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10 DeFi startups founded in 2023 have raised money in rounds we track. These are the 10 that have raised the most, $109M between them, with the United States the most common home.
N3XT is a full-reserve bank based in Cheyenne, Wyoming, specializing in instant, programmable business-to-business (B2B) payments in U.S.
Founded 2023Cheyenne, United States$72Mlast round Oct 2025The Ethos Credibility Score is the first dApp created on the Ethos Network.
Founded 2023Austin, United States$8.4Mlast round Sept 2026Cork Protocol is a DeFi risk infrastructure protocol that focuses on tokenizing and managing depeg risks for pegged assets such as stablecoins and liquid staking tokens.
Founded 2023New York, United States$5.5Mlast round Jan 2026TBook is the first embedded RWA liquidity layer that brings institutional-grade tokenized yield into user-facing apps.
Founded 2023New York, United States$5.0Mlast round Jan 2026Blackwing is a crypto and DeFi company that focuses on building a modular blockchain and a decentralized exchange (DEX) abstraction layer.
Founded 2023New York, United States$4.5Mlast round Mar 2024VELAR is a Multi-Feature DeFi App with Bitcoin Finality.
Founded 2023-$3.5Mlast round Feb 20240xbow is a Nashville-based cryptocurrency infrastructure company founded in 2023.
Founded 2023Nashville, United States$3.5Mlast round Nov 2025Stix is the largest OTC platform for secondary market liquidity for Digital Assets
Founded 2023Poland$2.7Mlast round Oct 2023Multisynq is a decentralized synchronization layer that lets people, AI agents, and machines create, connect, and coordinate in real time without centralized in
Founded 2023Los Angeles, United States$2.2Mlast round Apr 2024Liquorice is providing off-chain liquidity for solvers and increasing capital efficiency for pro traders, while eliminating impermanent loss for LPs.
Founded 2023Hamburg, Germany$1.2Mlast round Jul 2024Companies founded in 2023 whose funding rounds we classed in this sector, ranked by the total they have raised in rounds we hold. Nobody pays to be on a list.
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XAI startups worldwide10,238 companies · $830B
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RPBiotech startups worldwide7,127 companies · $70B
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