Deribit

About

Deribit is a bitcoin-only derivatives exchange for vanilla options and futures trading.

Ermelo,Gelderland,The Netherlands
https://www.deribit.com/

Highlights

Details

Last Funding Type: Series Unknown
Last Funding Money Raised: $40M
Industries: Bitcoin,Financial Services
Founded date: Mar 1, 2015
Operating Status: Active

Deribit is live since June 2016 after several years of development. John Jansen, the original founder, teamed up with Marius Jansen, Sebastian Smyczýnski and Andrew Yanovsky. Deribit started as a Bitcoin Futures and Options platform. Soon was realized more services could be offered due to the choices made regarding technology and infrastructure that powers the platform. These choices have resulted in a high availability, high throughput and low latency trading environment. Deribit is is expanding every day as we speak and new cryptocurrency trading products are under development. We have a team of 8 people working on the platform and we run our daily office from Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds

Total Funding Amount

2

$140M

Deribit has raised a total of $140M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Sep 27, 2022 from a Series Unknown round.

Announced Date	Round	Money Raised	Number of Investors	Lead Investors	Post Valuation
Sep 27, 2022	Series Unknown	$40M	3	—	—	Detail
Aug 21, 2022	Secondary Market	$100M	2	—	—	Detail

Investments

Number of Investments

Number of Lead Investments

4

2

Deribit has made 4 investments. Their most recent investment was on Mar 1, 2022, when Thetanuts Finance raised $18M.

Date Company Name	Round	Money Raised	Industry	Lead Investor
Mar 1, 2022 Thetanuts Finance	Seed	$18M	Blockchain	Yes
Jan 26, 2022 Colizeum	Series A	$8.40M	Apps	Yes
Aug 10, 2021 Horizen Labs	Seed	$7M	Blockchain	—
May 3, 2021 Qredo	Seed	$11M	Blockchain	—