Coinbase Alum-Founded Turnkey Raises $30M Series B to Grow Engineering Team
Crypto wallet infrastructure company Turnkey has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Crypto.
Turnkey, which was co-founded by former Coinbase employees Bryce Ferguson and Jack Kearney, aims to help developers build user-friendly wallets using application programming interfaces (APIs).
This can help wallets become more streamlined and easy to use, according to Ferguson.
"If you want people outside of tech enthusiasts to use crypto, you need to make crypto wallets as easy and secure as popular payments apps like Venmo or CashApp," he said in an emailed comment.
The company counts prediction market platform Polymarket, non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Magic Eden and Stripe-owned stablecoin firm Bridge among its clients.
The funding also included contributions from Lightspeed Faction and Galaxy Ventures, who led Turnkey's $15 million Series A in April 2024.
Turnkey will use its new capital to grows its headcount, which currently sits at 35 employees. Turnkey is looking to expand its engineering, product, go-to-market and operations teams, according to a blog post on
The news was reported earlier by Fortune.
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