Why use Recent Funding to track crypto startups
What Recent Funding does as a crypto startup directory, stated as counts: sourced raises, review corrections, early stealth flags, accelerator tags and an API.
On this page
Recent Funding is a crypto startup directory where every published raise links to its source, wrong amounts are corrected in review, stealth startups are flagged before they announce, and the same data is an API. As of October 9, 2026 it lists 30139 companies, 1790 of them crypto.
Every raise links to its source
395 crypto companies have an amount for their latest round, and 296 of those have a source link (raise_source_url in the API). Amounts without one are left out of the blog, and a missing amount means unknown, not zero. How Recent Funding sources and verifies funding data has the detail.
Reviews remove numbers that aren't raises
Reviews take out acquisitions, valuations, debt and amounts in other currencies read as dollars, and merge duplicate companies. A wrong amount is replaced when the real one is known and otherwise cleared, and each correction keeps the previous value and its source so it can be audited.
Early stealth flags
Stealth startups are flagged from our own watch of new X accounts and from an early-stage tracker. 4 crypto companies have a days_early figure (days flagged before the raise was public), 119 across all sectors. See stealth startups flagged before they raised.
Several crypto sources, and accelerator tags
Crypto records combine Dropstab, CoinCarp and Crypto-Fundraising.info with funding news, accelerator pages and stealth signals; sources lists each one. Accelerator and crypto program backing is tagged the same way in the app and the API:
| Accelerator | Companies |
|---|---|
Outlier Ventures (outlier) | 259 |
Plug and Play (pnp) | 230 |
BNB Chain MVB (mvb) | 173 |
Y Combinator (yc) | 134 |
Alliance (alliance) | 133 |
500 Global (500) | 128 |
LongHashX (longhashx) | 49 |
XRPL Accelerator (xrpl) | 47 |
Antler (antler) | 40 |
Entrepreneur First (ef) | 27 |
Orange DAO (orange) | 19 |
Superteam USA (superteam-usa) | 19 |
Base Batches (base-batches) | 11 |
YZi Labs (yzi) | 11 |
ERA (era) | 9 |
Seedcamp (seedcamp) | 9 |
a16z speedrun (speedrun) | 6 |
Pear VC (pear) | 3 |
Pioneer Fund (pioneer) | 3 |
Superteam Black (superteam-black) | 3 |
Colosseum (colosseum) | 2 |
Berkeley SkyDeck (skydeck) | 2 |
a16z CSX (csx) | 1 |
Encode Accelerator (encode) | 1 |
Solana Incubator (solana-incubator) | 1 |
Peak XV Surge (surge) | 1 |
Limits
1124 crypto companies have no stage, because stage labels come from the sources. The crypto flag is a classification and misses some companies with crypto products.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/companies?crypto=true&sort=days_early&limit=20"A free key takes just an email. The crypto startup API walks through the endpoints, and the API docs are the reference.
Related on Recent Funding
- Startup funding data: the last 30 days in charts
- Recently funded startups, updated daily
- Money flow: raises, acquisitions and new funds
- Categories ranked by capital raised
- Crypto startups that raised in the last 90 days
- Crypto startup leaderboard: 2026 year to date
- Startup funding this week: the startups that raised, Oct 26–Nov 2, 2026
- Recent Funding API docs: every endpoint behind this post; a free API key takes just an email