TabTrader raises $5.8M for a mobile app that aggregates crypto exchange data

TabTrader raises $5.8M for a mobile app that aggregates crypto exchange data

As lots of the prime cryptocurrencies appear to quickly stabilize close to all-time highs, customers seeking to speculate on tokens which might be a bit extra unstable are looking out throughout exchanges to seek out offers.

 

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Amsterdam-based startup TabTrader has been capitalizing on this search with a platform that aggregates costs and token availability throughout dozens of exchanges. Whereas different platforms enable customers to have a look at token costs throughout exchanges, most are desktop-optimized whereas TabTrader has constructed up a considerable presence for its cellular app on iOS and Android.

As completely different exchanges take completely different approaches towards onboarding new tokens, crypto merchants are more and more signing up for accounts on a number of exchanges and monitoring costs throughout a number of apps with a number of notification sorts set for every. Many customers depend on TabTrader for its cross-exchange value alert function, notifying customers when a specific token has gone above or under a sure worth. Whereas loads of exchanges supply this performance inside their native apps, the reliability and customizability of those push notifications has typically been inconsistent.

CEO Kirill Suslov tells TechCrunch that the TabTrader app has greater than 400,000 energetic customers, with significantly robust presences in Europe and Asia.

The startup has adopted a Kayak-like mannequin, aggregating costs for tokens and selecting up rebate charges from exchanges when customers make a purchase order via the app. Whereas customers plug their pockets information into the app to simply make purchases via related exchanges, Suslov says that TabTrader by no means has entry to consumer funds.

Alongside these rebates, TabTrader additionally makes cash via a $12 month-to-month subscription for a paid model, in addition to promoting. Suslov says his 20-person staff has scaled to succeed in their present viewers with none paid advertising and marketing.

Whereas tens of hundreds of thousands of customers have created accounts on centralized exchanges like Coinbase and Binance, Suslov says that TabTrader’s greatest alternative could also be embracing so-called decentralized exchanges like Uniswap, which permit customers to quickly change tokens with different customers.

Suslov says that whereas the exchanges have constructed out nice know-how within the back-end, the front-end interfaces aren’t as simple for customers to navigate, leaving room for an aggregator like TabTrader to streamline the consumer expertise whereas permitting customers to discover decentralized exchanges for the primary time. The startup says they’re beginning with a variety of Solana-based exchanges together with Serum, Raydium and Orca.

“[Decentralized exchanges] are the most popular matter of 2021,” Suslov says. “We raised to get onto this rocket ship.”

Suslov tells TechCrunch that TabTrader has banked $5.8 million in Collection A funding from 100X Ventures, Hashkey Capital, Spartan Capital, SGH Capital, SOSV and Artesian Enterprise Companions.