Gauntlet
gauntlet.xyz
Actively hiring
DeFi
As featured in
View 1 job
Follow
Overview
News
Technologies
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Jobs
Financials
Funding and backers
Total raised
$169.8M
5 rounds on record
Latest round
$125M
Series C · Jul 2026 · 3 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
6
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
First Round, Hack VC
The money's age
Fresh money
3 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
48/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jul 9
Raised a round Series C $125M
Mar 14, 2022
Raised a round Series B $23.8M
May 27, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $13.6M · SEC Form D
Sep 4, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $4.4M · SEC Form D
Oct 25, 2018
Raised a round Venture round $2.9M · SEC Form D
2018
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 3%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | Jul 2026 | $125M | — | theblock.co |
| Series B | Mar 2022 | $23.8M | — | bloomberg.com |
| Venture round | May 2021 | $13.6M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Sep 2020 | $4.4M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Oct 2018 | $2.9M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Gauntlet Networks, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Tarun ChitraExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Rei ChiangExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
First Round 
Hack VC 
Standard Crypto Investors in similar startupsfunds that back the companies most like this one
Similar startupsby what they do, their industry and backers
Your personal trading agent across crypto, perps, prediction markets, and DeFi. Visit getdonut.ai to get started.
Founded in 2019, 1inch is a prominent decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem developer specializing in cryptocurrency trading optimization…
Folks Finance is a permissionless DeFi lending platform where users can lend and borrow crypto across chains, access loans, and manage…
Tokenize, manage, and distribute RWAs on-chain. Compliant issuance, vault structuring, and DeFi distribution, built for asset issuers and…
Scallop is a DeFi protocol for lending and borrowing on the Sui blockchain.
Aladdin DAO is a crypto-native decentralized incubator and builder of DeFi protocols. We aim to build the future infrastructure of the…
News
Valorant Patch Notes 13.06 Bring New Warden Weapon, Gauntlet Game Mode, and More
Here is the full Valorant patch notes 13.06 revealed in the dev update that includes new Warden rifle, game mode, and more.
Read more
Report
Local Model Performance on an M5 Max
How do the latest local LLMs perform on normal coding tasks on the latest Apple hardware?
Read more
Report
In the Press Uniswap launches 'Earn' with Morpho to let users earn yield on idle crypto assets Gauntlet is curating three of the Morpho vaults behind Uniswap Earn, Uniswap's new feature for putting idle assets to work. July 31, 2026
Gauntlet is curating three of the Morpho vaults behind Uniswap Earn, Uniswap's new feature for putting idle assets to work.
Read more
Report
Men's Casino Gauntlet Match Announced for AEW All In
AEW has officially added another big match to its biggest event of the year. On the July 29 episode of AEW Dynamite, the company confirmed that the Men's Casino Gauntlet Match will return at AEW All In 2026. The winner will earn a guaranteed AEW World Cha
Read more
Report
AI Loop Engineering in 2026: How to Build a Gauntlet Loop
Learn AI loop engineering with objective, metric, and boundary design. See how Matt Shumer
Read more
Report
The Real Reason DeFi Projects That Survived 2022 Crash Are Shutting Down Now
DeFi projects that survived crypto's darkest days in 2022 are shutting down en masse in 2026. But the most commonly advanced explanation for the phenomenon isn't supported by the data.
Read more
Report
How to Run a Gauntlet Loop
The prompting method behind Claude of Duty, explained: give an agent a real bar it can
Read more
Report
In the Press The Funding: Why Japan's SBI Holdings is investing big in crypto Gauntlet's Tarun Chitra told The Block that SBI brings distribution and market access beyond capital, in a look at the group's wider push into onchain finance. July 12, 2026
Gauntlet's Tarun Chitra told The Block that SBI brings distribution and market access beyond capital, in a look at the group's wider push into onchain finance.
Read more
Report
DeFi veteran Gauntlet raises $125 million from Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings
The Japanese conglomerate has made bets on other crypto protocols, including the lender Morpho and the blockchain Arc.
Read more
Report
In the Press Tarun Chitra's Gauntlet raises 125 million Series C from sole investor SBI Holdings Gauntlet's Tarun Chitra told The Block how vaults will outpace stablecoin growth in the DeFi market over the next few years. July 9, 2026
Gauntlet's Tarun Chitra told The Block how vaults will outpace stablecoin growth in the DeFi market over the next few years.
Read more
Report
Show more news
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Gauntlet over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
33
Postings analysed
9
Stack modernity
77/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
TypeScript
SQL
Go
Frameworks & libraries
Dagster
OpenTelemetry
Databases
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
Cloud & platforms
GCP
Kubernetes
AWS
Azure
AI & ML
Claude
Sign in to see how your skills match this stack
Sign In
Full Gauntlet tech stack
33 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$140k
Typical range
$140k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Staff
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | 1 | $140k | $140k |
Highest paying role
Trading Operations Lead
$140k
Normalized to USD per year
People
Tarun Chitra
Executive Officer, Director
Rei Chiang
Executive Officer
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data
Growth
Hiring Momentum
67/100
Growing
Open positions
6
1 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
60 days
faster than 22% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Data Science
29% ▼
Legal
29% ▲
Sales
29% ▼
Operations
14% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added SIEM to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Singapore
Sep 2026
Added BigQuery to stack
Sep 2026
Added IAM to stack
Aug 2026
Added GitHub to stack
Aug 2026
Added Morpho to stack
Aug 2026
Added Aave to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
New York
New York
United States
HQ
4 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 100% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Data Science, Legal, Marketing
Jobs
≈ $73k – $161k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • New York
Python
TypeScript
SQL
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Dagster
DevOps
GCP
Kubernetes
Web3
Solana
DeFi
Apply