Crypto & Web3 Startups

near.com is an onchain financial account that lets users trade, access yield, transfer funds confidentially, and make peer-to-peer deals across 35+ blockchain networks from a single account. Built on the NEAR Protocol, it targets crypto users and plans features such as AI-assisted financial management, tokenized real-world assets, virtual bank accounts, and debit cards.

2 investors

NEAR Foundation is a Swiss nonprofit foundation (Stiftung) that supports the NEAR ecosystem, a decentralized blockchain platform for building decentralized applications. It allocates treasury resources and funds ecosystem functions to further decentralization rather than operating the network directly.

2 investors

Neo is a blockchain platform for building decentralized applications and smart contracts, offering developer tooling and support for writing contracts in multiple languages including Python, C#, Go, TypeScript, and Java. It provides standards such as NEP-17 tokens for developers building on its network.

2 investors

Neuron provides an SDK and network that turn physical devices—from GPU clusters to a Raspberry Pi—into edge nodes that AI agents and software platforms can discover, access, and control via encrypted peer-to-peer communication. Its edge agents are used for flight-tracking and drone operations by airports and OEMs, and the network uses the NRN token to secure machine-to-machine transactions.

2 investors

Nexo is a digital asset platform where individuals, businesses, and institutions can buy, borrow against, and earn interest on cryptocurrencies, offering credit lines, OTC trading, custody, and savings across more than 100 crypto assets. It serves retail investors, family offices, and corporate clients, with private-client and institutional tiers alongside personalized relationship management.

2 investors

Nexo is a digital asset platform offering crypto-backed credit lines, interest-earning savings on over 100 cryptocurrencies, OTC trading, and institutional-grade custody. It serves individual investors, family offices, businesses, and institutions, including a private tier for clients with $100,000 or more in digital assets.

2 investors

nft now is a media publication covering the NFT, Web3, and crypto space, producing news, features, and editorial content about digital assets and the broader creator and blockchain community.

2 investors

Nftgo, headquartered in Singapore, operates a data aggregation platform for non-fungible tokens. A proprietary data collection engine pulls transaction records from blockchains and converts them into readable market and trading data. Collectors and traders use it to track holdings and market conditions, while NFT projects use the audience data for outreach.

2 investors

NFTPad is a cross-chain NFT launchpad that lets users mint, auction, and raise liquidity for NFTs tradable on AMMs such as PancakeSwap and Uniswap. It focuses on blockchain gaming, digital art, and DeFi projects.

2 investors

NFTs2Me is a no-code platform for creating, deploying, and minting NFT collections, letting users design generative art or edition drops and deploy audited ERC-721 contracts with features like multi-phase sales, airdrops, whitelists, token gating, and royalty enforcement. It serves creators of all skill levels through a hosted or embeddable minting page.

2 investors

NGRAVE builds self-custody security products for cryptocurrency holders to protect and control their digital assets. The company focuses on hardware and design that reduces the risk of loss and hacking of crypto wealth.

2 investors

MoonPay is a payments platform that connects traditional money and crypto through a single integration, letting end users buy, sell, send, trade, and pay in crypto and stablecoins within a business's own product. It serves wallets, exchanges, marketplaces, gaming and consumer apps, fintechs, and payment providers with on/off ramps, crypto checkout, trading, and stablecoin infrastructure, including KYC, fraud prevention, and licensing.

2 investors

Nifty League is a decentralized gaming studio and publisher that develops competitive multiplayer games with Web3 integration, allowing players to earn tokens and own in-game assets.

2 investors

Nockchain is a protocol for verifiable compute networks, with Nock functioning as a programmable asset backed by computational infrastructure.

2 investors

Nocturne is a protocol that enables onchain privacy for blockchain users. It provides privacy solutions for cryptocurrency transactions.

2 investors

NODE40 provides digital asset reporting infrastructure that reconstructs transaction-level history to support cost basis, lot identity, and reconciliation, producing outputs that can be traced and defended under audit or tax review. It serves accounting, treasury, tax, and validator teams handling DeFi, staking, validators, and multi-chain crypto activity.

2 investors

Nodle operates a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) that uses smartphones and BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) to provide crowdsourced location and tracking services. Its network is used by enterprises for asset and vehicle tracking, such as tracking vehicles for recovery in France.

2 investors

Nolus is an open-source, on-chain margin and crypto lending protocol that provides transparent margin infrastructure for both retail users and institutions. It offers structured margin products governed by community consensus in the decentralized finance space.

2 investors

Nomad is a cross-chain messaging protocol that lets users send tokens and data between blockchains using an optimistic verification mechanism secured by fraud proofs and off-chain watchers. It targets blockchain developers and applications needing lower-cost, decentralized cross-chain communication.

2 investors

Nomad Fulcrum is a DeFi platform that uses AI-driven quantitative strategies to generate yield on stablecoins and tokenized assets, aggregating returns from both crypto and traditional financial markets into a single dashboard. It targets institutional and retail investors, offering tokenized investment certificates through partnerships with FINMA-regulated Swiss financial entities and custodians.

2 investors

Northstake develops regulatory compliant crypto staking solutions for regulated financial institutions, digital asset managers, and custodians, working with custodians and liquidity providers to provide staking yields. Its products include the Staking Vault Manager and Staking Vault Manager Pro, enterprise tools for managing Lido V3 stVaults via UI, API, and SDK.

2 investors

NovaSeeds is a Web3 launchpad platform for discovering and investing in early-stage token projects, offering multiple IDO (initial DEX offering) modes, a DEX, and token staking. It connects project teams, investors, and users, letting community members vote on projects to be listed and invest in vetted crypto and meme assets.

2 investors

Nunchi provides reference rates that isolate and make observable the financing cost of leveraged crypto positions, starting with its SWP series (e.g. BTCSWP tracking Bitcoin funding). It serves institutions, liquidity providers, and treasuries for evaluating funding costs and managing exposure, with data delivered as a feed and via MCP access for AI agents and trading, analytics, and risk systems.

2 investors

Nuva Labs provides a platform for tokenizing, managing, and distributing digital assets on the Provenance Blockchain and other networks, covering the full lifecycle of a tokenized asset. It targets institutions and fintechs adopting blockchain technology, including DeFi distribution.

2 investors