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Morpho Labs funding, valuation and investors

Research and development company behind the Morpho decentralized lending protocol.

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Funding, valuation & investors

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Latest funding

Strategic

$50M · August 2024

Latest known valuation

Not publicly disclosed

Total disclosed equity funding

$68M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

growth · Paris, France

Investors in latest funding

Lead: Ribbit Capital

Sources: latest funding Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Morpho Labs is the Paris-based company that develops the Morpho decentralized lending protocol and Morpho Blue modular lending primitives. Funding and investors align with the Morpho Association and protocol-level raises led by a16z crypto and Ribbit Capital.

Why Morpho Labs is interesting

Operating company contributing to Morpho protocol shares the same a16z/Ribbit cap table — Paris team building onchain credit infrastructure.

Product & use cases

Morpho Labs builds and maintains the Morpho lending protocol — smart contracts, rate optimization algorithms, and Morpho Blue SDK for custom onchain credit markets.

  • Protocol development for Morpho lending network
  • Morpho Blue integration for DeFi builders
  • Onchain credit market research and deployment

Key facts

  • Protocol financing (Jul 2022): $18M co-led by a16z crypto
  • Strategic (Aug 2024): $50M led by Ribbit
  • Paris-based protocol development team

Funding history (newest first)

Strategic

2024-08 $50M

Source: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/08/08/morpho-raises-50m

Seed/Series A

2022-07 $18M

Source: https://morpho.org/blog/morpho-raises-18m

Investors in our directory

Funds linked from Morpho Labs's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.

Andreessen Horowitz Multicoin Capital Ribbit Capital

Competitive landscape

Edge: Same team and codebase as the leading DeFi rate optimization protocol — direct protocol development capability.

Morpho Labs is the engineering entity behind the Morpho protocol — not a separate product company. Competitive dynamics mirror Morpho protocol analysis.

  • Aave Labs adjacent

    Develops competing base lending protocol.

  • Compound Labs adjacent

    Develops Compound protocol.

  • Maple Finance direct

    Institutional onchain lending team.

Notable stories

  • Morpho Labs and the Morpho Association govern the protocol — Labs focuses on engineering while the Association handles decentralized governance.

Industries

Crypto & Web3 Fintech

FAQs about Morpho Labs

Practical answers founders, operators, and investors typically search for.

Development company behind the Morpho DeFi lending protocol.
Labs builds the software; the protocol is the onchain lending network.
Same investors as Morpho protocol: a16z (/fund/andreessen-horowitz), Ribbit (/fund/ribbit-capital), Multicoin (/fund/multicoin-capital).
Paris, France.
Morpho lending protocol and Morpho Blue modular primitives.
Labs is the operating company; Morpho refers to the protocol/network.
Both develop DeFi lending protocols; Morpho optimizes atop Aave pools.
Through protocol-level raises documented on Morpho blog and CoinDesk.
Not publicly disclosed.
a16z crypto-backed protocol development company.
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