Fomo Raises $75 Million at $550 Million Valuation After Processing $4 Billion in Crypto Volume
Key Points
Fomo closed a $75 million Series B on June 22 at a $550 million valuation.
The platform processed $4 billion in volume and generated 110 million social interactions since launch.
68,000 users purchased crypto for the first time on Fomo using Apple Pay integration.
Fomo launched perpetual futures for non-US users on June 11 via a Hyperliquid partnership.
Fomo closed a $75 million Series B on June 22, 2026, valuing the one-year-old crypto social trading app at $550 million. Index Ventures led the round, joined by Union Square Ventures and existing backer Benchmark. The raise brings Fomo’s total disclosed funding to approximately $94 million, following a $17 million Series A led by Benchmark in November 2025. With only 17 employees, that is one of the highest funding-per-employee ratios in crypto venture this year.
The Platform Numbers Behind the Valuation
Fomo was founded in 2025 by former dYdX employees Paul Erlanger, Se Yong Park, and Prashan Dharmasena. In under 12 months, the platform reached metrics that justified a nine-figure funding round.
- 625,000 users have joined since launch, gaining approximately 3,500 new users per day currently.
- Total trading volume processed: $4 billion.
- Social interactions generated on the platform: 110 million.
- 68,000 users purchased crypto for the first time via Apple Pay, generating $25 million in transaction volume.
What Fomo Actually Does?
A Feed That Executes Trades Across Any Chain
Fomo lets users see what other traders are buying in real time and replicate those trades across multiple blockchains without managing bridges, gas fees, or separate wallets. Users sign in with an Apple ID or email, and the platform handles all back-end chain complexity. Delphi Digital described Fomo’s design as making trading feel “more like scrolling a feed than sitting at a terminal.”
What the Funding Buys Next
Fomo plans to use the new capital to expand its engineering team and pursue potential acquisitions of smaller companies. The platform launched perpetual futures powered by Hyperliquid for non-US users on June 11, 2026, its first step beyond spot trading.
Crypto startups raised $4.11 billion across 148 funding rounds in Q2 2026 alone, according to RootData, confirming Fomo’s raise lands in an active VC cycle. Peer consumer trading platforms including Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) and Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) are pursuing similar mainstream crypto onboarding strategies.
Final Thoughts
Index Ventures backed Fomo not simply as “a crypto business” but because it sees a structural market shift in consumer blockchain trading, the same reasoning that previously led it to invest in Bridge, which Stripe acquired for $1.1 billion in 2025.
At $550 million and just one year old, Fomo has compressed a typical startup growth arc into a single calendar year. Whether it can scale to match Coinbase and Robinhood at the consumer layer is the question the next 12 months will answer.
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