Team size at crypto startups: how it's counted
How Recent Funding counts a crypto startup's team size from its team page, and what that number can and cannot tell you.
Recent Funding counts a crypto startup's team size as the number of distinct LinkedIn profiles linked on its own team or about page, and links each count to that page (team_size and team_source_url in the API). As of October 9, 2026, 182 of 1790 crypto companies have a count, ranging from 1 to 700 people: too few to describe a typical crypto startup.
How it's counted
A script loads the company's website and up to five same-host pages that look like team pages (/team, /about, /people, /founders and similar), counts distinct linkedin.com/in/ links on each, and keeps the page with the most, if it has at least two. Social profiles stored as a website are skipped, and only the count is stored, never names.
What it can't tell you
It is a lower bound on the people a company chooses to list, not headcount. It misses people without a LinkedIn link and can include advisors, investors or former staff, and it is only as fresh as the page. Open the source before comparing two companies.
Examples
The first 25 by name; each count links to the page it was counted on.
| Company | Industry | Stage | Team page count | Latest round |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| defi | unknown | 3 | undisclosed | |
| defi | series-a | 10 | undisclosed | |
| ai | unknown | 11 | $3.2M | |
| defi | unknown | 7 | undisclosed | |
| infra-devtools | seed | 2 | undisclosed | |
| defi | unknown | 12 | undisclosed | |
 Alt.DRX | proptech | unknown | 6 | undisclosed |
| payments-stablecoins | unknown | 3 | undisclosed | |
| defi | unknown | 4 | undisclosed | |
| trading-markets | pre-seed | 3 | undisclosed | |
| consumer-social | unknown | 10 | undisclosed | |
| infra-devtools | unknown | 8 | undisclosed | |
| payments-stablecoins | series-b+ | 100 | undisclosed | |
| defi | seed | 150 | undisclosed | |
| defi | unknown | 29 | undisclosed | |
| payments-stablecoins | seed | 9 | $3.3M | |
| infra-devtools | unknown | 4 | undisclosed | |
 Blocq | security-privacy | unknown | 3 | undisclosed |
| payments-stablecoins | seed | 8 | undisclosed | |
| defi | unknown | 6 | undisclosed | |
| consumer-social | seed | 8 | $5.5M | |
| other | pre-seed | 3 | undisclosed | |
| infra-devtools | seed | 10 | undisclosed | |
| consumer-social | unknown | 3 | undisclosed | |
| defi | unknown | 6 | undisclosed |
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/companies?crypto=true&sort=team_size&limit=25"sort=team_size returns companies with a count first, so stop at the first null. The API docs describe every field, and the crypto startup API covers the other crypto endpoints.
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