Pintu Funding, Investors & Competitors

Founded in 2012, Coinbase is the leading cryptocurrency exchange platform in the United States. The company intends to be the safe and regulation-compliant point of entry for retail investors and institutions into the cryptocurrency economy. Users can establish an account directly with the firm, instead of using an intermediary, and many choose to allow Coinbase to act as a custodian for their cryptocurrency, giving the company breadth beyond that of a traditional financial exchange. While the company still generates the majority of its revenue from transaction fees charged to its retail customers, Coinbase uses internal investment and acquisitions to expand into adjacent businesses, such as prime brokerage and data analytics.

Kraken is a San Francisco-headquartered cryptocurrency exchange supporting spot, futures, margin trading, staking, OTC services, and a multi-chain wallet. It lists over 200 assets including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana against fiat pairs like USD, EUR, and GBP. Institutional tools cover API trading, dark pools, and custody for hedge funds. Founded in 2011, Kraken operates in 190 countries with offices in London and Tokyo, serving retail and pro traders through advanced charting and 24/7 support.

KuCoin is a Chinese cryptocurrency exchange supporting spot, margin, futures trading, and staking for over 700 tokens. It caters to global traders with features like trading bots, API access, and fiat on-ramps via bank cards. KuCoin lists projects from Binance and Coinbase ecosystems. Launched in 2017, the platform maintains offices in Singapore and Hong Kong.

Mercado Bitcoin is Latin America's largest bitcoin exchange and Brazil's biggest crypto exchange by market valuation. Founded in 2013, it is part of the 2TM holding company, which also provides digital asset custody through Bitrust and multi-asset wallets through Meubank. The exchange had grown to more than 3 million clients by late 2021.

CoinList is a San Francisco-headquartered platform facilitating token launches for projects like Filecoin, Solana, Near, and Algorand. It supports trading, lending, staking of Bitcoin, Ether, and new assets for validators, miners, and retail users.

BTCS Inc is engaged in the business of hosting an online e-commerce marketplace where consumers can purchase merchandise using Digital Assets, including bitcoin. The company focuses on blockchain and Digital Asset ecosystems. The firm operates a beta e-commerce marketplace, which accepts a range of digital currencies, has designed a beta secure digital currency storage solution BTCS Wallet. The Company’s blockchain infrastructure operations include two primary revenue-generating activities: Ethereum block building and validator node operations.

Charles Schwab is one of the largest retail-oriented financial-services companies in the US, with $11.9 trillion in client assets across its brokerage, banking, asset management, custody, financial advisory, and wealth-management businesses at the end of 2025. While best known for its retail brokerage offering, Schwab generates the lion’s share of its revenue and profits through its Charles Schwab Bank and asset management segments. The firm is a dominant player in registered investment advisor custody, with over 40% market share, and has recently pushed into wealth management with robo-advisory, direct indexing, and other managed-investment solutions.

Robinhood Markets Inc is creating a modern financial services platform. It designs its own products and services and delivers them through a single, app-based cloud platform supported by proprietary technology. Its vertically integrated platform has enabled the introduction of new products and services such as cryptocurrency trading, dividend reinvestment, fraud detection, derivatives, fractional shares, recurring investments, and others.

Ripple is a San Francisco-headquartered blockchain company powering cross-border payments through the XRP Ledger. Its On-Demand Liquidity service settles transactions in 3-5 seconds for 100+ financial institutions including Santander, Standard Chartered, and SBI Holdings. Founded in 2012, Ripple processes $30 billion quarterly volume with software adopted by MoneyGram.

Founded in 2009, Block provides payment services to merchants, along with related services. The company also launched Cash App, a person-to-person payment network. In 2024, Square's payment volume was almost USD 250 million.

Interactive Brokers is a large, automated, retail and institutional brokerage that boasted nearly $780 billion in customer equity at the end of 2025. The company cut its teeth as a market maker, introducing US financial markets to automated and algorithmic training before expanding into brokerage services in 1993. The firm has a wide-ranging client base, with its best-in-class order execution and extremely low margin lending rates catering to a sophisticated audience of hedge funds, proprietary traders, and introducing brokers that account for about 45% of the firm’s commissions. With operations spanning more than 160 electronic exchanges, 36 countries, and 28 currencies, Interactive Brokers caters to a global clientele, with more than 80% of active accounts sitting outside the US.

OKX is a Seychelles-headquartered cryptocurrency exchange ranking second globally by trading volume. It supports 350-plus tokens and 100 fiat currencies, offering spot trading, futures, and an NFT marketplace. OKX releases monthly Proof of Reserves and provides a Web3 wallet for decentralized assets, serving professional traders worldwide.

Hithink RoyalFlush Information Network Co Ltd is engaged in providing Internet financial information services and online financial software. The company's business includes an online market trading system, mobile financial information service, fund sales, financial big data processing, and cloud services. It serves individuals, brokers, funds, private placements, banks, insurance, government, and research Institutional clients.

Circle Internet Group Inc is a financial technology firm engaged in digital currencies and public blockchains for payments, commerce, and financial applications. The company's platform is a full-stack, internet financial platform business, organized around three pillars: Arc Blockchain and Developer Infrastructure, Circle Digital Assets and Services, and Circle Applications.

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in New York City, Tradeweb Markets is a leading fixed-income trading platform. While it does offer electronic processing for some voice-negotiated trades, the company focuses primarily on providing electronic trading networks that connect broker/dealers, institutional clients, and retail customers. While the company offers trading in a wide variety of products, the bulk of its business is in US and European government debt, mortgage-backed securities, interest-rate swaps, and US and international corporate bonds. The firm also sells fixed-income trading and price data, primarily through a deal with Refinitiv’s Eikon service.

Crypto.com is a Singapore-headquartered cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2016. The platform facilitates buying, selling, and trading more than 350 cryptocurrencies and tokens across spot, derivatives, and perpetual futures markets. Users access on-chain staking for assets like Ethereum and Cosmos, earn interest through flexible savings accounts, and build diversified portfolios with crypto baskets tracking indices such as DeFi or metaverse sectors. Crypto.com issues the Crypto.com Visa Card available in multiple tiers with cashback rewards up to 8 percent. The company powers fiat on-ramps in over 30 countries including USD, EUR, and GBP pairs. It operates the Cronos blockchain for DeFi applications and runs an NFT marketplace featuring collections from artists and brands. Crypto.com holds naming rights to Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles and partners with Formula 1.

Futu Holdings Ltd is an online broker providing one-stop online investing services. The company provides its services through its digital platform Futu NiuNiu, which includes market data, trading service, and news feed of Hong Kong, Mainland China, Singapore, and the United States equity markets. It generates its revenue in the form of brokerage commission and handling charge services, and interest income.

BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc is a Bitcoin and Ethereum Network Company with a focus on the accumulation of Crypto for long term investment, whether acquired by its Bitcoin mining operations or from the proceeds of capital raising transactions. Company business lines include Bitcoin Mining, Synthetic Bitcoin mining through involvement in Bitcoin mining, hashrate as a financial product, offering advisory and mining services to companies interested in earning Bitcoin denominated revenues, and general Bitcoin advisory to public companies. BitMine’s operations are located in low-cost energy regions in Trinidad; Pecos, Texas; and Silverton, Texas.