At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 56 Virtual Currency companies in California, United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Virtual Currency Companies & Startups (California, United States)
Y Combinator
Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Founder(s): Jessica Livingston, Lucas Thomaz, Paul Graham, Raffaele Colella, Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Finance, Impact Investing, Virtual Currency
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SFOX
SFOX is a cryptocurrency prime dealer for professional traders and institutional investors.
Founder(s): Akbar Thobhani, George Melika
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, FinTech, Trading Platform, Virtual Currency
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MyMarkit
Fintech Blockchain Marketplace – A New Way To Shop
Founder(s): Nan Zhang
Location: Playa Vista, California, United States
Industries: Banking, Blockchain, Consumer, E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet, Marketplace, Virtual Currency
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Prodege
Prodege is a cutting-edge marketing and consumer insights platform that leverages its global audience to power its business solutions.
Founder(s): Josef Gorowitz, Scott Dudelson
Location: El Segundo, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Digital Media, Gift Card, Market Research, Mobile, Search Engine, Virtual Currency
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IMVU
IMVU is a social entertainment website where members use 3D avatars to meet new people, play games, and develop online communities.
Founder(s): Eric Ries, Marcus Gosling, Matt Danzig
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: 3D Technology, Gaming, Social Media, Virtual Currency
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SPARE CS, INC
Turns any cash register into an ATM
Founder(s): D’ontra Hughes, Jason Mugford, Michele Sconiers, Phillip Greene, Tim Caspersen
Location: West Hollywood, California, United States
Industries: Android, Banking, Consumer Software, Digital Marketing, Financial Services, FinTech, iOS, Peer to Peer, Point of Sale, Virtual Currency
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Moneytis
Moneytis compares the cheapest ways to send money between 2 countries, and let the user transfer easily.
Founder(s): Christophe Lassuyt, Etienne Tatur
Location: East Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, Virtual Currency
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Seva Exchange Corporation
We organize communities, equip them with the right tools and resources; and measure their impact and success.
Founder(s): Afrika Williams, Anitha Beberg, Martin Hoyes, Tim Corcoran
Location: Los Altos, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Communities, Enterprise Software, Non Profit, Sharing Economy, Social Impact, Social Network, Sustainability, Virtual Currency
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Earn.com
Earn money for replying to emails and completing tasks.
Founder(s): Balaji Srinivasan, Daniel Firu, Lily Liu, Matt Pauker, Nigel Drego, Veerbhan Kheterpal
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Bitcoin, Email, FinTech, Internet, Social Network, Virtual Currency
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QubeChain, LLC.
QubeChain is a technology company that develops mobile and web based revenue generating applications and services.
Founder(s): C. Rees Morgan
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Blockchain, Information Services, Information Technology, Virtual Currency
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Solid
Solid is a Modern Banking Platform that instantly creates bank accounts & cards for your customers.
Founder(s): Arjun Thyagarajan, Suresh Venkatraman
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Banking, Financial Services, FinTech, Virtual Currency
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Swarm
Swarm is a crowdfunding protocol built on bitcoin technology, enabling the backer of the project to experience the upside of the project.
Founder(s): Jef Cavens, Joel Dietz
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Bitcoin, Crowdfunding, Financial Services, Virtual Currency
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Pi Network
Pi is a cryptocurrency for people fueling the world’s economy.
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Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Cryptocurrency, Virtual Currency
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Hexel
Hexel is a startup that wants to make it easy for anyone to use Ethereum-based tokens to engage their hyperlocal community.
Founder(s): John C. Palmer, Marcus Molchany
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cryptocurrency, Productivity Tools, Software, Virtual Currency
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Tradehill
Tradehill is a virtual currency exchange platform specializing in bitcoin and Ripple transactions.
Founder(s): Jered Kenna, Miron Cuperman, Ryan Singer
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Virtual Currency
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Reveal
Reveal is a social network where friends can ask users questions and users can answer them with a photo or video revealing their opinions.
Founder(s): Josh Beal, Matt Ivester
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, iOS, Social Network, Virtual Currency
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Audience
Audience allows curators to earn money by building algorithmic robot DJs that play new artists music.
Founder(s): James Jones, John Boss
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Broadcasting, Music, Music Streaming, Social, Social Network, Video Streaming, Virtual Currency, Virtual Workforce, Web Apps
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Dogetipbot
dogetipbot offers a platform that enables its users to tip for online services which can be redeemed for currencies.
Founder(s): David Dvorak, Josh Mohland
Location: Arcata, California, United States
Industries: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Finance, FinTech, Internet, Mobile Payments, Payments, Virtual Currency
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Swagbucks
Swagbucks is the web’s most popular rewards program that gives you free gift cards and cash for the everyday things you already do online.
Founder(s): Josef Gorowitz, Scott Dudelson
Location: El Segundo, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Digital Media, E-Commerce, Gift Card, Market Research, Mobile, Search Engine, Virtual Currency
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tokensquare
Industry specific aggregator and community. Curated news, media, jobs and investment opportunities. Blockchain beta.
Founder(s): Martin Rerak
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Augmented Reality, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cannabis, eSports, News, Social Media, Virtual Currency, Virtual Reality
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Paymentwall
Paymentwall is a global payments platform which provides 150 local payment methods, incl. credit cards and e-wallets, in 200+ countries.
Founder(s): Honor Gunday, Vladimir Kovalyov
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Accounting, Billing, Credit Cards, Financial Services, Mobile Payments, Payments, Software, Virtual Currency, Virtual Goods
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Aeros Network
Aeros Network develops an application platform that offers travelers with reward currency that can be exchanged for flyer miles and points.
Founder(s): Gonzalo Rios
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: B2C, Software, Virtual Currency
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Estereum
Estereum is a crypto startup that is creating a new direction in blockchain commerce for small and medium businesses in a legal framework.
Founder(s): Denis Goriainov
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, E-Commerce, Internet, Payments, Small and Medium Businesses, Virtual Currency
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BitIRA
BitIRA specializes in Digital Currency IRAs. Purchase cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and more, and place them right into an IRA.
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Location: Burbank, California, United States
Industries: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Retirement, Virtual Currency
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DashGo
Digital Distribution Service Suite
Founder(s): Ben Patterson
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Content, Logistics, Music, Virtual Currency
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Jambool
Jambool operates SocialGold, an industry virtual monetization platform that enables developers to create and manage virtual currency.
Founder(s): Reza Hussein, Vikas Gupta
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, E-Commerce, Finance, Financial Services, Internet, Social Media, Virtual Currency, Virtual Goods
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Jirbo
Jirbo is a provider of iPhone and mobile software engineering, breakthrough mobile advertising, and casual mobile entertainment.
Founder(s): Jonathan Zweig
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Android, Apps, iOS, Mobile, Software, Virtual Currency
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NoveltyLab
NoveltyLab is a startup company that is committed to the integration of cryptocurrencies into modern financial systems and society.
Founder(s): Andrey Zamovskiy, Nickolay Babenko
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Finance, FinTech, Virtual Currency
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Contentbox
ContentBox is a public blockchain project for the content industry with a focus on the audio/visual realm.
Founder(s): Renee Wang
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Virtual Currency
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Digital Capital Management
Digital Capital Management is a fund management firm offering portfolio management of digital assets, fund plans for different investors.
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Location: La Jolla, California, United States
Industries: Blockchain, Financial Services, Hedge Funds, Virtual Currency
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boxPAY
boxPAY offers a mobile payment platform that enables its users to pay for digital contents using their phone number.
Founder(s): Gavin McConnon, Iain McConnon
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Casual Games, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments, Virtual Currency
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KlickNation
KlickNation creates social games on Facebook, specializing on war and RPG games.
Founder(s): Kenneth Walton, Mark Otero
Location: Sacramento, California, United States
Industries: Gaming, Social Network, Virtual Currency
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The Gift App
Virtual Gifting Company
Founder(s):
Location: Lucerne Valley, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Virtual Currency, Virtual Goods
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Disney wallet
Disney wallet is a smartphone application providing a virtual wallet for in-store and online shopping.
Founder(s): Jonathan Wall
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, FinTech, Virtual Currency
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Convergence of 4 Dimensions
Cross-Screen/Cross-Reality Virtual Universe
Founder(s): Andrew Prell, Frank Ballouz, Igor Livitz, Robert Rice, Ron Meiners, Tom Roe
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Augmented Reality, Blockchain, Video Games, Virtual Currency
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Sometrics
Sometrics is a web platform for publishers to market free-to-play online games and monetize virtual currency via consumer destination sites.
Founder(s): Ian Swanson, Joseph Hsieh, Matt Gray
Location: El Segundo, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, E-Commerce, Social Media, Virtual Currency
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BitFreezer
BitFreezer is a mobile application for a cryptocurrency wallet.
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Cryptocurrency, Mobile Apps, Virtual Currency
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Credit Hydra
Protocol to Create a decentralized credit bureau on blockchain
Founder(s): Abhishek Agarwal, Ko Ohashi
Location: Newark, California, United States
Industries: Banking, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Credit, Credit Bureau, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, FinTech, Identity Management, Personal Finance, Virtual Currency
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HUSH
Private Cryptocurrency & Messenger on Zero Knowledge Proof Encryption
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Privacy, Virtual Currency
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First Digital IRA (FDIRA)
FDIRA helps people place digital currency, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, into an IRA.
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Location: Burbank, California, United States
Industries: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Retirement, Virtual Currency
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Logic0x LLC
Venture Capital Firm and Financial Technology Company
Founder(s): No one Here
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Bitcoin, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, FinTech, Personal Finance, Software, Stock Exchanges, Trading Platform, Virtual Currency
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Spare Change Payments
Spare Change Payments is a micro-payments system for social networks.
Founder(s): Lex Bayer, Mark Rose, Simon Ru
Location: Cupertino, California, United States
Industries: Apps, FinTech, Payments, Social Media, Virtual Currency
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Dinngo
Dinngo is a social media payment app that splits expenses by tagging others, making it fun and convenient without ruining moments.
Founder(s): Chu Hsuan Ting, Hsuanting Chu
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Payments, Social Media, Virtual Currency
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Venstar Exchange
Venstar Exchange renders foreign currency exchange, managing currency risk, personal advisory, market forecasting & wire transfer services.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, Payments, Virtual Currency
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Sparter
Sparter is a virtual goods exchange for buying and selling virtual currencies in games like world of warcraft and everquest.
Founder(s): Boris Putanec, Dan Kelly
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Gaming, Sales, Virtual Currency
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PMBC Group – Blockchain/ Crypto Division
PMBC Group Blockchain Crypto Division provides technology PR, digital currency, bitcoinest, digital trends, blockchain and cryptocurrency.
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Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
Industries: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Virtual Currency
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StoryFire
Creative Video & Writing Entertainment Platform
Founder(s): Brian Spitz, Jesse Ridgway
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Content, Content Creators, Internet, Social, Social Media, Social Network, Video, Virtual Currency, Young Adults
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G6 Media
G6 Media is a mobile applications monetize their virtual currency through various alternative payment methods.
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Location: Lucerne Valley, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Advertising Platforms, Android, iOS, Mobile, Virtual Currency
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Follow The Coin
The homepage of FinTech and digital currency. A news and information website with the leading video coverage focused on FinTech.
Founder(s): Tina Hui
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Internet, News, Virtual Currency
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BitGo
BitGo is the leader in institutional digital asset financial services, providing clients with security, custody, and liquidity solutions.
Founder(s): Ben Davenport, Mike Belshe, Will O’Brien
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, FinTech, Virtual Currency
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Prisma Lab
Prisma Lab offers blockchain sharing platform designed to assist in crypto-trading.
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Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Virtual Currency
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Rare Currency
Rare Currency is a paper money dealer, buyers, and collectors.
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Location: Simi Valley, California, United States
Industries: Legal, Sales, Virtual Currency
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Pagobit
We are making it ridiculously easier, quicker and safer to accept Bitcoins at your website, social network, online or local store.
Founder(s): Alvaro Moreno, Jorge Abascal, Manuel Polo
Location: Torrance, California, United States
Industries: Bitcoin, E-Commerce, FinTech, Mobile, Mobile Payments, Virtual Currency
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xCrowd
Builds mining equipments
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Virtual Currency
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Frag’D Industries LLC
Frag’D Industries is a gaming community platform that enables them to track their achievements, chat, and create clans and tournaments.
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Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
Industries: Social Media, Video Games, Virtual Currency
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Solana
Solana is a crypto startup that builds and develops crypto apps for decentralized apps and marketplaces.
Founder(s): Greg Fitzgerald, guillaume pousaz, Raj Gokal, Stephen Akridge, Zed Zed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet, Marketplace, Virtual Currency
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