Blockaid Funding, Investors & Competitors

Fireblocks is a New York-based digital asset infrastructure company whose platform lets banks, exchanges, fintechs, payment companies and asset managers store, transfer, issue and settle cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and tokenized assets. Its wallet infrastructure combines multi-party computation (MPC) with chip isolation security to remove single points of failure in private-key management, and the Fireblocks Network connects members to the crypto capital markets ecosystem for instant settlement. Customers have included BNY Mellon, Revolut, Galaxy Digital, Crypto.com, eToro and B2C2; by January 2022 the company had grown from 150 to more than 800 customers, supported more than 20 blockchains, had seen $2 trillion in digital assets transferred and held $45 billion of customer assets under custody on its platform. Fireblocks sells its software to institutions rather than holding assets on its own balance sheet. The company was founded in 2018 by Michael Shaulov, Pavel Berengoltz and Idan Ofrat and emerged from stealth in June 2019 with a $16 million Series A. It later raised a $30 million Series B led by Paradigm, a $133 million Series C, a $310 million Series D and a $550 million Series E in January 2022, co-led by D1 Capital Partners and Spark Capital, which valued it at $8 billion.

CertiK is a New York-based blockchain security auditor founded in 2018 by Yale and Columbia professors. The firm has secured over $200 billion in DeFi value through AI-driven smart contract audits and formal verification for protocols like Binance Smart Chain and Polygon. With 300 employees, it monitors 10,000 projects via Skynet platform, detecting exploits in real-time.

Alchemy is a blockchain developer platform powering over 70 percent of top web3 applications with APIs for Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism. Services include node infrastructure, enhanced APIs, and analytics dashboards used by OpenSea, Uniswap, and Dapper Labs. San Francisco-headquartered since 2020, the company processes 10 billion compute units monthly across 1 million daily active app chains.

Socure is a New York-headquartered provider of AI-powered digital identity verification and fraud prevention solutions. The Sigma platform performs KYC, AML screening, and biometric authentication using device intelligence and email validation. Financial institutions like Chime and Capital One rely on Socure for instant approvals at onboarding. The company processes billions of transactions annually and holds SOC 2 Type II compliance. Founded in 2012, Socure operates globally with data centers in the United States and Europe.

Celestia Labs develops Celestia, a modular layer-one blockchain designed to separate consensus and data availability from application execution. Developers use the network as a base for deploying custom chains and rollups without requiring every application to share one execution environment. The company builds protocol software, data-availability infrastructure, and engineering tools intended to increase blockchain throughput while preserving verifiability. Its strategy also extends toward design and engineering support for organizations that need application-specific chains. Celestia uses data-availability sampling so light nodes can verify that block data was published without downloading every transaction. The company serves protocol developers, digital-asset applications, and enterprises, with commercial activity tied to network usage, infrastructure services, and engineering support around the Celestia ecosystem.

Blockdaemon provides enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure, managing nodes and payment rails across networks. Los Angeles-headquartered since 2017, it enables seamless chain switching, portability, and DevOps support for the developer ecosystem.

Transmit Security is a Boston-headquartered customer identity and access management platform provider. The company delivers fraud prevention, passwordless authentication, and orchestration tools to banks like Barclays, insurers such as Allianz, and retailers including Walmart. Founded in 2018, Transmit Security processes trillions of identity transactions annually across web, mobile, and API channels.

BitSight is a Boston cybersecurity data and analytics company founded in 2011. It supplies security ratings and risk intelligence used by enterprises, insurers, investors and public-sector organizations. The platform measures observable security events and configurations to support vendor-risk management, performance benchmarking, cyber underwriting and portfolio monitoring. Customers buy recurring access to data, analytics and workflow products delivered through software and application programming interfaces. BitSight has expanded its underlying data and analytical capabilities through acquisitions. Its ratings are designed to give customers an external, continuously updated view of security performance across companies and supplier networks. Acquiring AnubisNetworks added real-time threat feeds, email intelligence, a global sensor network and a Porto engineering operation that became part of BitSight's core ratings data infrastructure.

Mitek Systems Inc is engaged in the development, sale, and service of proprietary software solutions related to mobile imaging. The firm is a software development company with expertise in artificial intelligence, and machine learning. It serves more than 7,900 financial services organizations, financial technology (fintech) brands, telecommunications companies, and marketplace brands across the globe. The company's Mobile Deposit solution is used by consumers for mobile check deposits. The company's Mobile Verify verifies a user's identity online, enabling organizations to build safer digital communities, whereas CheckReader enables financial institutions to automatically extract data from a check image received across any deposit channel - branch, ATM, RDC, and mobile.

Palo Alto Networks is a platform-based cybersecurity vendor with product offerings covering network security, cloud security, and security operations. The California-based firm has more than 80,000 enterprise customers across the world, including more than three fourths of the Global 2000.

IBM (International Business Machines) is an American technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and operating in more than 175 countries. It sells hybrid-cloud and AI software, including Red Hat and the watsonx portfolio, IT consulting services, and infrastructure hardware such as IBM Z mainframes. Its customers are mainly large enterprises and governments, and it earns revenue from software subscriptions and licences, consulting and managed-services contracts, and hardware sales and financing. In 2025 IBM reported revenue of $67.5 billion, up 8%, with software up 11%, consulting up 2% and infrastructure up 12%, and free cash flow of $14.7 billion. The company was founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company and renamed International Business Machines in 1924; it dominated mainframe computing with the System/360 and launched the IBM Personal Computer in 1981 before selling its PC division to Lenovo in 2005. More recently it bought Red Hat for $34 billion in 2019, spun off its managed infrastructure services unit as Kyndryl in 2021, and in December 2025 agreed to acquire data-streaming company Confluent for about $11 billion. Arvind Krishna is chairman and chief executive.

CrowdStrike is a cloud-native cybersecurity company specializing in security verticals such as endpoint, cloud workload, identity, and security operations. CrowdStrike's primary offering is its Falcon platform, which provides enterprises with a unified view to detect and respond to security threats across their IT infrastructure. The Austin, Texas-based firm was founded in 2011 and went public in 2019.

Cloudflare is a software company based in San Francisco, California, that offers security and web performance offerings by utilizing a distributed, serverless content delivery network, or CDN. The firm’s edge computing platform, Workers, leverages this network by providing clients the ability to deploy and execute code without maintaining servers.

Fortinet is a platform-based cybersecurity vendor with product offerings covering network security, cloud security, zero-trust access, and security operations. The firm derives a majority of its revenue through sales of its subscriptions and support-based business. The California-based firm has more than 800,000 customers across the world.

Strategy Inc is a bitcoin treasury company and a provider of business intelligence services. It is designed to provide investors varying degrees of economic exposure to Bitcoin by offering a range of securities, including equity and fixed-income instruments. The company also provides industry AI-powered enterprise analytics software. It has one reportable operating segment: the Software Business, which is engaged in the design, development, marketing, and sales of the company's enterprise analytics software platform through cloud subscriptions and licensing arrangements and related services (i.e., product support, consulting, and education). Geographically, the company operates in EMEA, U.S. and Other Regions, of which maximum revenue is derived from U.S..

Zscaler is a publicly listed cloud security software company founded in 2007 and headquartered in California. Its Zero Trust Exchange is a cloud-native platform that securely connects users, devices, applications and workloads without placing them on a traditional corporate network. The company sells subscription access to services for internet access security, private application access, data protection, cloud workload protection and digital experience monitoring. Zscaler primarily serves enterprises and public-sector organizations that are modernizing networks and moving applications and data to cloud environments. Its platform processes hundreds of billions of transactions per day and the company reports more than 11,000 customers, including over 40% of the Forbes Global 2000. Zscaler went public on Nasdaq under the ticker ZS in 2018. The business earns recurring software-as-a-service subscription and support revenue from organizations using its security cloud.

Safe Superintelligence is a Palo Alto-based AI firm building systems with embedded safety protocols. Launched in 2024, the company develops risk assessment frameworks and mitigation tools to ensure secure deployment of advanced models in enterprise settings.

Okta is a cloud-native security company that focuses on identity and access management. The San Francisco-based firm went public in 2017 and focuses on two key client stakeholder groups: workforces and customers. Okta’s workforce offerings enable a company’s employees to securely access its cloud-based and on-premises resources. The firm’s customer offerings allow its clients’ customers to securely access the client’s applications.