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Cryptocurrency market data provider offering institutional-grade analytics and indices for institutional investors, financial services firms, and.
Kaiko has raised $77.0M across 2 funding rounds.
Key people at Kaiko.
Kaiko was founded in 2014 by Pascal Gauthier (Founder).
Kaiko has raised $77.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Kaiko provides cryptocurrency market data, analytics, and indices to institutional investors, financial services firms, and regulators, operating globally with offices in New York, London, Singapore, and Paris. The company serves over 200 enterprise clients, delivering institutional-grade, compliant data solutions for digital asset market participants. In June 2022, Kaiko raised $53 million in Series B funding, led by Eight Roads, to further expand its global operations and product offerings. Key leadership includes CEO Ambre Soubiran, who acquired the company in 2016, along with CPTO Karamvir Singh and COO Elodie de Marchi. Founded in 2014, Kaiko began its data collection efforts in 2013, with Soubiran becoming the controlling owner and CEO in 2016. Its business model centers on enterprise data and analytics services for institutional clients in crypto finance and regulated sectors.
Kaiko was founded in 2014 by Pascal Gauthier (Founder).
Kaiko has raised $77.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Kaiko's investors include Eight Roads, Alven, Balderton Capital, CMFG Ventures, Foundation Capital, SparkLabs Group, Underscore VC, Josh Resnick, Zachary Hargreaves, Anthemis, Point Nine Capital, Revaia.
Key people at Kaiko.
Kaiko has raised $77.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $53.0M Series B in June 2022.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2022 | $53M Series B | Eight Roads | Alven, Balderton Capital, CMFG Ventures, Foundation Capital, Sparklabs Group, Underscore VC, Josh Resnick, Zachary Hargreaves, Anthemis, Point Nine Capital, Revaia | Announced |
| Jun 1, 2021 | $24M Series A | Underscore VC, Sean Park | Alven, CMFG Ventures, Foundation Capital, Sparklabs Group, Josh Resnick, HashKey Capital, Point Nine Capital | Announced |
Kaiko is a Paris-based technology company founded in 2014 that provides institutional-grade cryptocurrency market data, analytics, indices, and research to bridge traditional finance and blockchain ecosystems.[1][2][3][5][6] It serves institutional investors, financial institutions, crypto-native enterprises, regulators, exchanges, and researchers by delivering real-time and historical data on over 10,000 currency pairs across 70+ exchanges via APIs, WebSockets, and cloud feeds, solving the challenge of fragmented, unreliable digital asset data for trading, risk management, compliance, and surveillance.[1][2][3][6] With $82.52M raised across funding rounds, Kaiko has achieved strong growth, including recent expansions into MiCA-compliant solutions, on-chain perpetual markets, and real-time equity rates as of late 2025.[2][6]
Kaiko was founded in 2014 in Paris, France, amid the early rise of cryptocurrency markets, positioning itself as a data provider for the emerging blockchain-based digital assets space.[1][2][3][5][6] While specific founder names are not detailed in available sources, the company emerged to address the need for normalized, enterprise-grade data infrastructure as crypto trading fragmented across exchanges like Binance, Coinbase Pro, and Kraken.[1][3] Early traction came from building the most extensive historical datasets—over five years of raw trade, order books, and aggregates—catapulting Kaiko to leadership, evidenced by its recognition as a top player alongside Chainalysis and Coin Metrics, and funding from investors like Point Nine Capital, Anthemis, and Alven.[2][5] Pivotal moments include integrations with exchanges like Bullish and expansions into analytics for fair value pricing and compliance.[5][6]
Kaiko rides the wave of institutional crypto adoption and tokenization trends, capitalizing on maturing regulations like MiCA and the explosion of on-chain finance, stablecoin trading (now 5% on DEXs), and 24/7 global markets.[2][6] Its timing aligns with blockchain's integration into traditional finance—covering fragmented exchanges and expanding to equities—enabling risk management amid volatile assets and DeFi growth.[1][3][6] Market forces like rising demand for compliant data from investors and regulators favor Kaiko, as it influences the ecosystem by powering analytics for platforms, surveillance for compliance, and oracles for perpetual markets, solidifying crypto's infrastructure layer.[2][6]
Kaiko is poised to dominate as the go-to data layer for tokenized assets and AI-driven finance, with expansions into equity rates and on-chain infrastructure signaling a pivot beyond pure crypto.[6] Trends like regulatory clarity, RWA tokenization, and perpetuals growth will propel it, potentially doubling revenue through new partnerships and global hospital-like validations in finance.[3][6] Its influence may evolve from data provider to ecosystem orchestrator, much like how it started with fragmented exchanges—now scaling to redefine 24/7 markets for institutions.[1][2][6] This positions Kaiko as essential infrastructure in digital assets' mainstream era.
