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Crypto company parent company: 24 links on NAUT, 4 steps

By NAUT Research · · 11 min read

24 Parent company links of 10,592 live NAUT companies store one, and the 4 steps that use them. Logos: Coinbase, Solana, Binance, Ethereum, Uniswap, Cardano, NEAR Protocol, Jump Trading.

A crypto company parent company check runs in 4 steps before you pitch: open the startup's NAUT page and read the parent it stores, read the startup's own name for the parent's name, read which NAUT section the row sits in, then source the acquisition or the rename on an outside page. NAUT stores a parent on 24 of its 10,592 live, unarchived company rows as of 11 November 2026, and those 24 arms belong to 22 distinct parents, so a stored link answers the question at 24 companies and the other steps have to answer it everywhere else.

Data note. Every count here was read from NAUT's own database on 11 November 2026, read-only. 25 company rows carry a value in the parent field, and 24 of those 25 are live and unarchived, which is the set this article uses. 3 of the 24 links were put to outside pages, all 3 came back confirmed, and the wording was located on 2 of those pages. The other 21 links were never read outside NAUT, so each of those is NAUT's own record rather than a sourced fact. NAUT Research wrote it.

How to check a crypto company parent company in 4 steps

The question a BD lead actually needs answered is who signs, and that sits with the parent whenever the startup is an arm of a larger company.

  • A stored parent link is the fast answer and a rare one. 24 of NAUT's 10,592 live company rows carry one, so 4 steps beat 1 field.
  • The name is the next best signal. 22 of the 24 arms carry their parent's full stored name, and the other 2 share its first word: Jump Crypto under Jump Trading, and NEAR Foundation under NEAR Protocol.
  • The section tells you what the arm does. 22 of the 24 sit under NAUT's investors section, so the row you found may write cheques rather than buy software.
  • A rename hides the link. Coinbase Token Manager (prev. LiquiFi) carried a startup name with no parent in it until February 2026.
The 4-step parent check
  1. Read the parent fieldNAUT stores a parent on 24 of its 10,592 live company rows, and the child's page names it.
  2. Read the name22 of the 24 arms carry the parent's full stored name, as Binance Labs carries Binance.
  3. Read the section22 of the 24 arms sit under NAUT's investors section, so check what the arm is for before you pitch it.
  4. Source the renameCoinbase Token Manager (prev. LiquiFi) was an independent startup until Coinbase bought it in July 2025.

Step 1: read the parent the record already stores

Open the company on NAUT and look for the parent on the row. Where the field is filled, the pitch target moves straight to the parent: Coinbase Ventures and Coinbase Token Manager (prev. LiquiFi) both point at Coinbase, so 1 relationship covers both rows. The field is filled on 24 rows, which is the whole list below, and it is empty on the rest of NAUT's 10,592 live company rows. Crypto company ownership sits in that 1 field, so a filled one saves the next 3 steps and an empty one says nothing either way.

Step 2: read the arm's own name

8 of the 24 arms end in Foundation, 8 in Ventures and 5 in Labs. That leaves 3 named in wording of their own: Jump Crypto, Zilliqa Capital and Coinbase Token Manager (prev. LiquiFi). A Foundation or a Ventures suffix is a lead worth 30 seconds of checking, and it is not proof on its own. Where the wording does hold, it tells you the arm's job: Binance Labs is described on Binance's own blog, read on 11 November 2026, as the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance.

Step 3: read which NAUT section the row sits in

22 of the 24 arms sit under NAUT's investors section and 2 sit under projects, Solana Foundation and Coinbase Token Manager (prev. LiquiFi). The parents sit differently: 19 of the 22 under projects, Coinbase and MEXC under services, and Jump Trading under investors. A pitch to an investors-section arm is a fundraise conversation, and the same company's operating team is a different row and a different person.

Step 4: source the acquisition or the rename

This is the part of crypto startup research that a directory cannot do for you: a stored link is a record, and the reason behind it lives on an outside page. Coinbase Token Manager (prev. LiquiFi) is the clearest case in the 24: Coinbase acquired the token management startup Liquifi, announced on 2 July 2025, and the rebrand landed on 28 February 2026, when a news flash read on 11 November 2026 recorded that "Coinbase acquired the token management platform Liquifi and rebranded it as Coinbase Token Manager on February 28". Jump Crypto is the other sourced case: its own introduction page, read on 11 November 2026, describes Jump Trading Group as "a research-driven quantitative trading firm with over 1,000 employees globally", established in 1999.

All 24 live links as of 11 November 2026, sorted by the parent's name. Step 3 above has the section each side sits in.

Arm listed on NAUT Parent on NAUT

2 of the 22 parents hold 2 listed arms each, Coinbase with Coinbase Ventures and Coinbase Token Manager (prev. LiquiFi), and Solana with Solana Foundation and Solana Ventures. The other 20 parents hold 1 arm each on this list.

What does the arm's name tell you about its owner?

Ranked by how many of the 24 arms use each wording. Every example arm's parent is in the table above.

Wording in the arm's name Arms Example arm
Foundation 8
Ventures 8
Labs 5
Wording of its own 3

The 3 arms in the last row are named without any of those 3 words: Jump Crypto, Zilliqa Capital and Coinbase Token Manager (prev. LiquiFi). The suffix is a lead and the stored link is the record, so the name sends you to the parent's page and the page settles it.

Why does a crypto company parent company change your pitch?

  • The signer moves. A vendor contract, a token listing and a partnership at a crypto subsidiary can all land in the parent's process, and 2 of the 22 parents here run 2 listed arms each.
  • The budget moves with it. 22 of the 24 arms sit in NAUT's investors section, where the output is a cheque rather than a purchase order.
  • The owner may not be crypto-native. Jump Crypto is the crypto unit of Jump Trading, a quantitative trading firm established in 1999, so the compliance and procurement path is a trading firm's.
  • A rename resets your research. The row now called Coinbase Token Manager (prev. LiquiFi) was an independent startup through to the July 2025 acquisition.
  • Duplicate outreach is visible. 2 notes into Coinbase Ventures and Coinbase Token Manager (prev. LiquiFi) reach 1 company.
How a BD team works a parent link
  1. Pitch the owner's processCoinbase Ventures and Coinbase Token Manager (prev. LiquiFi) both sit under Coinbase.
  2. Count the arms first2 of the 22 parents run 2 listed arms each, Coinbase and Solana.
  3. Check what the arm is for22 of the 24 arms sit in NAUT's investors section, so a product pitch may belong elsewhere in the group.
  4. Open the team on the right rowEach NAUT page names the people on that row, so 1 note goes to 1 named person.

Who owns LiquiFi now? The worked example

Coinbase Token Manager (prev. LiquiFi) is the case the 4 steps were built on, because 3 of the 4 steps miss it and the 4th catches it.

  • Step 1 catches it. The row stores Coinbase as its parent, and Coinbase sits in NAUT's services section with its own team.
  • Step 2 catches it today and missed it before. The current name carries Coinbase in it, and the previous name, LiquiFi, carried nothing.
  • Step 3 reads oddly here. The arm sits under projects and the parent under services, so this is an operating product rather than an investment arm, which is the opposite of the 22 arms in the investors section.
  • Step 4 settles it. A news flash read on 11 November 2026 recorded that "Coinbase acquired the token management platform Liquifi and rebranded it as Coinbase Token Manager on February 28", and reporting of the original deal is dated 2 July 2025.

NAUT's data shows the row's own summary as Enterprise Token Management Solutions, with the X account @cbtokenmanager and the liquifi.finance domain still on file. For a BD lead that means the product is live, the buyer sits inside Coinbase, and the people to reach are on Coinbase as well as on the arm's own page.

Related reading on NAUT: How to find decision makers in a company: 5 steps for crypto and Coinbase Ventures portfolio: 152 companies tracked on NAUT.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes, 1 row at a time: GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/coinbase-token-manager-prev-liquifi returns the worked example with its team, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/services/coinbase returns the parent with its own team, each at 5 credits with an Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY header. The 24 parent links in the table above were read from NAUT's database rather than from a documented API field, so the API step is the team on each side of a link you already have. Keys and endpoints are at naut.so/docs/api and plans start at $49 a month for 3,000 credits at naut.so/pricing. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn on those people unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial to open them.

Crypto company parent company FAQ

How to find out who owns a crypto startup before you pitch it?

Run 4 checks: the parent field on its NAUT page, the parent's name inside the startup's own name, the NAUT section the row sits in, and an outside page for the acquisition or rename. NAUT stored a parent on 24 of its 10,592 live company rows on 11 November 2026, and 22 of those 24 arms carry their parent's full stored name, so the first 2 checks resolve most of this list in under a minute.

How many crypto companies on NAUT store a parent company?

24 live, unarchived company rows out of 10,592 on 11 November 2026, pointing at 22 distinct parents. 25 rows carry a value in the field in total, and the 25th is archived or merged, so it stays out of this article.

No. 8 of the 24 arms are foundations and 8 are venture arms set up by the parent, and an acquisition is the reason in the sourced case of Coinbase Token Manager (prev. LiquiFi), bought by Coinbase in a deal announced on 2 July 2025. 3 of the 24 links were put to outside pages for this article, so the reason behind the other 21 is NAUT's record rather than a sourced one.

Where can I find these 24 arms, their parents and the people to contact at each?

On NAUT. Each of the 24 arms and each of the 22 parents has its own page with the people on that row, the table above links all 46 of them, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/services/coinbase pulls a parent with its team at 5 credits. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial if you need the channels as well as the names.

Sources

  • NAUT's own database, read on 11 November 2026, read-only: the live, unarchived company rows, the parent field on each, and the section each row sits in. Every count above was computed from those rows at that time.
  • A news flash on the Coinbase Token Manager launch, kucoin.com/news/flash/coinbase-launches-token-manager-for-institutional-token-management, read on 11 November 2026, with reporting of the original acquisition dated 2 July 2025 at theblock.co.
  • Jump Crypto's own introduction page, jumpcrypto.com/resources/introducing-jump-crypto, read on 11 November 2026, for the description of Jump Trading Group.
  • Binance's own blog post on Binance Labs incubation, binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem, read on 11 November 2026, which describes Binance Labs as the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, with a 2018 TechCrunch report of the programme as the second source.

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