TOP 100 COMPANIES
31
Plaid
Founded in 2013
CEO: Zach Perret
htps plaid:/ com. htps company www:/ / linkedin plaid-.
32
OpenSea
Founded in 2017
CEO: Devin Finzer
htps opensea:/ io /. htps company www:/ linkedin. opensea-io /
OpenSea operates a peer-to-peer NFT marketplace. Consumers can access its marketplace for minting, purchasing, and selling NFTs frictionlessly. Offering multi-chain options for creators and collectors to shape their NFT journeys individually, OpenSea’ s leadership team combines experience from the likes of Google, Lyft, Palantir, Uber, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley. Generating US $ 427.2m in total funding across eight rounds, OpenSea has become one of the industry’ s leading NFT marketplaces since its founding in 2017. Based in New York, OpenSea hopes to leverage open protocols like Ethereum and interoperable standards like ERC-721 and ERC-1155 to build a new world digital economy that allows consumers to trade their items freely.
Financial services company Plaid operates a technology platform that enables applications to directly connect with a user’ s bank account. Its proprietary technology allows consumers and businesses to connect with their bank accounts, check balances, and make payments through different channels. With a network covering more than 12,000 financial institutions across North America and Europe, significant Plaid partnerships include Venmo, SoFi, and Betterment. Once the subject of a proposed acquisition by Visa, Plaid has achieved marked success on its own footing, generating US $ 734.3m in funding across seven rounds.
Software Development
United States
Crypto and Blockchain
United States
46 2023