This article showcases our top picks for the best San Francisco based Ethereum companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Ethereum industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top San Francisco Ethereum Companies
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Kraken
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Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. Founded in 2011 and with over 4 million clients, Kraken is one of the world’s largest, most successful bitcoin exchanges and we’re growing faster than ever.
Our range of successful products are playing an important role in the mainstream adoption of crypto assets. Kraken is a marketplace for digital assets where buyers, sellers, traders and speculators come together to exchange cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Ripple against national currencies like USD, EUR, CAD and JPY.
Clients trading larger sizes benefit from our principal Over-the-Counter (OTC) desk and white glove service. Advanced traders and technical analysis wizards can take advantage of our professional charting tools.
Software engineers, botters and hobbyist automators have available both REST and Websocket APIs with which trades can be made and market information obtained. Kraken provides 24/7 live chat support for any questions you have about getting started..
Coinbase
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Coinbase is an online platform that allows merchants, consumers, and traders to transact with digital currency. It allows its users to create their own bitcoin wallets and start buying or selling bitcoins by connecting with their bank accounts.
In addition, it provides a series of merchant payment processing systems and tools that support many highly-trafficked websites on the internet. Coinbase was launched in 2012 with a mission to create an open financial system for the world.
It is operated from San Francisco, California.. .
Uphold
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Uphold enables 1.5MM+ members worldwide to buy, sell and hold fiat and digital currencies, as well as precious metals, through one super-simple interface. Unlike competitor platforms, users can trade directly between any supported asset class, stripping out layers of fees, saving time and money.
Furthermore, the blockchain-integrated platform makes it possible to send any currency to virtually anyone, anywhere – instantly. No matter where you live in the world, Uphold offers retail consumers an incredibly easy way invest, pay or get paid.
– Buy, sell, hold and convert 30 cryptocurrencies, 27 fiat currencies and 4 precious metals, all in one account. – Earn an annual return on asset holdings or tap affordable lines of credit secured by those assets via Uphold’s partner apps.
– Pay anyone instantly, virtually anywhere, by email. With $5.5 billion+ in transactions to date, Uphold believes in expanding access and dissolving borders.
With offices in Silicon Valley, New York, London and Portugal, Uphold is opening up elite and illiquid asset classes to its members, as well as access to financial services that are either hard-to-reach or simply unavailable in certain geographic regions. In a fast-growing part of its business model, Uphold supports closed-loop ecosystems, enabling digital tokens to be held, transferred and converted into other asset types.
With its open API, third-party developers have built sophisticated financial products on top of its core platform. Uphold has a compliance-first culture and acquires appropriate regulatory licensing in each jurisdiction.
Compound
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Compound is an open-source interest rate protocol that unlocks new financial applications for developers. Its protocol is a widely used system built on Ethereum, with thousands of users, and dozens of applications integrating Compound.
Compound offers a web interface that adjusts money market interest rates based on asset-specific supply and demand. Compound was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California..
TrustToken
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TrustToken is a platform to create asset-backed tokens that you can easily buy and sell around the world. For example, gold to gold tokens or dollar to dollar tokens.
The company’s first asset token is TrueUSD, a stablecoin that you can redeem 1-for-1 for US dollars. TrustToken was founded in 2017 and consists of a team from Stanford, UC Berkeley, Airbnb, Goldman Sachs, PayPal, and Google, and is backed by a16z crypto, BlockTower Capital, Danhua Capital, Founders Fund Angel, GGV Capital, Jump Capital, Stanford-StartX, and others.
For more information about TrustToken and its TrueUSD product, visit http://www.trusttoken.com.. .
0x
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0x is an open protocol that enables peer-to-peer trading of assets.
Origin Protocol
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Origin is a protocol for creating sharing economy marketplaces using the Ethereum blockchain and IPFS. It empowers developers and businesses to build decentralized marketplaces on the blockchain.
Its protocol makes it easy to create and manage listings for the fractional usage of assets and services. Origin allows buyers and sellers to discover each other, browse listings, make bookings, leave ratings and reviews, and much more.
The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.. .
Blocknative
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* We are the leading experts in in-flight transactions – everything that happens before a transaction gets confirmed and goes on-chain. This data is both technically challenging and operationally expensive to capture and normalize, enabling us to assemble unique data assets while also creating material barriers to entry.
* As a result, we have first revenue and a growing roster of customers and partners including Dapps, wallets, exchanges, marketplaces, protocols, and service providers. We have an informed POV on the current state of the market and insight into how and why it will be rapidly evolving over the course of 2020.
* We are assembling a focused, experienced team with a track record of building high-scale software infrastructure and driving successful startup outcomes – including a positive exit to Cisco (which generated >40% IRR for the institutional investors) in my most recent at bat.. .
CoinTracker
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CoinTracker is a portfolio and tax manager for cryptocurrency.
District0x
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District0x is a network of markets and communities that exist as decentralized autonomous organizations. All internet citizens will be able to deploy districts to the network free of charge, forever.
At the core of every district is the d0xINFRA framework, a stack of Ethereum smart contracts and front-end libraries distributed on IPFS which power a district’s basic functionalities. D0xINFRA is designed to be open and extendable, allowing districts to implement unique features and enhanced functionality via the plug-in of auxiliary modules.
The company was established in 2017.. .
Opyn
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Opyn is building an insurance marketplace to protect cryptocurrency users against system risks in Decentralized Finance.
Zerion
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Zerion is an all-in-one interface that allows technical and non-technical users to acquire, track and manage DeFi assets.
Beenest
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Beenest is a home sharing platform for hosts to list their homes and for guests to find accommodations. Their mission is to reinvent business travel, starting with accommodations.
Beenest helps you find high quality, conveniently located hotels and homes in major cities around the world.. .
Bitski
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Bitski (currently in beta) allows anyone to build user-friendly and cross-platform Ethereum apps.
Linen App
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Linen App: earn high yield on your cash (4-5% APY variable). Start with as low as $5, available to withdraw anytime, no fees.
Interest accrues hourly, not monthly.. .
Synthetic Minds
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Synthetic Minds secures smart contracts using program synthesis.
Aegis Custody
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Digital asset custody company offering a hybrid hardware-software solution with state-of-the-art security standards.
Dapps
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Dapps Inc. is a San Francisco-based EBC (Enterprise Blockchain Computing Co.) enabling global organziations from US and European SMBs to Fortune500 to Universities(and the US and Indian Governments, 2019) – with enterprise-grade blockchain and distributed ledger technology solutions.
Customers leverage the company’s innovate products and services, multi-sector global experience and deep technology expertise to achieve top-line growth, reduce operating expenses, and integrate with key stakeholders such as suppliers, vendors and partners.. .
Cipher Browser
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Cipher Browser is a decentralized app browser and wallet for the Ethereum blockchain.
Cred
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Cred is a decentralized lending platform that facilitates open access to credit based on the Ethereum.
Summa
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Summa is the premier provider of cross-chain architecture and interoperability as a service solutions for the blockchain industry. Their work on Stateless SPV’s, Ethereum core development, and Zcash core development all promise to bring some of the largest chains closer together.
Their software lowers the barriers between chains, enabling users, funds, and value to flow more freely throughout the blockchain ecosystem.. .
Portal
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Portal is a financial services company that trades crypto without putting coins at risk.
Ambisafe
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Ambisafe’s founding team has been pioneering cryptocurrency development since 2010. Our experience ranges from the development of alternative consensus algorithms in 2010 to launch the first multi-currency wallet in 2014.
Nowadays we specialize in the issuance of Ethereum-based financial instruments, blockchain solutions, and ICO related services. The blockchain is a revolutionary global cloud database that enables multiple ways to optimize speed and transparency of any business that involves asset transfer or digital signatures.
Ambisafe provides the right tools and expertise to make it work for you. Using Ambisafe services you can issue any type of asset on the blockchain in minutes, and add it to cryptocurrency exchanges worldwide.
The company has an in-depth understanding of the needs of blockchain asset administrators and their customers. We offer a set of white label software products that save you up to a year of engineering efforts..
BlockVigil
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BlockVigil helps to build and scale blockchain apps with just a few lines of code.
RealtyReturns
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RealtyReturns is democratizing real estate investing by allowing investors to invest in real estate using cryptocurrency. The integration of the blockchain into the traditional real estate investing model provides asset-back token and liquidity to investors all across the globe.
We Provide: + Cross Border Investing + Liquidity for Real Estate + Reduction in Cryptocurrency Market Volatility) Our members include individual investors (both accredited and non-accredited), family offices, institutional investors, registered investment advisors, hedge funds, banks, asset managers and private equity funds. Our partners and advisors are among the biggest and most successful developers and landowners in Northern California, Washington and Arizona..
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