Kuru
8 known investors
Kuru is a fully onchain central-limit order book DEX and smart aggregator built on the Monad blockchain.
Also known as Kuru Labs
Founders & leadership
Investors · 8
Also in the syndicate · 2
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$2M disclosed across 1 of 3 rounds · 2024–2025
- Undisclosed amountSeries AJul 2025Source ↗
- $2Mseed roundJul 2024 · 2 sources
Electric Capital (lead), Breed, Brevan Howard Digital, CMS Holdings, Pivot Global, Purple, Velocity Capital
Source ↗
Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Kuru is a decentralized exchange built on Monad that operates a fully onchain central limit order book (CLOB) together with a smart order aggregator called Kuru Flow. The company positions the product as a trading hub for the Monad ecosystem, aggregating liquidity across the network and bringing a performant central-limit order book to an EVM environment. Alongside the order book, Kuru offers integrated discovery features, a trading terminal, user liquidity provision and a token launchpad.
The protocol uses a hybrid CLOB-AMM model intended to unify liquidity across the Monad ecosystem while preserving composability and opening liquidity provisioning to a broader set of participants. Kuru states its aim is to narrow the gap between decentralized and centralized exchanges by combining low slippage, self-custody and composability. Two user-facing products are documented: Swap, for token swaps on Monad powered by Kuru Flow, and Trade, for finding and trading coins with charts and single-click execution.
Business model
Kuru operates a trading venue and aggregation layer on Monad, serving both retail traders through swap and trading interfaces and professional market makers through its order book contracts, with additional surface area from liquidity provision and a token launchpad.
Traction
Kuru has shipped documented Swap and Trade products on Monad plus developer-facing API and SDK access, and has raised $11.6 million led by Paradigm with participation from Electric Capital.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography
Market position
Kuru is positioned as a trading and liquidity hub within the Monad ecosystem, competing with automated market maker DEXs and aggregators as well as centralized exchanges on slippage and execution quality.
Kuru presents itself as bringing a performant central-limit order book to the EVM for the first time, with contracts tuned for constant, low-cost order placement and cancellation, and a hybrid CLOB-AMM model that aggregates ecosystem-wide liquidity while retaining self-custody and composability.
Technology
Kuru runs a fully onchain central limit order book with smart contracts optimized for the EVM and designed for market makers, enabling limit order placement and cancellation at low, constant gas cost, which the company says supports tighter spreads and deeper order book liquidity. A hybrid integrated CLOB-AMM design combines order book and automated market maker liquidity, described as four types of liquidity working together on every Kuru market. Developer access is provided through the Kuru Flow API for integrating the smart aggregator and an SDK for interfacing with Kuru smart contracts.
Go-to-market
Kuru distributes through its own web products (Swap and Trade) and through developer integrations of the Kuru Flow aggregator via a public API and SDK, with documentation aimed at both end users and builders on Monad.
Traders and swappers on Monad, market makers and professional liquidity providers, retail liquidity providers, token issuers using the launchpad, and developers integrating the aggregator via API or SDK.
Geography
Kuru operates as an onchain protocol on Monad, described as a globally decentralized network; no specific office locations are disclosed.
Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsKuru's documentation states the team raised $11.6 million in a round led by Paradigm, with participation from Electric Capital.
$11.6M source ↗
Kuru documents its Kuru Flow smart aggregator powering a Swap product for token swaps on Monad and a Trade product for discovering and trading coins with charts and single-click execution, alongside a Kuru Flow API and SDK for developers.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
▸Research sources · 1
primary sources listed
- The Trading Hub for Monad - Kurudocs.kuru.io · web
1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Kuru do?
- Kuru is a fully onchain central-limit order book DEX and smart aggregator built on the Monad blockchain.
- Who founded Kuru?
- Kuru was founded by Vaibhav Prakash.
- Who are Kuru's investors?
- Kuru's investors include Breed, Electric Capital, Brevan Howard Digital, Paradigm, Pivot Global, Velocity Capital Advisors.
- How much funding has Kuru raised?
- Kuru has disclosed $2M raised across 1 of its 3 known rounds.