CoinGecko

World’s largest independent crypto data aggregator.  

Basics

• Exchange
• Digital asset market data website
• Uses the 0x Protocol
• CoinMarketCap competitor
• Also has GeckoTerminal, a DEX aggregator.

Team, funding, partners, etc

Team

• Daryl Lau; research analyst.

Funding

• Prisma; Coingecko founders were part of the first Prisma round (31-5-2023)
• Has CoinGecko Ventures.
• Axie Infinity; CoinGecko Ventures was part of a $7.5M raise (11-5-2021).
• Frontier. Participated in a $1.85M seed round for Frontier (1-9-2020).
• Lava; invested in a SAFT of Lava Foundation (7-5-2024).
• Paraswap. Participated in a $2.7M seed round for Paraswap (17-9-2020).
• Radicle; the founders are one of the backers named as an early supporter (17-2-2021).
• Shardeum; part of their $18.2M Seed Round (18-10-2022).
• Zapper. Participated in the $1.5M seed round, among many other participants (27-8-2020).

Partners

• Is a founding member of Asia DeFi Network (ADN) according to the website (13-7-2021).
• Is listed as a 'Cooperative Partner' on the website of Monero Classic (9-2019).
• Part of the WBTC community
• Affiliate partner with Changelly
• Is a partner with FTX, according to the About Us page of FTX (20-4-2020).
• Partner with Zap (9-3-2020)
• Is part of the Global DeFi Alliance, created by Huobi (15-9-2020).
• CoinGecko will be a critical partner (7-1-2021) in collaboration with the next iteration of BandChain Phase 2.
• Is mentioned as one of the partners to NEM and its new Symbol blockchain (12-3-2021).