACKs: $1.2 million - Seed

31-Oct-2018 | Wallet

Description: zkSNACKs was established to research the possibilities for Bitcoin fungibility enhancements and provide different products ensuring the desired privacy.

Investors: Private

Headquartered: Gibraltar

Country: Gibraltar

company BB KISS: $1.2 million - Seed

28-Oct-2017 | Software

Description: Software development for crypto currency and blockchain integration, training and consulting.

Investors: Private

Headquartered: Darmstadt

Country: Germany

company Filament: $15 million -

30-Mar-2017 | Infrastructure

Description: Filament lets you build a connected business without becoming an expert on security, scalability, or network stacks.

Investors: Verizon Ventures, Bullpen Capital, JetBlue Technology Ventures, Intel Capital, Digital Currency Group, Resonant Venture Partners, Samsung NEXT, Lab IX, Backstage Capital, Tappan Hill Ventures

Headquartered: Reno

Country: United States

company Ledger: $7 million - Series A

30-Mar-2017 | Wallet

Description: Security solutions for cryptocurrencies and blockchains.

Investors: MAIF Avenir, ange, Wicklow Capital, GDTRE, Libertus Capital, Digital Currency Group, The Whittemore Collection, Kima Ventures, BHB Network, Nicolas Pinto

Headquartered: Paris

Country: France

company ShapeShift: $10.4 million - Series A

29-Mar-2017 | Financial Services

Description: Trade any leading blockchain asset for any other. Protection by Design. No Account Needed.

Investors: Earlybird Venture Capital, Lakestar, Blockchain Capital, Pantera Capital and Access Venture Partners, FundersClub, Digital Currency Group, Erik Voorhees

Headquartered: Zug

Country: Switzerland

company Creativechain: $0.35 million - Series Seed

15-Mar-2017 | Content Distribution

Description: Decentralized platform of free content distribution.

Investors: Private

Headquartered: Barcelona

Country: Spain

company Veem: $24 million -

8-Mar-2017 | Financial Services

Description: Veem is a next generation platform for business to business payments. Veem enable businesses to send and receive payments in local currency via a simple and inexpensive manner by using our unique multi-rail technology across several global networks.

Investors: National Australia Bank Ventures, Google Ventures, SBI Investment Co., Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Silicon Valley Bank

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Storj: $3 million - Seed

23-Feb-2017 | Infrastructure

Description: Blockchain-based, end-to-end encrypted, distributed object storage, where only you have access to your data.

Investors: Individual investors of Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, TechStars

Headquartered: Atlanta

Country: United States

company Bitbond: $1.2 million -

22-Feb-2017 | Financial Services

Description: Bitbond is the first global marketplace lending platform for small business loans.

Investors: Şekip Can Gökalp, Janis Zech, Andreas Bodczek, Alexander Graubner-Müller

Headquartered: Berlin

Country: Germany

company Coinfirm: $0.7 million - Seed

9-Feb-2017 | RegTech - Regulation Technology

Description: The Coinfirm platform provides and easy to use solution with valuable structured data that puts entities on the safe side in terms of regulatory and fraud risk.

Investors: Luma Ventures

Headquartered: London

Country: United Kingdom

company Hashed Health: $1.85 million -

7-Feb-2017 | Infrastructure

Description: Hashed Health is leading a consortium of healthcare companies focused on accelerating meaningful innovation using blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.

Investors: Martin Ventures, Fenbushi Capital

Headquartered: Nashville

Country: United States

company Storj: $0.1 million - Seed

31-Jan-2017 | Infrastructure

Description: Blockchain-based, end-to-end encrypted, distributed object storage, where only you have access to your data.

Investors: Utah Governors Office of Economic Development GOED

Headquartered: Mableton

Country: Georgia

company Bitfury: $30 million - Series D

30-Jan-2017 | Infrastructure

Description: The Bitfury Group develops and delivers both the software and the hardware solutions necessary for businesses, governments, organizations and individuals to securely move an asset across the Blockchain.

Investors: Credit China FinTech Holdings

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: California

company Bitpesa: $2.5 million - Series A

30-Jan-2017 | Payment processor

Description: BitPesa is a pan-African platform redefining how businesses make payments to and from sub-Saharan Africa.

Investors: Draper VC, Greycroft LLC, Digital Currency Group, Pantera Capital Management, Blockchain Capital, Zephyr Acorn, FuturePerfectVC and BnkToTheFuture

Headquartered: Nairobi

Country: Kenya

company Cambridge Blockchain: $2 million - Seed

24-Jan-2017 | Infrastructure

Description: Cambridge Blockchain puts control of personal identity data back in the hands of the end user.

Investors: Partech Ventures, Digital Currency Group

Headquartered: Cambridge

Country: United States

company CoolBitX: $0.2 million - Seed

19-Jan-2017 | Wallet

Description: Talents in CoolBitX are dedicated in improving Bitcoin environment with easier, safer, and cooler technologies.

Investors: Midana Capital

Headquartered:

Country:

company SatoshiPay: $0.68 million -

17-Jan-2017 | Financial Services

Description: SatoshiPay is a wallet for pocket change on the web. It allows anybody to instantly pay tiny amounts from and to anywhere.

Investors: Blue Star Capital

Headquartered: London

Country: United Kingdom

company NeuFund: $2 million - Series A

17-Jan-2017 | Venture Capital

Description: Neufund is building a blockchain-based and investor-directed platform which bridges the worlds of blockchain and venture capital.

Investors: Atlantic Labs, Klaas Kersting

Headquartered: Berlin

Country: Germany

company Qtum: $1 million - Seed

11-Jan-2017 | Financial Services

Description: Qtum merges the reliability of Bitcoins unfailing blockchain with the endless possibilities provided by smart contracts.

Investors: Anthony Di Iorio, Star Xu, Xiaolai Li, Bo Shen

Headquartered: Singapore

Country: Singapore

company Blockstack: $4 million - Series A

4-Jan-2017 | Infrastructure

Description: Blockstack is a new decentralized internet where users own their data and apps run locally. A browser portal is all that’s needed to get started.

Investors: Union Sqauare Ventures, Lux Capital, Naval Ravikant, Digital Currency Group, Compound, Version One, Kal Vepuri and Rising Tide

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company Bitpagos: $1.9 million - Series A

3-Jan-2017 | Financial Services

Description: Bitpagos will help you to accept electronic payments on your site, also integrate Bitcoin payments.

Investors: Huiyin Blockchain Venture, Boost VC, Digital Currency Group and Draper VC

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Axoni: $18 million - Series A

22-Dec-2016 | Infrastructure

Description: Axoni provides blockchain infrastructure for capital markets.

Investors: Wells Fargo, ICAP, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Thomson Reuters, Andreessen Horowitz, Digital Currency Group, FinTech Collective and F-Prime Capital Partners

Headquartered: New York

Country: New York

company Wyre: $5.8 million - Series A

15-Dec-2016 | Financial Services

Description: Wyre created an FX engine room that intelligently and securely routes money abroad using hundreds of liquidity providers and settlement methods.

Investors: Amphora Capital, Baofoo.com, 9fBank, Draper Associates, Digital Currency Group

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company OpenBazaar: $3 million - Series A

11-Dec-2016 | Financial Services

Description: OpenBazaar is a different way to do online commerce. Its a peer to peer application that doesn’t require middlemen, which means no fees & no restrictions.

Investors: BlueYard Capital, Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz

Headquartered:

Country:

Polychain Capital: $10 million - Series A

9-Dec-2016 | Financial Services

Description: Polychain Capital manages a hedge fund committed to exceptional returns for investors through an actively managed portfolio of these blockchain assets.

Investors: A16z, USV

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: California

company Bitmark: $1.7 million - Seed

17-Nov-2016 | Financial Services

Description: Bitmark mission is to promote a healthy digital environment by enabling property rights and provenance for digital assets.

Investors: Cherubic Ventures, DCG, WI Harper

Headquartered: Taipei City

Country: Taiwan

company Yours: $0.17 million - Seed

7-Nov-2016 | Infrastructure

Investors: DCG, Boost VC, Huiyin Group, GaiaX

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Settlemint: $ million - Seed

15-Nov-2016 | Financial Services

Description: SettleMint is a Belgium-based software company that provides high quality distributed middleware and solutions to companies that want to take advantage of the blockchain technology.

Investors: Medici Ventures

Headquartered:

Country: Belgium

company PayCommerce: $22 million - Series A

19-Oct-2016 | Financial Services

Description: PayCommerce is the leading, instant enterprise cross-border payments network that enables both disbursements and acceptance transactions for our customers and members through a single point of connectivity.

Investors: Tritium Partners

Headquartered: Piscataway

Country: New Jersey

company Coins: $5 million - Series A

12-Oct-2016 | Financial Services

Investors: Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund, Amasia Venture, BEENEXT, Digital Currency Group, Global Brain Corporation, Innovation Endeavors, Pantera Capital, Rebright Partners, Wavemaker Partners

Headquartered: Manila

Country: Philippines

company Funderbeam: $2.6 million -

12-Oct-2016 | Financial Services

Description: Funderbeam is the first and only platform in the world where growth companies are funded and traded across borders.

Investors: Thomson Reuters, Draper Associates, IQ Capital, 3TS Capital Partners

Headquartered: London

Country: United Kingdom

company Factom: $4.2 million - Series A

5-Oct-2016 | Infrastructure

Description: Factom stores the world’s data on a decentralized system. Using blockchain technology for smart contracts, digital assets and database integrity.

Investors: Tim Draper

Headquartered: Texas

Country: United States

company HYPR: $3 million - Series A

1-Oct-2016 | Infrastructure

Description: HYPR provides enterprises an end-to-end solution for deploying decentralized biometric authentication securely across millions of users. Our software is integrated into employee and customer-facing applications to deliver secure password-less experiences across all mobile, desktop and IoT systems.

Investors: RTP Ventures, Boldstart Ventures and Mesh Ventures

Headquartered: New York

Country: New York

company Trust Stamp: $1.1 million - Seed

30-Sep-2016 | Financial Services

Description: Trust Stamp uses social media and other publicly available data to verify your identity and provide a unique FICO-like trust score.

Investors: Second Century Ventures

Headquartered: Atlanta

Country: Georgia

company Unocoin: $1.5 million -

29-Sep-2016 | Exchange

Description: Unocoin is Indias leading bitcoin company. It enables Indians to buy, sell, store, use and accept bitcoin.

Investors: ah! Ventures, Blume Ventures, Mumbai Angels, BoostVC, BnkToTheFuture, Digital Currency Group, FundersClub

Headquartered: Bangalore

Country: India

company Bitso: $2.5 million -

28-Sep-2016 | Financial Services

Description: The leading Bitcoin and Ether Exchange in Mexico.

Investors: Monex Group, Variv Capital, Xochi Ventures, Digital Currency Group (DCG), FundersClub, Bitcoin Capital, Blockchain Tech Limited

Headquartered: Mexico City

Country: Mexico

company Utocat: $0.53 million - Seed

28-Sep-2016 | Financial Services

Investors: Business Angels, BPIFrance, Leap Ventures

Headquartered: Région de Lille

Country: France

company BigchainDB: $3 million - Series A

27-Sep-2016 | Infrastructure

Description: BigchainDB allows developers and enterprise to deploy blockchain proof-of-concepts, platforms and applications with a scalable blockchain database, supporting a wide range of industries and use cases.

Investors: Earlybird Ventures, Anthemis Group, RWE Ventures, innogy SE, Digital Currency Group

Headquartered: Berlin

Country: Germany

company Juzhen Financials: $23 million - Series A

26-Sep-2016 | Infrastructure

Description: Juzhen has long been working to determine how distributed technologies could offer solutions to problems in Chinas financial markets, even before Lilin said it shifted its focus to blockchain technology.

Investors: Wanxiang Holdings, Fenbushi Capital

Headquartered: Shanghai

Country: China

company Ripple Labs: $55 million - Series B

15-Sep-2016 | Financial Services

Description: Ripple enables banks to open new revenue opportunities, lower processing costs and deliver better overall customer experiences. Integrate once to access the full potential of Ripple’s growing network of financial institutions and liquidity providers.

Investors: Standard Chartered, Accenture Ventures, SCB Digital Ventures, Siam Commercial Bank, SBI Holdings, Santander InnoVentures, CME Ventures, Seagate Technology, Venture 51.

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company LBRY: $0.5 million - Seed

7-Sep-2016 | Infrastructure

Description: LBRY is a free, open, and community-run digital marketplace.

Investors: Pillar VC

Headquartered: New Hampshire

Country: United States

company Crypto Facilities: $1.5 million - Seed

5-Sep-2016 | Financial Services

Description: Trade bitcoin and other digital assets on Crypto Facilities regulated and secure derivatives platform. London-based - high liquidity - low fees.

Investors: Digital Currency Group, Pamir Gelenbe, Playfair Capital, String Ventures

Headquartered: London

Country: England

company Custos Media Technologies: $0.42 million -

26-Aug-2016 | Infrastructure

Investors: South Africa’s Technology Innovation Agency

Headquartered: Stellenbosch

Country: South Africa

company Coinify: $4.0 million - Series A

3-Aug-2016 | Universal

Description: Coinify works to spread the use of digital currencies. With experience in working with digital currencies since 2010, the Coinify team have strong backgrounds with decades of experience in software, e-commerce and compliance.

Investors: SEB Venture Capital and SEED Capital Denmark

Headquartered: Copenhagen

Country: Denmark

company Brave: $4.5 million - Seed

1-Aug-2016 | Infrastructure

Description: Brave have a mission to save the web by increasing browsing speed and safety for users, while growing ad revenue share for content creators.

Investors: Founders Fund's FF Angel, Propel Venture Partners, Pantera Capital, Foundation Capital, Digital Currency Group

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Coinigy: $0.4 million - Seed

27-Jul-2016 | Exchange

Description: Coinigy is the best way to access the global financial markets of the future. Businesses small and large rely on our data to power their decision-making.

Investors: Undisclosed

Headquartered: Milwaukee

Country: United States

company Block.io: $ million -

15-Jul-2016 |

Description: The worlds easiest Bitcoin wallet as a service.

Investors: Samsung SDS

Headquartered:

Country: South Korea

company SETL: $39.0 million - Series A

15-Jul-2016 | Infrastructure

Description: The SETL system will enable market participants to move cash and assets directly between each other, facilitating the immediate and final settlement of market transactions.

Investors:

Headquartered: London

Country: United Kingdom

company Coinbase: $10.5 million -

7-Jul-2016 | Universal

Description: Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a bitcoin wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with the new digital currency bitcoin. We're based in San Francisco, California.

Bitcoin is the world's most widely used alternative currency with a total market cap of approximately $3.5 billion. The bitcoin network is made up of thousands of computers run by individuals all over the world.

The service aims to be the easiest way to get started with Bitcoin. Its service is modeled to provide an experience familiar to those who are comfortable using PayPal.

Investors: Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital (MUCAP), Sozo Ventures

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company DTCO: $0.28 million - Series Seed C

7-Jul-2016 | Blockchain OS

Description: DTCO serves as a bridge between business and blockchain by providing a Blockchain OS for wide range of industries, including intellectual property, healthcare, supply chain management and IoT.

Investors: Cathay Venture Capital, Kyber Capital

Headquartered: Taipei

Country: ROC

company Netki: $3.5 million - Seed

5-Jul-2016 | Infrastructure

Investors: O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Donuts, Colle Capital, The Husseini Group, Digital Currency Group, Bitfinex, Plug and Play, Base Ventures, Tom Turney

Headquartered: Los Angeles

Country: United States

Tradewind: $9 million - Series A

29-Jun-2016 | Infrastructure

Investors: IEX, Sprott

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company Circle Internet Financial: $60.0 million - Series D

23-Jun-2016 | Universal

Description: Circle Internet Financial foster innovative approaches to risk, including our AI risk engine, which runs on cutting edge algorithms that continuously keep your money safe.

Investors: IDG Capital, Breyer Capital, General Catalyst Partners, Glenn Hutchins, Sam Palmisano

Headquartered: Boston

Country: United States

company Mediachain: $1.5 million - Seed

1-Jun-2016 | Infrastructure

Description: Mediachain is a blockchain data solution for connecting applications to media and information about it.

Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, RRE Ventures, Digital Currency Group, LDV Capital, Alexis Ohanian, William Mougayar, Kanyi Maqubela, David Lee, Mathieu Drouin, Brian Message

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company TechBureau: $6.5 million - Series A

12-May-2016 | Financial Services

Investors: Arara, OKWAVE, Nippon Technology Venture Partners, Hiroshima Venture Capital, FISCO, Money Partners Group

Headquartered: Tokyo

Country: Japan

company Fluent: $1.65 million - Seed

10-May-2016 | Financial Services

Investors: ff Venture Capital, Crosscut Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Draper Associates, Fenbushi Capital, Lindbergh Tech Fund, St. Louis Arch Angels

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company Tierion: $1.0 million - Seed

29-Apr-2016 | Infrastructure

Description: Tierion turns the blockchain into a global platform for verifying any data, file, or business process.

Investors: Blockchain Capital, Fenbushi Capital, Digital Currency Group

Headquartered: Hartford

Country: United States

company bitFlyer: $27.0 million - Series C

26-Apr-2016 | Exchange

Description: BitFlyer allows you to easily trade virtual currency bit coins at a transparent price. Market checking is also possible on the chart. BitFlyer supports every transaction on your bit coin and contributes to the spread of bit coins.

Investors: Venture Labo Investment, SBI Investment

Headquartered: Tokyo

Country: Japan

company Ethcore: $0.75 million - Pre-Seed

22-Apr-2016 | Infrastructure

Investors: Blockchain Capital, Fenbushi Capital

Headquartered: London

Country: United Kingdom

company Tibit: $0.16 million - Seed

22-Apr-2016 | Financial Services

Description: Tibit aims to make it possible for anyone to get paid for their work with just a link.

Investors: Private

Headquartered: London

Country: United Kingdom

company BitKan: $1.6 million - Series A

12-Apr-2016 | Financial Services

Description: BitKan provides the latest price for bitcoins and the mining difficulty charts and data. The bitkan app will keep you updated anytime anywhere.

Investors: Bitmain Technology

Headquartered: Shenzhen

Country: China

company Custos Media Technologies: $0.27 million - Seed

8-Apr-2016 | Financial Services

Description: Custos Media Technologies develops cutting edge digital content distribution solutions that allows content owners to distribute, manage, and protect sensitive media.

Investors: Digital Currency Group, Innovus Technology Transfer, Undisclosed angel investor

Headquartered: Stellenbosch

Country: South Africa

company Bitwala: $0.91 million - Seed

4-Apr-2016 | Financial Services

Description: Send & receive money, load your VISA card and pay bills with bitcoin at the best rates, fastest speed and lowest cost.

Investors: KfW Banking Group, Digital Currency Group

Headquartered:

Country: Netherlands

company Bitt: $16.0 million - Series A

31-Mar-2016 | Exchange

Description: The Bitt wallet provides a quick, secure and easy way to manage your funds, giving you freedom to do more with your money.

Investors: Overstock

Headquartered: Christ Church

Country: Barbados

company Stratumn: $0.7 million - Seed

30-Mar-2016 | Financial Services

Description: Proof of Process Technology helps companies and organizations to trust the millions of processes that connect our world.

Investors: Otium Venture, Eric Larchevêque

Headquartered: Paris

Country: France

company Rootstock: $1.0 million - Seed

21-Mar-2016 | Financial Services

Description: RSK is the first open-source smart contract platform with a 2-way peg to Bitcoin that also rewards the Bitcoin miners via merge-mining, allowing them to actively participate in the Smart Contract revolution.

Investors: Bitmain Technology, Coinsilium, Digital Currency Group

Headquartered: Buenos Aires

Country: Argentina

company Elliptic: $5.0 million - Series A

21-Mar-2016 | Wallet

Description: Elliptic identify illicit activity on the Bitcoin blockchain and provide actionable intelligence to financial institutions and law enforcement agencies.

Investors: Paladin Capital Group, Santander InnoVentures, KRW Schindler, Digital Currency Group, Octopus Ventures

Headquartered: London

Country: United Kingdom

company Chronicled: $3.42 million - Seed

9-Mar-2016 | Infrastructure

Description: Chronicled is an open approach that enables quick and seamless interactions with physical objects and locations.

Investors: Mandra Capital, Pantera Capital, Colbeck Capital Management

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Keza: $0.36 million - Pre-Seed

2-Mar-2016 | Financial Services

Description: Keza is an app that enables you to invest in US and other international stock markets in the most convenient way.

Investors: Jason Calacanis, Digital Currency Group

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Ribbit.me: $1.5 million - Seed

26-Feb-2016 | Financial Services

Investors: Hayaat Group

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company Chainalysis: $1.6 million - Seed

19-Feb-2016 | Financial Services

Description: Chainalysis products are targeted at spotting connections between entities on the Bitcoin blockchain. Chainalysis help Bitcoin businesses detect fraud and prevent money laundering, they help banks put in place adequate controls to bank Bitcoin businesses.

Investors: Point Nine Capital, Techstars, Digital Currency Group, Funders Club, Converge VP

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company Simplex: $7.0 million - Series A

4-Feb-2016 | Financial Services

Description: Simplex provides Bitcoin exchanges, broker websites and wallet applications with a fully protected fraud-free platform for selling Bitcoins via credit card.

Investors: Bitmain, Cumberland Mining, FundersClub, Undisclosed angel investors

Headquartered: Tel Aviv

Country: Israel

company SurBTC: $0.3 million - Seed

4-Feb-2016 | Exchange

Description: SurBTC buy and sell Bitcoins in Chili and Colombia.

Investors: Digital Currency Group, Sauzalito Ventures, Fernando Barros

Headquartered: Santiago de Chile

Country: Chile

company Blockstream: $55.0 million - Series A

3-Feb-2016 | Infrastructure

Description: Blockstream is the leading provider of blockchain technologies, on the forefront of work in cryptography and distributed systems. From fraud to counterfeiting, from security to confidentiality, from accountability to transparency, our mission is to solve problems that undermine trust in todays financial systems.

Investors: AXA Strategic Ventures, Digital Garage, Horizons Ventures. AME Cloud Ventures, Blockchain Capital, Future\Perfect Ventures

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

Civic: $2.75 million - Series Seed

1-Feb-2016 | Identity

Description: Civic executive team brings excellence and industry expertise to our identity verification and identity theft protection service organization.

Investors: Pantera, DCG, Blockchain Capital

Headquartered: Palo Alto

Country: USA

company SatoshiPay: $0.39 million - Seed

25-Jan-2016 | Financial Services

Description: SatoshiPay is a Bitcoin micropayment service.

Investors: Coinsilium, FastForward Innovations

Headquartered: London

Country: United Kingdom

company Digital Asset Holdings: $50.0 million -

22-Jan-2016 | Financial Services

Description: Blockchain technology company founded by Blythe Masters, a former executive at JPMorgan Chase.

Investors: ABN AMRO, Accenture, ASX Limited, BNP Paribas, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Citi, CME Ventures, Deutsche Börse Group, ICAP, J.P. Morgan, Santander InnoVentures, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), and The PNC Financial Services Group Inc.

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company Gem: $7.1 million - Series A

6-Jan-2016 | Financial services

Description: Gem is a blockchain API service, aiming to bring blockchain technology and smart contracts into the mainstream.

Investors: Pelion Venture Partners, with KEC Ventures, Blockchain Capital, Digital Currency Group, RRE Ventures, Tamarisk Global, Drummond Road Capital, Tekton Ventures, Amplify.LA, Danmar Capital, James Joaquin

Headquartered: Venice

Country: United States

company Zebpay: $1.0 million - Series A

6-Jan-2016 | Wallet

Description: Zebpay is an online Bitcoin wallet. It provides buy and sell brokerage services in India.

Investors: Amit Jindal, Arjun Handa, Nagendra Chaudhary

Headquartered: India

Country: India

company Streami: $2.0 million - Seed

24-Dec-2015 | Financial Services

Investors: Shinhan Bank, Shinhan Data Systems, ICB, Bluepoint Partners

Headquartered: South Korea

Country: South Korea

company BTCS: $1.45 million -

22-Dec-2015 | Mining

Description: BTCS Inc. operates a beta ecommerce marketplace. It hosts an online ecommerce marketplace where consumers could purchase merchandise using digital currencies, such as bitcoin, litecoin, and dogecoin. The company was formerly known as Bitcoin Shop, Inc. and changed its name to BTCS Inc. in July 2015. BTCS Inc. is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

Investors: Cavalry Fund I LP

Headquartered: Virginia

Country: United States

company Purse.io: $1 million - Seed

7-Dec-2015 | Payment processor

Description: Purse raised $1 million for its secret project "Tritium".

Investors: Digital Currency Group

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Bitwage: $0.76 million - Seed

19-Nov-2015 | Financial Services

Description: Bitwage create solutions for remote workers looking for work and to optimally receive their wages. Bitwage offer unique jobs, flexible distributions, reduced payroll costs and increased fulfillment speeds.

Investors: Orange Telecom, Draper Associates, Cloud Money Ventures, Saeed Amidi

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Align Commerce: $12.5 million - Series A

17-Nov-2015 | Financial Services

Investors: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Digital Currency Group, FS Venture Capital, Pantera Capital, Recruit Ventures Partners, Silicon Valley Bank Ventures

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Zapchain: $0.35 million - Seed

6-Nov-2015 | Payment processor

Investors: Adam Draper, Tim Draper, Boost Bitcoin Fund

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Factom: $0.4 million - Seed

14-Oct-2015 | Infrastructure

Investors: Kuala Innovations

Headquartered: Texas

Country: United States

company ScoreChain: $0.57 million - Seed

12-Oct-2015 | Financial Services

Description: Scorechain is a Luxembourgish company started in 2015 and providing Bitcoin and Blockchain services to the Bitcoin stakeholders.

Investors: Undisclosed

Headquartered: Luxembourg

Country: Luxembourg

company Orb: $2.3 million - Seed

6-Oct-2015 | Financial Services

Investors: Adways Inc, Ceres, Monex Ventures, SBI Investment

Headquartered: Tokyo

Country: Japan

company Coinplug: $5 million - Second

2-Oct-2015 | Universal

Description: Coinplug provides various Bitcoin exchange platforms such as a Bitcoin exchange marketplace, electronic wallet service, and online POS Point-of-Sales service.

Investors: KB Investment, SBI Investment, Atinum Investment Co. Ltd.

Headquartered: Seoul

Country: South Korea

company Safe Cash Payment Technologies: $1.12 million - Seed

29-Sep-2015 | Financial Services

Description: Safe Cash is a state-of-the-art digital payment technology that is available to banks, merchants and consumers, worldwide.

Investors: Bialla Ventures, Naveen Jain, Vuk Bulajic, Vinh Vo, Chris Kitze

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Pey: $0.34 million - Seed

17-Sep-2015 | Infrastructure

Investors: Marc Junker, Frank Biedka, Hartmut A Borchers, J�rgen Pleteit, Olav Vier genannt Strawe, Tobias Jankowiak

Headquartered: Hanover

Country: Germany

company Coinalytics: $1.1 million - Seed

10-Sep-2015 | Financial Services

Description: Coinalytics is a venture-backed startup based in Palo Alto pursuing the mission of providing real-time intelligence for decentralized blockchain platforms.

Investors: The Hive

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Abra: $12 million - First

10-Sep-2015 | Financial Services

Description: Abra is making cash mobile. Send money to any smartphone instantly, privately, and securely, with or without a bank account.

Investors: Arbor Ventures, RRE Ventures, First Round Capital

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Case: $1 million - Seed

10-Sep-2015 | Wallet

Description: Case is the worlds most secure and easy-to-use bitcoin wallet.

Investors: Future Perfect Ventures

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company Chain: $30 million - Second

9-Sep-2015 | Infrastructure

Description: Chain Core is enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure that enables organizations to build better financial services from the ground up.

Investors: Visa, Nasdaq, Citi Ventures, Capital One, Fiserv, Orange, Khosla Ventures, RRE Ventures, Thrive Capital, SV Angel, David Coulter, Peter Diamandis and Kevin Ryan.

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company ShapeShift: $1.6 million - First

8-Sep-2015 | Exchange

Description: Trade any leading blockchain asset for any other. Protection by design. No account needed.

Investors: Digital Currency Group, Roger Ver, Bruce Fenton, Michael Terpin, Trevor Koverko

Headquartered: Zug

Country: Switzerland

company Paymium: $1.12 million - Seed

2-Sep-2015 | Payment Processor

Description: Paymium is the first European Bitcoin marketplace compliant with EU regulations on payment services.

Investors: Newfund, Kima Ventures, Galitt

Headquartered: Paris

Country: France

company Filament: $5 million - First

18-Aug-2015 | Infrastructure

Description: Filament lets you build a connected business without becoming an expert on security, scalability, or network stacks.

Investors: Bullpen Capital, Verizon Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Digital Currency Group, Haystack, Working Lab Capital, TechStars

Headquartered: Reno

Country: United States

company BitFlyer: $4 million - First

12-Aug-2015 | Exchange

Description: BitFlyer allows you to easily trade virtual currency bit coins at a transparent price. Market checking is also possible on the chart. BitFlyer supports every transaction on your bit coin and contributes to the spread of bit coins.

Investors: Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co, Venture Labo Investment Co, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital Co, Dentsu Digital Holdings Inc, Quick Corp

Headquartered: Tokyo

Country: Japan

company Challenger Deep (Kaiko): $1.86 million - Seed

23-Jul-2015 | Infrastructure

Investors: Pascal Gauthier

Headquartered: London

Country: United Kingdom

company BitX: $4 million - Second

21-Jul-2015 | Universal

Investors: The Naspers Group, Digital Currency Group

Headquartered: Singapore

Country: Singapore

company ShoCard: $1.5 million - Seed

17-Jul-2015 | Infrastructure

Investors: AME Cloud Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Enspire Capital, Morado Venture Partners.

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company TabTrader: $0.1 million - Seed

16-Jul-2015 | Financial Services

Investors: IMPACT

Headquartered: Amsterdam

Country: The Netherlands

company BitFury: $20 million - Third

9-Jul-2015 | Mining

Investors: The Georgian Co-Investment Fund, DRW Venture Capital, iTech Capital

Headquartered: Amsterdam

Country: The Netherlands

company Ascribe: $2 million - Seed

24-Jun-2015 | Financial Services

Investors: Earlybird Venture Capital, Digital Currency Group, Freelands Ventures, angel investors

Headquartered: Berlin

Country: Germany

company Vogogo: $12.5 million - Second

24-Jun-2015 | Payment Processor

Investors: Beacon Securities, Clarus Securities, Salmon Partners

Headquartered: Calgary

Country: Canada

company Case: $1.25 million - Seed

18-Jun-2015 | Wallet

Investors: Future\Perfect Ventures, RRE Ventures, The Rochester Institute of Technology Fund, High Line Venture Partners

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company Reveal: $1.5 million - Seed

16-Jun-2015 | Financial Services

Investors: Mike Hirshland, Boost VC, Digital Currency Group, the Stanford StartX Fund, Barry Silbert

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company OpenBazaar: $1 million - Seed

11-Jun-2015 | Financial Services

Investors: Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures, William Mougayar, angel investor

Headquartered: Unknown

Country: Unknown

company Symbiont: $1.25 million - Seed

9-Jun-2015 | Financial Services

Investors: Duncan Niederauer, Matt Andresen

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company Mirror: $8.8 million - First

3-Jun-2015 | Financial Services

Investors: Route 66 Ventures, Battery Ventures, Crosslink Capital, RRE Ventures, Tim Draper

Headquartered: Palo Alto

Country: United States

company Bitbond: $0.67 million - Seed

20-May-2015 | Financial Services

Description: Bitbond is the first global marketplace lending platform for small business loans.

Investors: Point Nine Capital, Christian Vollmann

Headquartered: Berlin

Country: Germany

company Ripple Labs: $32 million - First

19-May-2015 | Financial services

Investors: US futures, CME Group, Seagate Technology, AME Cloud Ventures, ChinaRock Capital Management, China Growth Capital, Wicklow Capital, Bitcoin Opportunity Corp, Core Innovation Capital, Route 66 Ventures, RRE Ventures, Santander InnoVentures, Vast Ventures, Venture 51

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company itBit: $25 million - First

7-May-2015 | Exchange

Investors: RRE Ventures, Liberty City Ventures, Jay W Jordan II, James Pallotta

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company Cryex: $10 million - First

7-May-2015 | Exchange

Investors: White Star Capital, Northzone Ventures

Headquartered: Stockholm

Country: Sweden

company Satoshi Citadel Industries Inc.: $0.1 million - Seed

6-May-2015 | Universal

Investors: Joe Maristela

Headquartered: Makati

Country: Philippines

company Hedgy: $1.2 million - Seed

30-Apr-2015 | Financial services

Investors: Tim Draper, Marc Benioff, Sand Hill Ventures, Adam Draper, Brayton Williams

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Circle Internet Financial: $50 million - Third

30-Apr-2015 | Universal

Investors: Goldman Sachs, IDG Capital Partners, Breyer Capital, General Catalyst Partners, Accel Partners

Headquartered: Boston

Country: United States

company Gem: $1.3 million - Second

2-Apr-2015 | Financial services

Investors: KEC Ventures,_First Round Capital,_RRE Ventures, Robert Wolfson

Headquartered: Venice

Country: United States

company PeerNova: $5 million - First

31-Mar-2015 | Infrastructure

Investors: OverStock

Headquartered: San Jose

Country: United States

company Bitt: $1.5 million - Seed

30-Mar-2015 | Exchange

Investors: Avatar Capital

Headquartered: Christ Church

Country: Barbados

company TabTrader: $0.07 million - Seed

20-Mar-2015 | Financial services

Investors: Rockstart

Headquartered: Amsterdam

Country: The Netherlands

company Coinigy: $0.1 million - Seed

19-Mar-2015 | Exchange

Investors: Undisclosed

Headquartered: Milwaukee

Country: United States

company 21 Inc (21e6): $116 million - First

10-Mar-2015 | Universal

Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective, Khosla Ventures, RRE Ventures and Yuan Capital

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company ShapeShift: $0.53 million - Seed

10-Mar-2015 | Exchange

Description: Trade any leading blockchain asset for any other. Protection by Design. No Account Needed.

Investors: Barry Silbert and Roger Ver

Headquartered: Zug

Country: Switzerland

company Simplex: $0.4 million - Grant

1-Mar-2015 | Financial Services

Description: Simplex focuses on fraud prevention in Bitcoin purchases made with credit cards. It's currently partnered with Genesis Mining, CoinMama, and Bits of Gold.

Investors: Office of the Chief Scientist of Israel

Headquartered: Tel Aviv

Country: Israel

company Ledger: $1.5 million - Seed

19-Feb-2015 | Wallet

Description: Security solutions for cryptocurrencies and blockchains.

Investors: XAnge Private Equity, Hi-Pay (Hi-Media group), Fred Potter, Thibaut Faur�s Fustel de Coulanges, Alain Tingaud Innovations, Pascal Gauthier

Headquartered: Paris

Country: France

company BitPesa: $1.1 million - Second

9-Feb-2015 | Payment Processor

Investors: Pantera Capital, Bitcoin Opportunity Corp, Crypto Currency Partners, Future/Perfect Ventures, Stephens Investment Management

Headquartered: Nairobi

Country: Kenya

company HashRabbit: $0.5 million - Seed

4-Feb-2015 | Infrastructure

Investors: _Draper Associates, VegasTechFund

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company KnCMiner: $15 million - Second

3-Feb-2015 | Mining

Investors: Accel Partners, GP Bullhound, Creandum, Martin Wattin

Headquartered: Stockholm

Country: Sweden

company NeuCoin: $1.25 million - Seed

3-Feb-2015 | Financial Services

Investors: Patrik Stymne, Emil Michael, Henrik Kjellberg

Headquartered: Paris

Country: France

company Ziftr: $0.85 million - Seed

3-Feb-2015 | Financial Services

Investors: 10x Venture Partners

Headquartered: Milford

Country: United States

company Bonafide (Bonifide.io): $0.85 million - Seed

2-Feb-2015 | Financial Services

Investors: Quest Venture Partners, Crypto Currency Partners, AngelList Bitcoin Syndicate

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company BitFlyer: $1.1 million - Seed

28-Jan-2015 | Exchange

Description: BitFlyer allows you to easily trade virtual currency bit coins at a transparent price. Market checking is also possible on the chart. BitFlyer supports every transaction on your bit coin and contributes to the spread of bit coins.

Investors: Bitcoin Opportunity Corp, RSP Fund No. 5, GMO Venture Partners

Headquartered: Tokyo

Country: Japan

company Colu: $2.5 million - Seed

27-Jan-2015 | Infrastructure

Investors: Aleph, Spark Capital, Bitcoin Opportunity Corp, Box Group

Headquartered: Tel Aviv

Country: Israel

company Anycoin Direct: $0.56 million - Seed

21-Jan-2015 | Exchange

Investors: Undisclosed

Headquartered: Veghel

Country: The Netherlands

company Coinbase: $75 million - Third

20-Jan-2015 | Universal

Description: Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a bitcoin wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with the new digital currency bitcoin. We're based in San Francisco, California.

Bitcoin is the world's most widely used alternative currency with a total market cap of approximately $3.5 billion. The bitcoin network is made up of thousands of computers run by individuals all over the world.

The service aims to be the easiest way to get started with Bitcoin. Its service is modeled to provide an experience familiar to those who are comfortable using PayPal.

Investors: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), USAA, BBVA, DoCoMo, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) Growth Fund, Tim Draper, Union Square Ventures, Ribbit Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, Vikram Pandit, CEO Tom Glocer

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Trustatom: $0.1 million - Seed

20-Jan-2015 | Financial Services

Investors: _Brian Cartmell,_Vinny Lingham

Headquartered: Vancouver

Country: Canada

company Ciphrex: $0.5 million - First

15-Jan-2015 | Wallet

Investors: Undisclosed

Headquartered: San Diego

Country: United States

company BlockCypher: $3.1 million - Seed

14-Jan-2015 | Infrastructure

Investors: Tim Draper, AME Cloud Ventures, Boost VC, 500 Startups, Crypto Currency Partners, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Nasir Jones, Jesse Draper, Shawn Byers, Fenox Venture Capital, Streamlined Ventures, Upside Partnership, Foundation Capital

Headquartered: San Mateo

Country: United States

company Airbitz: $0.03 million - Seed

12-Jan-2015 | Infrastructure

Investors: Plug and Play Tech Center

Headquartered: San Diego

Country: United States

company LibertyX: $0.4 million - Seed

7-Jan-2015 | Financial Services

Investors: Project 11

Headquartered: Boston

Country: United States

company GetGems: $0.4 million - Seed

5-Jan-2015 | Financial Services

Investors: Magma VC

Headquartered: Tel Aviv

Country: Israel

company CoinOutlet: $0.1 million - Seed

1-Jan-2015 | Financial Services

Investors: Bitcoin Shop

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company Bitreserve (Uphold): $9.6 million - Second

30-Dec-2014 | Wallet

Investors: Undisclosed

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company BitGold: $3.5 million - Third

24-Dec-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: PowerOne Capital, Soros Brothers Investments, Sandstorm Gold, PortVesta Holdings

Headquartered: Toronto

Country: Canada

company PeerNova: $8.6 million - First

17-Dec-2014 | Mining

Investors: _Mosaik Partners, Steve Case, Crypto Currency Partners, Atiq Raza, Ashar Aziz_

Headquartered: San Jose

Country: United States

company BitGold: $0.8 million - Seed

5-Dec-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Undisclosed

Headquartered: Toronto

Country: Canada

company ChangeTip: $3.5 million - First

2-Dec-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Pantera Capital, 500 Startups, Boldstart Ventures, CryptoCurrency Partners, Idealab

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company DigiByte_: $0.25 million - Seed

2-Dec-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Undisclosed

Headquartered: Santa Monica

Country: United States

company GetGems: $0.6 million - Seed

1-Dec-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Undisclosed

Headquartered: Tel Aviv

Country: Israel

company Purse.io: $0.3 million - Seed

27-Nov-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Roger Ver, Bobby Lee, Terrence Yang, FundersClub, StrongVC

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Blockstream: $21 million - First

17-Nov-2014 | Infrastructure

Investors: Reid Hoffman, Khosla Ventures, Real Ventures, Crypto Currency Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Future\Perfect Ventures, Mosaic Ventures, Ribbit Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, Nicolas Berggruen, Max Levchin, Ray Ozzie, Danny Hillis, Embrace

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company OneName: $1.5 million - Seed

16-Nov-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Union Square Ventures, Naval Ravikant, SV Angel

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company Dogetipbot: $0.45 million - Seed

5-Nov-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Blackbird Ventures, Scott and Cyan Banister, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Redding

Country: United States

company CoinOutlet: $0.05 million - Seed

1-Nov-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: BitcoinShop

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company Spondoolies-Tech: $5 million - Second

24-Oct-2014 | Mining

Investors: Agile Wings, BRM Group, Genesis Partners, Olivier Janssens, Eden Shochat, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Kiryat Gat Israel

Country: Israel

company BitLendingClub: $0.25 million - Seed

24-Oct-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: LAUNCHub

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Bitnet: $14.5 million - First

20-Oct-2014 | Payment Processor

Investors: Highland Capital Partners, Rakuten, James Pallotta, Stuart Peterson, Bill McKiernan, Stephens Investment Management, Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, Commerce Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Buchanan Investment

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company AlphaPoint: $1.35 million - Seed

17-Oct-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Ben Franklin Technology Partners, Robin Hood Ventures, Scott Becker, Gabriel Weinberg

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company Coinsetter (now Kraken): $1.4 million - Second

16-Oct-2014 | Exchange

Investors: Unknown

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company BitFlyer: $0.24 million - Seed

10-Oct-2014 | Exchange

Description: BitFlyer allows you to easily trade virtual currency bit coins at a transparent price. Market checking is also possible on the chart. BitFlyer supports every transaction on your bit coin and contributes to the spread of bit coins.

Investors: Bitcoin Opportunity Corp.

Headquartered: Tokyo

Country: Japan

company Libra: $0.5 million - Seed

10-Oct-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Liberty City Ventures, James Pallotta, Ben Davenport, CrossCoin Ventures

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Melotic: $1.18 million - Seed

10-Oct-2014 | Exchange

Investors: Ceyuan Ventures, Lightspeed China, Bitcoin Opportunity Corp, 500 Startups, Marc Van Der Chijs

Headquartered: Hong Kong

Country: China

company Swarm: $0.12 million - Seed

10-Oct-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Techstars

Headquartered: Palo Alto

Country: United States

company Devign Lab: $0.2 million - Seed

9-Oct-2014 | Universal

Investors: K Cube Ventures

Headquartered: Seoul

Country: South Korea

company BitFury: $20 million - Second

9-Oct-2014 | Mining

Investors: Bill Tai, Bob Dykes, Georgian Co-Investment Fund, Lars Rasmussen

Headquartered: Amsterdam

Country: The Netherlands

company Coinplug: $2.5 million - First

8-Oct-2014 | Universal

Investors: Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Bokwang Investment Corp, Capstone Partners, DSC Investment, Tim Draper

Headquartered: Seoul

Country: South Korea

company Ciphrex: $0.3 million -

7-Oct-2014 | Wallet

Investors: Undisclosed

Headquartered: San Diego

Country: United States

company Blockchain: $30.5 million - First

7-Oct-2014 | Wallet

Investors: Lightspeed Ventures, Wicklow Capital, Mosaic Ventures, Prudence Holdings, Future Perfect Ventures, Rafael Corrales, Amit Jhawar, Nat Brown, Individual Investors

Headquartered: London

Country: United Kingdom

company SolidX: $3 million - First

7-Oct-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Liberty City Ventures, James Pallotta, Red Sea Ventures and Red Swan Ventures

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company SNAPCARD: $1.5 million - Seed

6-Oct-2014 | Payment Processor

Investors: Tim Draper, Crypto Currency Partners, Insikt Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Boost VC, SeedInvest, Silicon Valley Angels, Fortress Investment Group, Individual Investors

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company HashRabbit: $0.2 million -

1-Oct-2014 | Infrastructure

Investors: _VegasTechFund

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Bonafide (Bonifide.io): $ million - Seed

1-Oct-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Quest Venture Partners

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company Coinapult: $0.78 million - Seed

30-Sep-2014 | Wallet

Investors: Bitcoin Opportunity Corp, Roger Ver, FirstMark Capital, Erik Voorhees, Ira Miller

Headquartered: Panama City

Country: Panama

company Coinify: $0.34 million - Seed

25-Sep-2014 | Universal

Investors: SEED Capital

Headquartered: Copenhagen

Country: Denmark

company CoinPlus: $0.22 million - Seed

18-Sep-2014 | Payment Processor

Investors: Undisclosed

Headquartered: Luxembourg

Country: Luxembourg

company Koinify: $1 million - First

17-Sep-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: IDG Capital Partners, zPark Ventures, Danhua Capital, Brock Pierce, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Mountain View

Country: United States

company Gem: $2 million - First

17-Sep-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Mesa Ventures,_Idealab,_James Joaquin, Crypto Currency Partners

Headquartered: Venice

Country: United States

company BitGo: $ million -

4-Sep-2014 | Infrastructure

Investors: BitFury Capital

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company KnCMiner: $14 million - First

4-Sep-2014 | Mining

Investors: Creandum

Headquartered: Stockholm

Country: Sweden

company Korbit: $3 million - First

25-Aug-2014 | Universal

Investors: Pantera Capital, BAM Ventures, Bitcoin Opportunity Corp, Tim Draper, Pietro Dova, Strong Ventures, Softbank Ventures Korea

Headquartered: Seoul

Country: South Korea

company Chain: $9.5 million - First

20-Aug-2014 | Infrastructure

Investors: Khosla Ventures, Pantera Capital, Barry Silbert, RRE Ventures, SV Angel, Thrive Capital, 500 Startups, Kevin Ryan, Scott Banister, Homebrew

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Chain: $4.2 million - Seed

20-Aug-2014 | Infrastructure

Investors: RRE Ventures, SV Angel, Thrive Capital

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company BitX: $0.82 million - Seed

19-Aug-2014 | Universal

Investors: Bitcoin Opportunity Corp, Carol Realini, Ariadne Capital

Headquartered: Singapore

Country: Singapore

company BlockTrail: $0.65 million - Seed

18-Aug-2014 | Infrastructure

Investors: Lev Leviev

Headquartered: Amsterdam

Country: The Netherlands

company Bitbond: $0.27 million - Seed

13-Aug-2014 | Financial Services

Description: Bitbond is the first global marketplace lending platform for small business loans.

Investors: Point Nine Capital, Nelson Holzner

Headquartered: Berlin

Country: Germany

company Unocoin: $0.25 million - Seed

11-Aug-2014 | Universal

Investors: Bitcoin Opportunity Corp.

Headquartered: Bangalore

Country: India

company Vogogo: $8.5 million - First

5-Aug-2014 | Payment Processor

Investors: Beacon Securities, Clarus Securities, Salmon Partners, Canaccord Genuity Corp, Cormark Securities Inc.

Headquartered: Calgary

Country: Canada

company Volabit: $0.75 million - Seed

23-Jul-2014 | Exchange

Investors: Tim Draper, Boost VC, Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, individual investors

Headquartered: Puerto Vallarta

Country: Mexico

company BitFlyer: $1.6 million - Seed

22-Jul-2014 | Exchange

Description: BitFlyer allows you to easily trade virtual currency bit coins at a transparent price. Market checking is also possible on the chart. BitFlyer supports every transaction on your bit coin and contributes to the spread of bit coins.

Investors: Unnamed Japan-based venture capital firm

Headquartered: Tokyo

Country: Japan

company OneName: $0.12 million - Seed

16-Jul-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Y Combinator

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company Elliptic: $2 million - Seed

16-Jul-2014 | Wallet

Investors: Octopus Investments

Headquartered: London

Country: United Kingdom

company TradeBlock: $2.8 million - Seed

16-Jul-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Barry Silbert, Devonshire Investors, FinTech Collective, Y Combinator, Data Collective, Bitcoin Opportunity Corp., Chris Fisher, Hard Yaka

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company BitGold: $1 million - Seed

14-Jul-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Massimo Agostinelli_

Headquartered: Toronto

Country: Canada

company Safello: $0.25 million - Seed

10-Jul-2014 | Exchange

Investors: Bitcoin Opportunity Corp

Headquartered: Stockholm

Country: Sweden

company Xapo: $20 million - First

8-Jul-2014 | Wallet

Investors: Index Ventures, Greylock Partners, Emergence Capital Partners, Yuri Milner, Max Levchin, Jerry Yang, Winklevoss Capital, David Marcus, Crypto Currency Partners

Headquartered: Palo Alto

Country: United States

company Expresscoin: $0.15 million - Seed

1-Jul-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Bitcoin Shop

Headquartered: Santa Monica

Country: United States

company BlockScore: $2 million - Seed

26-Jun-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Battery Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Boost VC, New Atlantic Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator

Headquartered: Palo Alto

Country: United States

company BitPagos: $0.6 million - Seed

17-Jun-2014 | Payment Processor

Investors: Pantera Capital, Boost Bitcoin Fund, 8capita, South Ventures, NXTP Labs, Tim Draper, Barry Silbert, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Palo Alto

Country: United States

company BitGo: $12 million - First

16-Jun-2014 | Infrastructure

Investors: Redpoint Ventures, Bitcoin Opportunity Corporation, Radar Partners, Liberty City Ventures, Crypto Currency Partners, A-Grade Investments, Jeffrey S. Skoll, Bill Lee, Founders Fund, Eric Hahn, Bridgescale Partners

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company HashPlex: $0.4 million - Seed

12-Jun-2014 | Mining

Investors: Barry Silbert, Jason Prado, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Seattle

Country: United States

company Coinfloor: $0.2 million -

6-Jun-2014 | Exchange

Investors: Passion Capital, Taavet Hinrikus, Adam Knight

Headquartered: London

Country: United Kingdom

company BlockScore: $0.03 million - Seed

1-Jun-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners

Headquartered: Palo Alto

Country: United States

company BitFury: $20 million - First

30-May-2014 | Mining

Investors: Binary Financial, Crypto Currency Partners, Georgian Co-Investment Fund, Queensbridge Venture Partners and ZAD Investment Company, Jonathan Teo, Bill Tai

Headquartered: Amsterdam

Country: The Netherlands

company Bitex.la: $2 million - First

30-May-2014 | Exchange

Investors: Undisclosed UK-based investor

Headquartered: Buenos Aires

Country: Argentina

company Simplex: $1.0 million - Seed

28-May-2014 | Financial Services

Description: Simplex focuses on fraud prevention in Bitcoin purchases made with credit cards. It's currently partnered with Genesis Mining, CoinMama, and Bits of Gold.

Investors: Agile Wings, Yaron Lemelbaum, DRW

Headquartered: Tel Aviv

Country: Israel

company Huobi: $10 million - First

27-May-2014 | Exchange

Investors: Sequoia Capital China

Headquartered: Beijing

Country: China

BitPay: $30 million - First

13-May-2014 | Payment Processor

Investors: Index Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Founders Fund, Horizons Ventures, RRE Ventures, Sir Richard Branson, TTV Capital, Jerry Yang, Richard Branson

Headquartered: Atlanta

Country: United States

company Mirror: $4 million - Seed

7-May-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Unknown

Headquartered: Palo Alto

Country: United States

company Vaurum (Mirror): $4 million - Seed

7-May-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Battery Ventures, Tim Draper, Steve Case, QueensBridge Venture Partners

Headquartered: Palo Alto

Country: United States

company ChangeTip: $0.75 million - Seed

5-May-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: CryptoCurrency Partners

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company GogoCoin: $0.1 million - Seed

21-Apr-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: 500 Startups

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Bonafide (Bonifide.io): $0.1 million - Seed

21-Apr-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: 500 Startups

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company Coinalytics: $0.1 million - Seed

21-Apr-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: 500 Startups

Headquartered: Mountain View

Country: United States

company Neuroware: $0.1 million - Seed

21-Apr-2014 | Wallet

Investors: 500 Startups

Headquartered: Mountain View

Country: United States

company Monetsu: $0.1 million - Seed

21-Apr-2014 | Payment Processor

Investors: 500 Startups

Headquartered: Mountain View

Country: United States

company ChangeTip: $ million - Seed

4-Apr-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: BOLDstart Ventures

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Coinplug: $0.4 million - Seed

3-Apr-2014 | Universal

Investors: Draper Fisher Jurvetson Partners, Key Initiatives Technical Entrepreneur, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Seoul

Country: South Korea

company PayStand: $1 million - Seed

2-Apr-2014 | Payment Processor

Investors: Cervin Ventures, Serra Ventures, Central Coast Angels, TiE LaunchPad

Headquartered: Santa Cruz

Country: United States

company BTC.sx (Magnr): $0.3 million - Seed

1-Apr-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Seedcoin, Joe Lee

Headquartered: Singapore

Country: Singapore

company Bitreserve (Uphold): $5 million - First

31-Mar-2014 | Wallet

Investors: Undisclosed

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company GoCoin: $1.5 million - First

26-Mar-2014 | Payment Processor

Investors: Bitcoin Shop, Crypto Currency Partners, Owen Van Natta, Demarest, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Singapore

Country: Singapore

company Circle Internet Financial: $17 million - Second

26-Mar-2014 | Universal

Investors: Breyer Capital, Accel Partners, General Catalyst Partners, Oak Investment Partners, Pantera Capital, Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Boston

Country: United States

company Hive: $0.19 million - Seed

26-Mar-2014 | Wallet

Investors: Roger Ver, Seedcoin

Headquartered: Hong Kong

Country: China

company Payward, Inc. (Kraken): $5 million - First

25-Mar-2014 | Exchange

Investors: Hummingbird Ventures, Trace Mayer, Bitcoin Opportunity Fund.

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Koinify: $0.45 million - Seed

25-Mar-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Zhenfund (Sequoia China Angel), Ceyuan Ventures, Crypto Currency Partners

Headquartered: Mountain View

Country: United States

company Exchange of the Americas (meXBT): $0.34 million - Seed

18-Mar-2014 | Exchange

Investors: Seedcoin, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Mexico City

Country: Mexico

company OKCoin: $10 million - First

16-Mar-2014 | Exchange

Investors: Ceyuan, Mandra Capital, VenturesLab, PreAngel, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Beijing

Country: China

company Xapo: $20 million - First

13-Mar-2014 | Wallet

Investors: Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, Ribbit Capital, Slow Ventures

Headquartered: Palo Alto

Country: United States

company Tembusu: $0.24 million - Seed

12-Mar-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Individual Investors

Headquartered: Singapore

Country: Singapore

company CoinSimple: $0.18 million - Seed

7-Mar-2014 | Payment Processor

Investors: Seedcoin, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Hong Kong

Country: China

company Expresscoin: $ million - Seed

1-Mar-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Crypto Currency Partners, Demarest

Headquartered: Santa Monica

Country: United States

company Coinsetter (now Kraken): $0.5 million - First

18-Feb-2014 | Exchange

Investors: Crypto Currency Partners

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company Safello: $0.6 million - Seed

17-Feb-2014 | Exchange

Investors: Roger Ver, Nicolas Cary, Eric Voorhees, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Stockholm

Country: Sweden

company Elliptic: $ million - Seed

10-Feb-2014 | Wallet

Investors: Seedcamp

Headquartered: London

Country: United Kingdom

company BitSim: $0.5 million - Seed

4-Feb-2014 | Universal

Investors: Seedcoin, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Hong Kong

Country: China

company Cryptopay: $0.08 million - Seed

4-Feb-2014 | Payment processor

Investors: Seedcoin

Headquartered: London

Country: United Kingdom

company Spondoolies-Tech: $1.5 million - Bridge

1-Feb-2014 | Mining

Investors: Genesis Partners, BRM, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Kiryat Gat Israel

Country: Israel

company Gliph: $0.03 million - Seed

31-Jan-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Semil Shah

Headquartered: Portland

Country: United States

company Tangible Cryptography (BitSimple): $0.6 million - Seed

21-Jan-2014 | Exchange

Investors: Undisclosed

Headquartered: Wilmington

Country: United States

company Korbit: $0.4 million - Seed

20-Jan-2014 | Universal

Investors: Strong Ventures, Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, Tim Draper, David Lee, Naval Ravikant, Michael Yang, Jay H. Eum, Pietro Dova

Headquartered: South Korea

Country: South Korea

company Exchange of the Americas (meXBT): $0.15 million - Seed

15-Jan-2014 | Exchange

Investors: Seedcoin, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Mexico City

Country: Mexico

company Bitex.la: $2 million - Seed

15-Jan-2014 | Exchange

Investors: Undisclosed

Headquartered: Buenos Aires

Country: Argentina

company Bitnet: $ million - Seed

1-Jan-2014 | Payment Processor

Investors: Commerce Ventures

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company COINFIRMA: $0.5 million - Seed

31-Dec-2013 | Financial Services

Investors: Undisclosed Venture Investor(s)

Headquartered: Atlanta

Country: United States

company Payward, Inc. (Kraken): $1.5 million - Seed

20-Dec-2013 | Exchange

Investors: Crypto Currency Partners

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Gliph: $0.13 million - Seed

18-Dec-2013 | Financial Services

Investors: Pantera Capital

Headquartered: Portland

Country: United States

company Coinbase: $25 million - Second

12-Dec-2013 | Universal

Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Ribbit Capital, Union Square Ventures, QueensBridge Venture Partners, Anthony Saleh, Nasir "Nas" Jones

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company CoinJar Pty: $0.5 million - First

2-Dec-2013 | Wallet

Investors: Blackbird Ventures, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Richmond

Country: Australia

company SNAPCARD: $0.06 million -

1-Dec-2013 | Payment processor

Investors: Ioannis Giannaros, Michael Dunworth, Boost VC

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

Bex.io / Spawngrid: $0.5 million - Seed

1-Dec-2013 | Financial Services

Investors: Cross Pacific Capital Partners, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Vancouver

Country: Canada

company Coinplug: $0.4 million - Seed

25-Nov-2013 | Universal

Investors: Silverblue

Headquartered: Seoul

Country: South Korea

company BTC China (Shanghai Satuxi Network): $5 million - First

18-Nov-2013 | Exchange

Investors: Lightspeed China Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Headquartered: Shanghai

Country: China

company 21 Inc (21e6): $5.05 million - First

17-Nov-2013 | Universal

Investors: Individual Investors

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Ripple Labs: $3.5 million - Seed

12-Nov-2013 | Financial Services

Investors: Camp One Ventures, Core Innovation Capital, Google Ventures, IDG Capital Partners, Individual Investors, Venture51

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company itBit: $3.25 million - First

11-Nov-2013 | Exchange

Investors: Canaan Partners, Individual Investors, Liberty City Ventures, RRE Ventures, Jay W. Jordan II, Ben Davenport

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company GoCoin: $0.55 million - Seed

7-Nov-2013 | Payment Processor

Investors: BitAngels, Demarest Ventures, Individual Investors, Ruvento Ventures, Crypto Currency Partners, Gary Stiffelman, Mikael Pawlo, Andrew Frame, Owen Van Natta, David Neuman, Ronnie Wee, Honathan Congdon, Prolific Venture Capital

Headquartered: Singapore

Country: Singapore

company Bitstamp: $10 million - First

31-Oct-2013 | Exchange

Investors: Pantera Capital Management

Headquartered: London

Country: United Kingdom

company Circle Internet Financial: $9 million - First

31-Oct-2013 | Universal

Investors: Accel Partners, General Catalyst Partners, Jim Breyer, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Boston

Country: United States

company GogoCoin: $0.11 million - Seed

9-Oct-2013 | Financial Services

Investors: 500 Startups, Draem Ventures

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company GogoCoin: $0.01 million - Seed

1-Oct-2013 | Financial Services

Investors: Draem Ventures

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Gliph: $0.2 million - Seed

19-Sep-2013 | Financial Services

Investors: Boost Fund, Portland Seed Fund, Rogue Venture Partners, Tim Draper, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Portland

Country: United States

company Coinfloor: $0.1 million - Seed

8-Sep-2013 | Exchange

Investors: Passion Capital, Taavet Hinrikus, Individual Investors

Headquartered: London

Country: United Kingdom

company OKCoin: $1 million - Seed

4-Sep-2013 | Exchange

Investors: Ventures Lab

Headquartered: Beijing

Country: China

company Vaurum (Mirror): $2 million - First

1-Sep-2013 | Exchange

Investors: Boost Fund

Headquartered: Palo Alto

Country: United States

company BitPagos: $0.03 million - Seed

1-Sep-2013 | Payment Processor

Investors: NXTP Labs

Headquartered: Palo Alto

Country: United States

company Buttercoin: $1.25 million - First

1-Sep-2013 | Infrastructure

Investors: Alexis Ohanian, Centralway, FLOODGATE, Google Ventures, Initialized Capital, Rothenberg Ventures, Y Combinator

Headquartered: Palo Alto

Country: United States

company Armory Technologies: $0.6 million - Seed

1-Sep-2013 | Wallet

Investors: Trace Mayer, Jim Smith, Kevin Bombino, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Baltimore

Country: United States

company Digital Currencies FinTech: $1.25 million - First

19-Aug-2013 | Financial Services

Investors: Centralway AG, Floodgate, Google Ventures, Individual Investors, Initialized Capital, Y Combinator

Headquartered: Palo Alto

Country: United States

company Spondoolies-Tech: $4 million - First

1-Aug-2013 | Mining

Investors: Genesis Partners, BRM, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Kiryat Gat Israel

Country: Israel

company Avalon Clones: $3 million - First

22-Jul-2013 | Mining

Investors:

Headquartered: Scottsdale

Country: United States

company Gliph: $0.02 million - Seed

18-May-2013 | Financial Services

Investors:

Headquartered: Portland

Country: United States

BitPay: $2 million - Seed

16-May-2013 | Payment Processor

Investors: A-Grade Investments, Founders Fund, Heisenberg Capital

Headquartered: Atlanta

Country: United States

company Ripple Labs: $3 million - Bridge

14-May-2013 | Financial Services

Investors: Camp One Ventures, Core Innovation Capital, Google Ventures, IDG Capital Partners, Individual Investors, Venture51

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company CoinJar Pty: $0.02 million - Seed

1-May-2013 | Wallet

Investors: AngelCube

Headquartered: Richmond

Country: Australia

company Coinbase: $6.11 million - First

26-Apr-2013 | Universal

Investors: Ribbit Capital, Union Square Ventures, Red Swan Ventures, SV Angel, Interplay Ventures, FundersClub

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Ripple Labs: $2.5 million - Bridge

11-Apr-2013 | Financial Services

Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, FF Angel IV, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Vast Ventures

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company TradeHill: $0.4 million - Seed

1-Mar-2013 | Exchange

Investors: Individual Investors

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company BitGo: $2 million - Seed

1-Mar-2013 | Infrastructure

Investors: Bridgescale Partners, Eric Hahn, Jeff Skoll, Bill Lee, Others Undisclosed

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

BitPay: $0.51 million - Seed

7-Jan-2013 | Payment Processor

Investors: Shakil Khan, Barry Silbert, Roger Ver, Ashton Kutcher, Matt Mullenweg, Ben Davenport, Trace Mayer, Jimmy Furland

Headquartered: Atlanta

Country: United States

company Bitinstant: $1.5 million - First

31-Oct-2012 | Payment Processor

Investors: Winklevoss Capital, David Azar

Headquartered: New York

Country: United States

company Coinbase: $0.6 million - Seed

1-Sep-2012 | Universal

Investors: Alexis Ohanian, Y Combinator, Greg Kidd, Garry Tan, FundersClub

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Gliph: $0.03 million - Seed

3-Jan-2012 | Financial Services

Investors: Portland Seed Fund

Headquartered: Portland

Country: United States

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