Overview
Utopia Labs provides a SaaS platform for payroll and expense management tailored to DAOs. It automates payroll and supports paying contributors in fiat or cryptocurrency, while tracking expenses and generating financial reports. The platform integrates with Gnosis Safe multisig wallets to keep governance and approvals in one place, enabling on-chain payments and transparent accounting. Its goal is to help DAOs run finances and operations more efficiently and transparently, with a roadmap to expand on-chain payments across the ecosystem.
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About Utopia Labs
Industries
Company Size
1-10
Company Stage
Early VC
Total Funding
$26.1M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2021
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Coinbase Wallet now supports USDC payments across Base, matching Utopia's original thesis.
- Base Account SDK offers one-tap USDC payments, creating a strong distribution channel.
- Coinbase's 2026 wallet reset refocuses on payments, trading, and subscriptions, expanding team impact.
What critics are saying
- Utopia Core shut down on 2023-11-06; the standalone product is gone.
- utopialabs.com returns 404 in 2026, showing no independent customer-facing business remains.
- Coinbase Wallet now owns payments strategy; Utopia's team risks being swallowed by internal priorities.
What makes Utopia Labs unique
- Paradigm backed Utopia in 2022, validating crypto-native payroll and DAO finance workflows.
- Utopia built native Safe integrations for payroll, invoicing, approvals, and bookkeeping.
- Coinbase acquired Utopia on 2024-11-13, importing onchain payment expertise into Base.
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Funding
Total Funding
$26.1M
Above
Industry Average
Funded Over
3 Rounds
Benefits
- Health and wellbeing - We offer top-of-the-line benefits, including health, mental health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Time off - We want people to take time off to rest and rejuvenate. We offer a 3 week paid vacation as well as 10 observed holidays by country.
- Parental leave - Our parental leave policy offers biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family.
- Lunch on us - You'll have a very generous meal budget for you to eat every day.
- $1000 Bonus for joining our “investment club” on Syndicate - New hires get a $1000 bonus for joining our investment club for tokens + NFT’s!
- Join a DAO on us! - New hires also get a 500 USDC bonus towards joining a Token or NFT DAO of their choice!
- Commuting - We offer monthly commuter credits.
Company News
Going forward, the Utopia Labs team will integrate with the Base team.
Coinbase has acquired Utopia Labs, a stablecoin payment processor, to enhance onchain payments within Coinbase Wallet and Base, its Layer 2 network. Despite Utopia Labs announcing it will wind down services by November 6, 2023, CEO Kaito Cunningham clarified this is a strategic shift, not a shutdown. The partnership aims to enable low-cost, fast, global payments, leveraging Utopia Labs' expertise in onchain payment infrastructure.
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Utopia Labs co-founder Pryce Adade Yebesi, 23, raised $23M to bridge the gap between crypto and traditional payment systems.
Utopia Labs, a payroll and expense management system built to integrate directly with multisig crypto wallets, announced on May 29 that it had closed a $23 million Series A funding round led by Paradigm.
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About Utopia Labs
Industries
Company Size
1-10
Company Stage
Early VC
Total Funding
$26.1M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2021
There are no jobs for Utopia Labs right now.
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