The 11 Bitcoin Startups That Raised the Most Funds in 2015

21 Inc

Largest funding round: $ 116 million

Deadline : March 2015

Total funding: $ 121.05 million

Investors: Andreessen Horowitz , Data Collective , Khosla Ventures , RRE Ventures , and Yuan Capital .

What it's doing: Perhaps the most established and most funded company in the bitcoin space. The company announced that it will soon be taking pre-orders for a bitcoin mining computer for $ 400 .

Coinbase

Largest funding round: $ 75 million

Deadline : January 2015

Total funding: $ 106 million

Investors: New York Stock Exchange, BBVA, USAA , DoCoMo , Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) Growth Fund , Tim Draper , Union Square Ventures ,

Ribbit Capital , Andreessen Horowitz , Vikram Pandit and Tom Glocer .

Achievements: A bitcoin payment startup based in San Francisco that has applied for a New York State BitLicense. In recent months, it has expanded its services to Canada and Singapore. It allows British customers to buy bitcoin directly using a credit or debit card. It applied for nine patents for various bitcoin products earlier this year .

Circle

Largest funding round: $ 50 million

Deadline : April 2015

Total funding: $ 76 million

Investors: Goldman Sachs, ID Capital, Breyer Capital , General Catalyst Partners and Accel Partners .

What it's done: Made headlines this week for being the first company in the bitcoin space to receive a BitLicense from the New York State Department of Financial Services . The company has updated its Android, ISO and web apps, now called 'Circle Pay' .

Chain

Largest funding round: $ 30 million

Deadline : September 2015

Total funding: $ 43.7 million

Investors: Visa, Nasdaq, Citigroup, Capital One, Fiserv , Orange , Khosla Ventures , RRE Ventures , Thrive Capital , SV Angel , David Coulter , Peter Diamandis and Kevin Ryan .

Achievement honors: In the announcement: Chain said RRE Ventures founder Jim Robinson will join the board of directors.

Ripple Labs

Largest funding round: $ 28 million

Deadline : May 2015

Total funding: $ 37 million

Investors: CME Group, American Futures, Seagate Technology , AME Cloud Ventures , ChinaRock Capital Management , China Growth Capital , Wicklow Capital , Bitcoin Opportunity Corp , Core Innovation Capital , Route 66 Ventures , RRE Ventures, Vast Ventures and Venture 51 .

Achievements and honors: Former U.S. Treasury official Michael Barr joins Ripple Labs ' board of directors advisory group.

ItBit

Largest funding round: $ 25 million

Deadline : May 2015

Total funding: $ 28.25 million

Investors: RRE Ventures , Liberty City Ventures , Jay W Jordan II and James Pallotta .

Achievements and Honors: According to Reuters, the New York State Banking Regulatory Authority said that Bitcoin trading platform itBit has applied for a banking license in New York. itBit announced the launch of Global OTC Services, a new five-person over-the-counter ( OTC ) service. Appointed the former NYDFS general counsel as the platform's general counsel and chief compliance officer, and a former NSA employee joined the company's advisory board.

BitFury

Largest funding round: $ 20 million

Deadline : July 2015

Total funding: $ 60 million

Investors: Georgia Co-Investment Fund, DRW Venture Capital and iTech Capital

Achievements and Honors: Designed a 6nm Bitcoin mining chip earlier this month. In order to solve the problem of Bitcoin confirmation and consensus, it supports Jeff Garzik 's BIP 100 solution.

KnC Miner

Largest funding round: $ 15 million

Deadline : February 2015

Total financing: US$ 29 million

Investors: Accel Partners , GP Bullhound , Creandum and Martin Wattin

Achievements: Bitcoin mining machine manufacturer KnC Miner announced in June that it would deploy a " game-changing " Bitcoin ASIC miner, with plans to deploy new mining equipment in northern Sweden in September .

Vogogo

Largest funding round: $ 12.5 million

Deadline : June 2015

Total funding: $ 21 million

Investors: Beacon Securities , Clarus Securities and Salmon Partners

Achievements and honors: Vogogo CEO Geoff Gordon said the new funding will be used for key acquisitions, capital security and becoming a more inclusive company.

Abra

Largest funding round: $ 12 million

Deadline September 2015​

Total funding: $ 14 million

Investors: Arbor Ventures , RRE Ventures and First Round Capital

Achievements: The company said the funds will be used to further develop and optimize the remittance service app and expand its service scope.

Cryex

Largest funding round: $ 10 million

Deadline : May 2015

Total funding: $ 10 million

Investors: White Star Capital and Northzone Ventures

What it’s doing: According to its website, this Swedish company seeks to build a bridge between traditional financial firms and blockchain technology.