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Launchpad startups funding: 16 platforms, $1.37B, 1 took 97.6%

By NAUT Research · · 9 min read

$1.37B Launchpad funding raised in 38 of 42 rounds at 16 launchpad platforms, 1 January 2024 to 11 November 2026. Logos: Pump.fun, ZAP, MOBY, eesee, Dappad, Bitdealer, BlastOff, Trailblaze, Dexlab, Byin, Starter, Bullshot, Forest Protocol, Flash Protocol, Star AI, Astarter.

NAUT tracks 42 launchpad startups funding rounds, money raised by the launchpad platforms themselves, since 1 January 2024, and the 38 that carry an amount total $1.37B across 16 companies. Pump.fun accounts for $1,337.25M of that, 97.6% of the disclosed total, which leaves $33.09M for the other 15 platforms.

Data read from NAUT's funding records on 11 November 2026. This report counts money raised into the launchpad business, not the token sales those platforms host for other teams. The starting set is the 198 companies carrying NAUT's Launchpad sector tag, of which 30 have a round dated 1 January 2024 or later (97 rounds, 93 with an amount, $1,437,335,459) and 168 have no round in the window. Reading each of the 30 rows against its own stored description leaves 16 launchpad businesses with 42 rounds; 13 companies with 39 rounds between them are out because their own description names a different product (a token project, an AI tool, a SubDAO, a DAO tracker, an NFT marketplace), and 1 more is out for a reason of its own: Legion Ventures is an investor row whose own description calls it early-stage venture capital with no launchpad product, so its 16 rounds are portfolio deals rather than funding into a launchpad. 16 plus 13 plus 1 is the 30, and 42 plus 39 plus 16 is the 97. 2 of the 16 sit on their own description's wording for issuing assets rather than the word launchpad: Flash Protocol, a Taproot-powered Bitcoin NFT issuance platform, and Star AI, an AI digital-human incubation and asset issuance platform running merlinstarter.com. 14 claims from this data were put to outside sources: 8 came back confirmed, 4 contradicted and 2 not found, and the 2 contradicted titles are left out of this report. NAUT Research wrote this report; no one paid for it.

Which launchpad startups funding rounds closed since 2024?

Ranked by the disclosed total each platform has raised into its own business since 1 January 2024, on NAUT's record. Each description is the platform's own stored line on NAUT, and the rounds column counts rounds dated 1 January 2024 or later.

Platform Description Rounds Disclosed
Solana marketplace for creating and distributing tokens 8 $1,337.25M
Questing and airdrops protocol, token launcher, curated launchpad 3 $15.18M
Launchpad platform 1 $8.74M
IDO launchpad with raffle-style token distribution 3 $3.11M
zkSync-native launchpad for onboarding users 5 $1.85M
Asset-backed meme launchpad on Solana 3 $1.25M
Native-yield launchpad and yield aggregator 4 $0.78M
Decentralised Web3 launchpad 5 $0.77M
Solana token minting lab, launchpad and DEX 1 $0.6M
One-click meme launchpad on TON 2 $0.25M
Launchpad, part of the Labs ecosystem 1 $0.24M
Token launchpad 1 $0.15M
Launchpad and AMM on BNB Chain 1 $0.1M
Bitcoin NFT issuance platform, powered by Taproot 2 $0.08M
AI digital-human incubation and asset issuance platform 1 $0.01M
Cardano DeFi infrastructure hub and launchpad ecosystem 1 No amount on record

4 of the 42 rounds carry no amount on NAUT's record: 3 of Pump.fun's 8 rows and Astarter's June 2026 round. The 42 rounds split 27 in 2024, 13 in 2025 and 2 in 2026.

How much launchpad startups funding went through a token sale?

Most of these rounds are public token sales rather than equity, which is why so few carry a named investor.

Round type Rounds With amount Disclosed
IDO 20 20 $613.08M
Private placement 5 5 $721.15M
IEO 13 10 $18.15M
Funding or seed 3 2 $17.95M
KOL round 1 1 $0.02M

The 5 private placements include Pump.fun's $720M, 2 at Dappad ($150,000 on 24 February 2024 and $700,000 on 6 March 2024), 1 at BlastOff and 1 at Bitdealer. Only 3 of the 42 rounds are typed as a conventional funding round or seed: ZAP's $15M on 12 July 2024, eesee's $2.95M seed and private round on 10 January 2024, and Astarter's undisclosed June 2026 round.

Why does 1 platform hold 97.6% of it?

Pump.fun's 8 rows are all dated 12 July 2025, the day of its PUMP token sale, and 5 of them carry an amount totalling $1,337.25M. Round type and amount are as NAUT stores them.

Round type Amount Outside check
IDO $600M Confirmed, 12 July 2025
Private $720M Confirmed, week of 12 July 2025
IEO $12.5M Came back not found
IEO $4M Came back not found
IEO $750,000 Not checked
IEO No amount on record Not checked
IEO No amount on record Not checked
IEO No amount on record Not checked

The 2 largest rows hold separately. Unchained reported the public sale of the PUMP token taking $600M in about 12 minutes on 12 July 2025, and the same report sets a private sale earlier that week beside it, putting the week's total sale at $1.32B. That $1.32B is the $720M private placement plus the $600M public sale, so NAUT's 2 rows are 2 halves of 1 week rather than 1 raise counted twice. The $12.5M and $4M IEO rows were each put to outside sources and both checks came back not found, so treat those 2 rows as NAUT's record awaiting a source: without them the disclosed total is $1,353.84M and Pump.fun's share is $1,320.75M.

How much launchpad startups funding did the other 15 platforms raise?

Disclosed funding per platform, the 14 of 15 outside Pump.fun with an amount
  1. ZAP$15.18M
  2. MOBY$8.74M
  3. eesee$3.105M
  4. Dappad$1.85M
  5. Bitdealer$1.25M
  6. BlastOff$0.78M
  7. Trailblaze$0.765M
  8. Dexlab$0.6M
  9. Byin$0.245M
  10. Starter$0.24M
  11. Bullshot$0.15M
  12. Forest Protocol$0.1M
  13. Flash Protocol$0.075M
  14. Star AI$0.01M

The 15 platforms outside Pump.fun raised $33.09M across 33 of their 34 rounds, and ZAP, MOBY and eesee took $27.03M of it, 81.7%. Astarter is the 1 of the 15 with no amount on record.

What launchpad startups funding tells a BD team

How a BD team can work these 16 platforms
  1. Split by raise size4 platforms raised over $3M, and 9 of the 16 raised under $1M since 2024.
  2. Start with 2025 and 20266 platforms raised in those 2 years, from Bullshot in April 2026 to Bitdealer's 3 rounds in November 2025.
  3. Pick the chain you sell toByin is TON, Forest Protocol is BNB Chain, Astarter is Cardano.
  4. Open the team page9 of the 16 carry a named person on NAUT, such as Roni BEPARI, Head of IDO Business Development at Starter.

What this tells a founder picking a launchpad

  • A launchpad's own raise is public, and small. 9 of the 16 platforms have taken under $1M into the business since 2024, so a founder running a sale on one is often working with a team thinner than their own.
  • Crypto launchpad investors barely appear in these rounds. 2 of the 42 rounds carry an investor on NAUT's record: eesee's seed and private round names Maven Capital, Momentum 6 and SevenX Ventures, and ZAP's 12 July 2024 round names Cypher Capital, Presto Labs and Larry Cermak. An empty list is NAUT holding no investor for that row, not proof that none existed.
  • 33 of the 42 rounds are token sales. 20 IDOs and 13 IEOs leave 9 rounds of private, seed or venture money, which is why a cap table is the wrong question to ask most of these platforms.
  • The venture-style money went to 3 names. ZAP's $15M on 12 July 2024 is the largest round outside Pump.fun, followed by MOBY's $8.74M IDO on 1 February 2024 and eesee's $2.95M seed and private round on 10 January 2024.
How a founder can read a launchpad before using it
  1. Check what it raised9 of the 16 platforms took under $1M into the business since 2024.
  2. Check when6 raised in 2025 or 2026; the other 10 have nothing on record since 2024.
  3. Check who backed itOnly eesee and ZAP carry an investor on NAUT's record, 2 of the 42 rounds.
  4. Check who you would deal withDennis S. Lee runs Dexlab, Electric KC runs Trailblaze.

Who runs these launchpad platforms?

Titles are as NAUT stores them, read on 11 November 2026. 5 of the 14 outside checks asked whether a stored title was right: 3 came back confirmed and 2 contradicted, and the 2 contradicted names are not in this list.

Person Title Platform Checked
CEO Confirmed
Founder Confirmed
CEO Confirmed
Co-Founder Not checked
CTO Not checked
Co-founder and CBDO Not checked
CMO Not checked
Head of IDO Business Development Not checked
CEO Not checked
CEO Not checked
Founder Not checked
Council Not checked

Anyone listed can ask NAUT to remove their page at https://naut.so/legal/data-deletion.

HackerNoon's January 2024 interview with eesee describes "Mr. Sadkov, the company's CEO", and a 2021 Daily Hodl piece on Dexlab's earlier raise states "Dennis Seungun Lee is the Founder at Dexlab, CEO". Marlon Williams's founder role at Starter Labs is carried on TheOrg, a page the fetch could not read, with a second report naming the same role.

What NAUT's record still needs

  • 's 3 November 2025 rounds total $1.25M on NAUT's record, and the outside check contradicted that total. Treat the $1.25M as unconfirmed and go to the company's own release before you quote it.
  • 's $2.95M seed and private round came back contradicted on the amount. The round and its date hold, and 3 investors are named on NAUT's record, but the dollar figure needs the company's own release.
  • 's own NAUT description says it has raised over $26.15M since 2023, while its rows in this window sum to $15.18M. The gap sits before 1 January 2024 or is not entered yet, so this report counts only the $15.18M in the window.
  • 4 of the 42 rounds carry no amount, so every total here is a disclosed total, not a raised total.

4 of the 42 rounds have an outside source used in this report, Pump.fun's $600M and $720M, ZAP's $15M and MOBY's $8.74M, and those 4 hold $1,343.74M, 98.1% of the $1.37B. The other 38 rounds stand on NAUT's record alone. Of the 8 confirmed checks, 7 are used here: the eighth, on Dexlab's $600,000 IDO, is left out because the quote could not be located on the cited page, so that round sits on NAUT's record too.

Related reading on NAUT: Crypto launchpad list: 55 platforms, 4 that back startups and Crypto funding statistics 2026: 327 rounds, $11.45B, 30 numbers.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes. GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects?sector=Launchpad&limit=100 returns the Launchpad-tagged companies this report filtered down to 16, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/pump-fun returns 1 company with its team, which is how the Pump.fun rows above were read. Every call is a GET with Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY and costs 5 credits, documented at https://naut.so/docs/api with plans at https://naut.so/pricing. The verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn of the people named here unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so you can start a 7-day trial and reveal them.

Launchpad startups funding FAQ

How much have crypto launchpads raised since 2024?

$1.37B across the 38 of 42 rounds that carry an amount, raised by 16 launchpad platforms between 1 January 2024 and NAUT's read on 11 November 2026. Pump.fun took $1,337.25M of that, 97.6%, leaving $33.09M for the other 15.

Which launchpad platform raised the most?

Pump.fun, with $1,337.25M across 5 of its 8 rounds, all dated 12 July 2025. The next 3 are ZAP at $15.18M, MOBY at $8.74M and eesee at $3.11M.

Who invested in launchpad platforms since 2024?

2 of the 42 rounds carry an investor on NAUT's record: eesee's 10 January 2024 seed and private round names Maven Capital, Momentum 6 and SevenX Ventures, and ZAP's 12 July 2024 round names Cypher Capital, Presto Labs and Larry Cermak. 33 of the 42 rounds are IDOs or IEOs, public token sales that carry no cap table.

Are these launchpad funding rounds token sales or equity?

20 of the 42 are IDOs and 13 are IEOs, so 33 are public token sales. The remaining 9 are 5 private placements, 3 rounds typed as a funding round or seed, and 1 KOL round, covering the window from 1 January 2024 to 11 November 2026.

Where can I find these launchpad teams and their contact channels?

On NAUT. 9 of the 16 platforms carry a named person, 25 team rows in total with 17 X handles on file, from Dennis S. Lee at Dexlab to Roni BEPARI at Starter, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/dexlab returns 1 company with its team. Their verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so you can start a 7-day trial and reveal them.

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