NAUT tracks 14 crypto incubators and accelerators that fund early-stage crypto startups, read from NAUT's database on 2 November 2026, and NAUT's data holds an average round size for all 14, from $80,000 at Adaverse to $16.53M at Binance Labs. Across the 14 funds, NAUT's data shows 513 portfolio entries and $2.11B of capital deployed, and every fund below links to its own NAUT page with its portfolio and its team.
How this crypto incubator list was built: on 2 November 2026, NAUT's database held 19 live rows tagged fundType = Incubation, 18 of them typed as investors and 1 typed as a project. The tag is a lead, so each row's own description was read against the title of this list, an incubator or accelerator that funds early-stage crypto startups, and 5 rows were dropped: Lunar Strategy (its own description calls it a Web3 marketing and growth agency), Decubate Ventures (a launchpad and no-code token tooling platform), Polygon Studios (a business development arm connecting consumer brands to NFTs), Skry Labs (boilerplate with no statement that it funds startups) and Solana Foundation (a non-profit giving grants inside an existing ecosystem, and typed as a project). The 14 that remain are below. Average round is NAUT's stored average over each fund's rounds that disclosed an amount, so for several funds it covers fewer deals than the portfolio count.
Which crypto incubators fund early-stage crypto startups?
All 14 below say in their own NAUT description that they invest in, incubate or accelerate early-stage crypto and Web3 companies. Working out which incubators fund early-stage crypto startups at your size starts with the cheque, so the table is ranked by the average round size NAUT records, largest first.
| Incubator | What it is | Portfolio | Avg round |
|---|---|---|---|
 Binance Labs |
Venture arm and incubator of the Binance exchange | 106 | $16.53M |
 Faculty Group |
Collective of Web3 companies with a venture and incubation arm | 4 | $14.0M |
 Alliance DAO |
Crypto accelerator and founder community with a demo day | 201 | $9.47M |
 Gate Labs |
Venture arm of the Gate.io exchange | 10 | $6.89M |
 Tané Labs |
Crypto builders incubator, United Arab Emirates | 1 | $5.4M |
 Maven Capital |
Funds and advises crypto startups from seed onward | 61 | $3.89M |
 Magnus Capital |
Venture firm with advisory and incubation services | 76 | $3.58M |
 TechStars |
Global pre-seed accelerator network, Web3 among its sectors | 1 | $3.5M |
 Basics Capital |
Early-stage fund for application-layer crypto | 43 | $3.05M |
 ChainGPT Labs |
Incubator and fund for AI, DeFi and DePIN startups | 3 | $541,000 |
 Oblivion Labs |
Incubation studio for token design and fundraising | 2 | $525,000 |
 ZeroStage |
Venture studio and accelerator for DeFi, GameFi and Web3 | 1 | $512,000 |
 Y Combinator |
Generalist startup accelerator that also backs crypto | 3 | $325,000 |
 Adaverse |
Accelerator for blockchain startups in Asia, the Middle East and Africa | 1 | $80,000 |
Portfolio counts are the companies each fund's NAUT page carries, so a company backed by 2 of these funds is counted on both pages. 4 of the 14 are the venture or incubation arm of a larger business: Binance Labs at the Binance exchange, Gate Labs at Gate.io, ChainGPT Labs at ChainGPT Pad and Faculty Group inside a group of Web3 service companies.
Crypto incubators by average round size on NAUT
The largest average is more than 200 times the smallest, so the 2 groups raise money for different jobs. 9 of the 14 average above $3M a round, which is seed territory, and 5 average under $600,000, which is where a pre-seed or a strategic cheque sits. A founder reading the chart should match the number to the round being raised before writing to anyone.
What this tells a BD or sourcing team
- 513 portfolio entries sit behind these 14 pages, so each fund page is a ready list of funded teams to approach.
- Alliance DAO with 201 companies, Binance Labs with 106, Magnus Capital with 76, Maven Capital with 61 and Basics Capital with 43 carry 487 of the 513 entries between them.
- The 4 exchange-linked and group-linked arms, Binance Labs, Gate Labs, ChainGPT Labs and Faculty Group, come with a listing, launchpad or services business attached, which is a second reason for a seller to be in the room.
- NAUT holds 13 current founder, chief executive or managing director contacts at 3 of the 14 funds on 2 November 2026, and 10 of those 13 have their own NAUT person page.
- Pick by cheque size9 of the 14 average above $3M a round, 5 average under $600,000.
- Open the fund pageAlliance DAO carries 201 portfolio companies and Binance Labs 106.
- Shortlist the funded teams513 portfolio entries sit across the 14 pages.
- Find the personNAUT holds 13 current founder or managing director contacts at 3 of the 14 funds.
What this tells a founder raising a pre-seed round
- The 5 smallest averages, ChainGPT Labs at $541,000, Oblivion Labs at $525,000, ZeroStage at $512,000, Y Combinator at $325,000 and Adaverse at $80,000, are the ones whose recorded rounds match a first cheque.
- 2 of the 14 are generalist programmes rather than crypto-only funds, Y Combinator and TechStars, so a crypto pitch there competes with every other sector.
- Geography is on the record for 5 of the 14: Adaverse in Hong Kong, Tané Labs and ZeroStage in the United Arab Emirates, and TechStars and Y Combinator in the United States. The other 9 have no country on NAUT's record.
- Sector focus is on the record for 2: ChainGPT Labs in AI, L1 to L3, intelligence and launchpads, and Gate Labs in L1 to L3 and centralized exchanges.
- Size the roundMatch your ask to the fund's average: $80,000 at Adaverse up to $16.53M at Binance Labs.
- Check the fitSector focus is on NAUT's record for 2 of the 14, and a country for 5 of the 14.
- Read the portfolio513 portfolio entries show what each programme has already funded.
- Ask for the warm introThe 10 contacts with a NAUT person page are the route in.
Who runs these crypto incubators, and who do you contact?
NAUT's data shows 13 current founder, chief executive or managing director contacts at 3 of the 14 funds on 2 November 2026, after 2 rows were set aside because their stored names are scraped fragments rather than real names and 2 more because their stored title is not a current role at the fund, one of them a former co-founder. 10 of the 13 have a NAUT person page, and these are the named ones a founder or a seller can research before asking for an introduction.
Y Combinator, 9 people on NAUT: Garry Tan is CEO, President and a group partner; Dalton Caldwell, Harj Taggar, Jared Friedman and Michael Seibel are managing directors and group partners; Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Robert Tappan Morris and Trevor Blackwell are the co-founders. Wikipedia's page on the firm, read on 2 November 2026, says "Y Combinator was founded in March 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Robert Tappan Morris, and Trevor Blackwell".
Gate Labs, 1 person on NAUT: Han Lin, Founder and CEO of Gate.io, the exchange the fund sits inside.
Alliance DAO, 3 people on NAUT: Imran Khan, co-founder and core contributor; Jacob Franek, co-founder and chief operating officer; and Qiao Wang, co-founder and partner. None of the 3 has a NAUT person page, so the fund page is the route to them. Anyone listed can ask NAUT to remove their page at https://naut.so/legal/data-deletion.
How is a crypto incubator different from a venture fund?
An incubator or accelerator runs a programme: a cohort, mentors, a demo day, and a small standard cheque at the start, with follow-on money later. A venture fund prices a round. The split shows in NAUT's numbers for these blockchain incubators: the 5 programme-style rows average under $600,000 a round, while the exchange arms and the hybrid firms that also price rounds average $3.05M to $16.53M. NAUT held 18 live investor-typed rows tagged Incubation on 2 November 2026, and 14 of them passed this list's filter.
Related reading on NAUT: Crypto accelerators: 74 startups in 6 cohorts, 21 in trading and How to find startup investors: 5 free ways, 1 paid.
Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?
Yes. The same set behind this article comes back from GET https://api.naut.so/v1/investors?fundType=Incubation&sort=portfolio with an Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY header, and one fund with its team and portfolio comes from GET https://api.naut.so/v1/investors/alliance-dao, at 5 credits a call on the plans listed at naut.so/pricing, with the parameters documented at naut.so/docs/api. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn addresses for the people on these pages unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial to reveal them.
Crypto incubators FAQ
Which crypto incubators fund early-stage crypto startups?
On 2 November 2026, NAUT tracks 14 crypto incubators and accelerators that fund early-stage crypto startups: Binance Labs, Alliance DAO, Magnus Capital, Maven Capital, Basics Capital, Gate Labs, Faculty Group, ChainGPT Labs, Y Combinator, Oblivion Labs, Adaverse, Tané Labs, TechStars and ZeroStage. They hold 513 portfolio entries and $2.11B of capital deployed on NAUT's record.
How much do crypto incubators invest per round?
The average round size NAUT records for these 14 web3 accelerators and incubators runs from $80,000 at Adaverse to $16.53M at Binance Labs, measured on 2 November 2026. 9 of the 14 average above $3M a round and 5 average under $600,000, and the figure covers only each fund's rounds that disclosed an amount.
How many crypto incubators does NAUT track?
NAUT held 19 live rows tagged as Incubation on 2 November 2026, and 14 of them are incubators or accelerators that fund early-stage crypto startups. The 5 left out are a marketing agency, a launchpad platform, a brand partnerships arm, a row with no investment statement in its description and an ecosystem grant foundation.
Where can I find these incubators' partners and their contact channels?
NAUT holds 13 current founder, chief executive or managing director contacts at 3 of these 14 funds, and 10 have their own NAUT person page, such as Garry Tan at Y Combinator and Han Lin at Gate Labs. Search them on naut.so or pull them with GET https://api.naut.so/v1/investors/y-combinator, and their verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial to reveal them.
Sources
- NAUT's own database, read read-only on 2 November 2026: every company row tagged
fundType = Incubation, with its portfolio count, average round, capital deployed, country, sectors and its contacts whose role is founder, chief executive, managing partner or managing director. - Each fund's own description on its NAUT page, read on 2 November 2026, which is what the filter above was applied to.
- Y Combinator on Wikipedia, read on 2 November 2026, for the firm's founding date and founders.