Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best San Francisco based Blockchain companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Blockchain industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top San Francisco Blockchain Startups
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Ripple
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Ripple provides one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain.
Kraken
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Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange that provides spot and futures trading between Bitcoin, Ethereum and 40+ other digital assets.
Figure
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Figure is a financial services company leveraging blockchain technology.
QuarkChain
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QuarkChain is a flexible, scalable, and user-oriented blockchain infrastructure by applying blockchain sharding technology. QuarkChain has proved its advanced technology and brought impact in the industry over years.
Bitwise
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Bitwise is a crypto index fund manager for individuals, investment managers, and institutions navigating cryptocurrency.
Coinbase
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Coinbase is an online platform that allows merchants, consumers, and traders to transact with digital currency.
Uphold
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Uphold is a digital wallet and trading platform that enables cryptocurrencies and other assets affordable and accessible for everyone.
Solana
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Solana is a crypto startup that builds and develops crypto apps for decentralized apps and marketplaces.
TRM Labs
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TRM Labs monitors digital asset transactions to protect financial institutions from risks like fraud and money laundering.
dYdX
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dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange offering Perpetual, Margin, & Spot trading, as well as borrow / lend pools on Ethereum.
Helium
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Helium is an Internet-of-Things developer platform for building the network and transferring IoT device data.
Stellar Development Foundation
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A non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar, a blockchain network that connects financial infrastructure.
Okcoin
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One of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Okcoin is building an inclusive future of finance for all.
Forte
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We’re building economic technology for games using blockchain.
Bitski
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Bitski allows creators, brands, and platforms to create, sell, and purchase NFTs.
Brave
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Brave Software focuses on increasing browsing speed and safety for users, while growing ad revenue share for content creators.
Veem
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Veem is a payment service provider that helps simplify the way businesses send and receive funds.
Chia Network
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Chia Network is building a blockchain platform based on Proofs of Space and Time.
CoinList
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CoinList provides a platform for digital asset companies to run their token sales.
Set Labs
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Set Labs is a crypto-financial platform that allows users to create baskets of cryptocurrency, NFTs, and on-chain securities.
Compound
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Compound is an open-source interest rate protocol that unlocks new financial applications.
Celo
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Celo is an open platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone.
Rally
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Rally provides a blockchain platform for the development of video streaming and gaming apps.
TrustToken
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TrustToken is a platform to create asset-backed tokens that can be used for buying and selling around the world.
Oasis Labs
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Oasis Labs is a privacy-first cloud computing platform on blockchain technology.
Unstoppable Domains
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Unstoppable Domains launches domains secured by blockchains and builds uncensorable websites.
Proxy
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Proxy provides a smartphone-enabled digital identity that allows the user to authenticate and interact with all devices.
Harbor
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Harbor is helping to power the next big wave in capital markets – tokenized securities – by automating regulatory compliance.
O(1) Labs
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O(1) Labs is a software development company working on Mina Protocol, a tiny, portable blockchain.
0x
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0x is an open protocol that enables peer-to-peer trading of assets.
Aleo
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Aleo is building the world’s leading developer platform for enabling absolute privacy on blockchains.
Numerai
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Numerai transforms and regularizes financial data into machine learning problems for global network of data scientists.
Civic
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Civic is a blockchain based ecosystem gives businesses and individuals the tools to control and protect identities.
Origin Protocol
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Origin Protocol is a blockchain platform for building decentralized marketplaces.
River Financial
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River Financial is a Bitcoin financial institution allowing long-term investors to buy, sell, and manage Bitcoin.
NuCypher
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NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols.
SKALE Labs
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SKALE Labs is a blockchain scalability platform that provides high speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts.
CERE Network
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CERE Network is a blockchain customer relationship management startup.
Chronicled
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Chronicled builds trust and automation in the life science industry, powered by blockchain
CoinTracker
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CoinTracker is a portfolio and tax manager for cryptocurrency.
Securitize
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Securitize enables digital securities, which are easier to own, simpler to manage, and faster to trade.
Kava Labs
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Kava Labs is a developer of Kava, is the most trusted DeFi platform by financial institutions
Digital Finance Group
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Diversified investment group that manages $1B in digital & blockchain assets across multiple funds, an incubator and global projects
MakersPlace
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MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators.
Nebula Genomics
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Nebula Genomics leverages blockchain technology to eliminate middlemen and empower people to own their personal genomic data.
Akash Network
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Akash Network, the world’s first decentralized and open-source cloud.
High Fidelity
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High Fidelity is an open source software for shared virtual reality.
i2Chain
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i2Chain is a SaaS platform that secures information and delivers privacy compliant clouds, folders, and files.
Dock
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Making it simple for organizations to build, manage and present instantly verifiable digital credentials.
Omniex
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Omniex develops software infrastructure that integrates front, middle, and back-office services to simplify access and remove fragmentation.
Alchemy
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Alchemy is a developer platform that helps companies to build reliable decentralized applications.
Reflexer Labs
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Reflexer Labs is a new decentralized finance project aimed at softening volatility.
Coinbase Ventures
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Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in early-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups.
CryptiSwap
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CryptiSwap© is a Non-Custodial CryptoCurrency exchange/swap service | no registration | no holds | no third party
Iron Fish
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Iron Fish is a novel cryptocurrency focused on privacy and accessibility.
Sifchain Finance
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Sifchain is the world’s first omni-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) for digital assets.
Rare Bits
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Rare Bits is a zero-fee peer-to-peer marketplace to buy, sell, and discover crypto goods.
Snowball Money
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Snowball Money operates as a crypto investment automation platform that provides access to professionally curated portfolios.
Saddle Finance
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Saddle Finance is an automated market maker (AMM) optimized for pegged value crypto assets.
GlobaliD
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Create and manage your own portable, digital identity with globaliD.
Zerion
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Zerion is an all-in-one interface that allows technical and non-technical users to acquire, track and manage DeFi assets.
Sommelier
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The new coprocessor for Ethereum. Move your DeFi assets into higher yields faster and cheaper.
Agoric
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Agoric provides a framework for programming smart contracts securely and with ease, beyond anything available today.
Sperax
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Sperax builds the most secure and scalable infrastructure for decentralized financial services.
Polkaswitch
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A decentralized multi-chain liquidity protocol on Polkadot, Ethereum, and top layer 1 & 2 blockchains.
AnchorUSD
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AnchorUSD offers stable currency anchored 1-for-1 to the US dollar (USDX).
Slingshot Finance
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Next-gen decentralized trading platform
TokenSoft
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TokenSoft is a technology and security platform that automates the asset management and fundraising experience.
Multis
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Multis provides financial services for companies holding euros, dollars, and cryptocurrencies.
Blocknative
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Real-time blockchain transaction management and monitoring.
Anchorage
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Anchorage is a digital asset platform offering custody, trading, and financing services, as well as staking and governance.
District0x
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District0x is a network of decentralized markets and communities.
Chain
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Chain built cryptographic ledger systems to make financial services smarter, more secure, and more connected.
Provenance Blockchain
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Provenance Blockchain combines the distributed, trustless, and immutable characteristics of blockchain.
Beenest
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Beenest is a home sharing platform for hosts to list their homes and for guests to find accommodations.
Risk Harbor
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The only objective risk management marketplace for decentralized finance (DeFi).
Unum ID
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Unum ID provides sharified — shared, verified — identity, helping companies to instantly know who is who online.
Linen App
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New experience that allows our members to earn high yield on their cash.
Wilder World
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Wilder World is a decentralized NFT market and artist guild.
Round Finance Inc.
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Building an aggregator of digital assets and experiences
Aikon
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Aikon provides API-based Blockchain as a Service for top public blockchains including EOS, Ethereum and Libra
Jointer
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World’s first COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BACKED DeFi
Stream Token
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Stream is a blockchain-based token that allows livestreamers to accept payments with low transaction fees and no platform lock-in.
Abacus
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Abacus streamlines customer onboarding for financial services companies.
Arise Travel
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Modern infrastructure for the travel industry.
RocketFuel
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RocketFuel is a global provider of 1-click payment option using Bitcoin & other cryptocurrencies with no card & bank fees & chargeback costs
SureRemit
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SureRemit is an ecosystem for global non-cash remittances.
gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC)
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gumi Cryptos Capital is a blockchain and cryptographic asset venture fund
CrowdForce
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CrowdForce is an offline distribution network for market research and financial services.
Alluva
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Alluva is a blockchain-based, contributor-model product that incentivises participants for their predictions and ratings.
Yours
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Yours is a blockchain-based social network where users can earn bitcoin.
DCEX
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DCEX is a US based digital currency exchange with OTC desk, digital dollar DCEX$ and a Digital currency news site
Bodhi
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Bodhi is a decentralized prediction market platform focusing on Chinese market.
Wivity Inc.
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Distributed database that holds security-critial information on cyrptographic private keys. Standardized by the SunSpec Alliance.
Audius
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Audius is creating a fully decentralized community of artists, developers, and listeners collaborating to share and defend music.
Layer1
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Layer1 builds turnkey Bitcoin mining data centers that boost the profitability of energy assets.
NEAR Protocol
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NEAR Protocol is a blockchain designed to provide the performance and UX to get to mainstream adoption of decentralized applications
Chainlink Labs
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Chainlink Labs provides open-source blockchain oracle solutions and specializes in the development and integration of chainlink.
