One-week financing express | 50 projects have been invested; the total disclosed financing is about 1.65 billion US dollars (4.11-4.17)
According to Odaily’s incomplete statistics, a total of 50 domestic and overseas blockchain financing incidents were announced in the week from April 11 to April 17, a certain increase from the previous week; There has been a substantial increase.
The following are the specific financing events (Note: 1. Sorting according to the announced amount; 2. Excluding fundraising and mergers and acquisitions; 3. * is a "traditional" company whose business involves blockchain):
The following are the specific financing events (Note: 1. Sorting according to the announced amount; 2. Excluding fundraising and mergers and acquisitions; 3. * is a "traditional" company whose business involves blockchain):
*Epic Games completes $2 billion financing led by Sony and KIRKBI
Game giant Epic Games completed a $2 billion financing at a valuation of $31.5 billion. This round of financing was led by Sony and KIRKBI (Lego's parent company), each investing $1 billion. The financing will be used by Epic to advance its Metaverse. (Reuters)
According to official news, Circle, the USDC issuer, announced the completion of a new round of financing of US$400 million, with participation from BlackRock, Fidelity, Marshall Wace, and Fin Capital. It is understood that in addition to its important role as a USDC cash reserve asset manager and strategic investor, BlackRock will also explore the application of USDC in the capital market with Circle.
Bloomberg: Ava Labs to raise $350 million at $5.25 billion valuation
Ava Labs, the lead developer of the cryptocurrency Avalanche, is raising a new funding round at a valuation expected to exceed $5 billion, making it one of the most valuable cryptocurrency startups in the world, according to people familiar with the matter. The company will raise $350 million at a valuation of $5.25 billion, one of the people said. (Bloomberg)
News Voyager Innovations, the owner of PayMaya and neobank Maya Bank, an Philippine payment and financial service application, announced the completion of US$210 million in financing at a valuation of US$1.4 billion, led by SIG Venture Capital, EDBI, First Pacific Company, PLDT, KKR, Tencent (Tencent) , International Finance Corporation, IFC Emerging Asia Fund, IFC Financial Institutions Growth Fund, etc. participated in the investment. TechCrunch)
Virtual image technology company Genies has completed $150 million in financing at a valuation of $1 billion, led by Silver Lake.
It is reported that Genies allows users to create virtual avatars that can be used in the metaverse, and its accessories can be purchased as NFT. The company has partnered with record labels such as Warner Music Group and Universal to create avatars and NFT digital merchandise for artists such as Justin Bieber, Migos and Cardi B. (The Block)
Encrypted payment company MoonPay announced $87 million in financing, singer Justin Bieber (Justin Bieber), rapper Snoop Dogg, tennis player Maria Sharapova (Maria Sharapova) and actor Bruce Willis (Bruce Willis) More than 60 well-known investors participated in the investment. It is reported that this financing is part of MoonPay’s A round of financing.
In November last year, MoonPay announced the completion of a US$555 million Series A equity financing, led by Coatue and Tiger Global, with a post-money valuation of US$3.4 billion. (Reuters)
DeFi trading service company BloXroute announced the completion of a US$70 million Series B round of financing, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 under SoftBank. BloXroute co-founder and CEO Uri Klarman said that the funds raised will be used to expand the size and influence of the team. It is understood that BloXroute will be the first service provider to provide a blockchain distribution network for DeFi traders on Ethereum, Polygon and Binance Smart Chain. Robert Kaplan, Investment Director of SoftBank Group, will join the BloXroute board of directors. (CoinDesk)
Gaming giant Ubisoft invests about $60 million in White Star Capital crypto fund
Gaming giant Ubisoft (Ubisoft) backed White Star Capital's second encryption-focused venture fund as a lead investor, putting about $60 million into the fund, which plans to raise $120 million. Other investors in the new fund include family offices and wealthy individuals. (The Block)
Cocos, a digital interactive content development platform, announced the completion of a US$50 million Series B round of financing, with investors including CCB Trust, GGV Capital, and Agora.
After this round of financing, Cocos will continue to improve the core technology of the engine, promote the further integration of the engine with games, automobiles, education, XR, home design, architectural engineering design and other scenarios, and will invest in engine function research and development, new scene expansion, and ecological construction. Continue to provide developers with more convenient creation tools.
Brazilian financial solutions platform Stark Bank completed a financing of US$45 million, led by Ribbit Capital, Lachy Groom and Bezos Expeditions led by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, founders of Airbnb and Kavak, DST executives, Coinbase and Visa executives, etc. Participate in voting. The funds will be used for the company to increase its product portfolio. (Reuters)
Skynet EGLD Capital, an investment fund, completed over US$40 million in financing, led by Spark Digital Capital, Woodstock, Morningstar Ventures, and Verko, and participated by Binance Institutional, KuCoin, Huobi Group, and Bitmart. The fund will be used to promote the development of Elrond Network ecology. (Crypto Potato)
Interoperability Solution Nomad Completes $22M Seed Round Led by Polychain
Interoperability solution Nomad completes $22 million seed round led by Polychain, 1kx, Ethereal, Hack VC, Circle Ventures, Amber, Archetype, Lattice, A&T Capital, Hypersphere, Dialectic, Breyer Capital, Figment, LedgerPrime, Robot Ventures, Continue Capital, Wave Financial, Open Web Collective, etc. participated in the investment, with a valuation of US$225 million.
Fasset Closes $22M Series A Funding Led by Liberty City Ventures and Fatima Gobi Ventures
Digital asset gateway Fasset has completed a $22 million Series A round led by Liberty City Ventures and Fatima Gobi Ventures, with participation from several family offices in the Middle East and South Asia. The new financing will be used for product development and market expansion. (Bloomberg)
Chain game Civitas announced the completion of US$20 million in financing, led by Delphi Digital and Three Arrows Capital, with participation from Framework Ventures, BITKRAFT, DeFiance Capital, Sfermion, CCP Games, Yield Guild Games, Merit Circle, and YGG SEA.
It is understood that this round of financing will be used to build Civitas into a community-driven collaborative city-building game. It is planned to launch a beta version in the first quarter of 2023 and officially launch it later in 2023. (Venturebeat)
Web3 Wallet Tracking App Context Completes $19.5 Million Financing, Led by Variant Fund and Others
Context, a Web3 wallet tracking application, announced the completion of a $19.5 million seed round of financing. This round of financing was co-led by Variant Fund and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Dragonfly Capital, Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo, Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann, Phantom chief technology officer and co-founder Francesco Agosti and others participated in the investment.
It is reported that Context is a Web3 wallet tracking application. The new function of this application can help users automatically find and subscribe to the Web3 wallet associated with the celebrity they follow on Twitter, and track the chain activity of their wallet address in real time. (The Block)
Encrypted wallet startup Dfns announced the completion of a $13.5 million seed round of financing, led by White Star Capital, with participation from Hashed, Susquehanna, Coinbase, ABN AMRO Venture Capital and others. Dfns plans to use this round of funds to deploy its keyless wallet in DeFi applications and expand its team. (CoinDesk)
News Ethereum Information Push Service (EPNS) announced the completion of Series A financing of US$10.1 million at an average valuation of US$131 million, led by Jump Crypto, Tiger Global, ParaFi, A.Capital, Sino Global Capital, Polygon Studios, Harmony Foundation, Wintermute , Zee Prime Capital, Woodstock Ventures, DCX Ventures, Alpha Wave Capital, Zebpay, TRGC, and iSeedVC participated, as well as Web3 industry leaders such as Andrew Keys of DARMA Capital, David Silverman of Aave Companies, Ajit Tripathi, Mateo a Levy, Kane Warwick, Jordan Momtazi and Justin Moses of Synthetix, Aniket Jindal of Biconomy, Anton Bukov of 1inch, Sahil Dewan of Harmony, Jerome de Tychey of Cometh and Ethereum France, Sam of Journal du Coin.
The EPNS team will use the funds to expand the team and grow outside the Ethereum ecosystem to realize the vision of a multi-chain, interoperable decentralized future. This funding will help EPNS advance mass adoption faster and enable multi-chain support (first deployed on the Polygon network).
Cryptocurrency market maker FLUID has completed $10 million in financing led by GSR, Ghaf Capital and 21Shares. Raising funds will help the team provide real-time pricing and provide liquidity to venues such as exchanges by reducing fees and latency.
It is reported that the FLUID team is led by bankers and financial technology experts from Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock and Jefferies. (Forkast)
Shrapnel, a shooting chain game based on Avalanche, completed a financing of US$7 million. Dragonfly, Three Arrows Capital, Keith Nunziata (Citadel Global Equities), Jason Zhao (Kleiner Perkins) and others participated in the investment. It is reported that Shrapnel CEO Mark Long has developed games for Disney, Ubisoft and others.
Neon, the game studio that built Shrapnel spun out of HBO Interactive, raised $10.5 million in November in a seed round led by Griffin Gaming Partners and Polychain Capital. (CoinDesk)
DeFi platform Oasis.app completes $6 million Series A financing, led by Libertus Capital
DeFi platform Oasis.app announced the completion of a $6 million Series A round of financing, led by Libertus Capital, with participation from Road Capital and 1inch co-founder Sergej Kunz. This round of financing will be used to further develop its products, expand its team and improve its brand image. (Cointelegraph
Cryptocurrency management company Coinpanion announced that its seed round of financing has increased from 1.8 million euros last fall to a total of 5.5 million euros (approximately 5.998 million U.S. dollars). Participating in the latest financing includes Wicklow Capital, Ledger, Blockchain.com, NYDIG, Crusoe Energy Systems and angel investors Andreas Kupke, Moritz Thiele, Michael Pötscher. In addition, existing investors Florian Gschwandtner, Hansi Hansmann and High-Tech Gründerfonds also participated in the investment.
In August last year, Coinpanion announced the completion of a seed round of 1.8 million euros, led by venture capital fund German High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). (RegTech Analyst)
NFT chain game Blast Royale announced the completion of a $5 million seed round of financing, led by Animoca Brands and Mechanism Capital, Dragonfly Capital, DeFiance Capital, Play Ventures Future Fund, Double Peak, Polygon, C² Ventures, Morningstar Ventures, DWeb3, Merit Circle, Ancient 8 and AvocadoDAO, as well as angel investors Santiago R Santos and Nick Chong participated.
It is reported that Blast Royale plans to launch the mainnet at the end of the third quarter of 2022. (U. Today)
DeFi reputation service project Reputation DAO completes $4.75 million in seed round financing
Reputation DAO, a verifiable, decentralized and programmable reputation service for DeFi, announced the completion of a $4.75 million seed round of financing, with participation from DACM, AirTree Ventures, Koji Capital, and Framework Ventures. Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov has also joined the Reputation DAO as an advisor.
This financing will be used to drive the development of reputation infrastructure and scoring products. By extending its analytics engine, Reputation DAO can map off-chain data such as AML/KYC, traditional credit scores, and social media data to enhance the assessment of account-specific risk indicators and deliver them into smart contracts. (PR Newswire)
Smart contract auditing platform Sooho.io completes $4.5 million financing, led by WeMade Tree
Sooho.io, a South Korean smart contract auditing platform, has completed $4.5 million in financing, led by We Made Tree, a blockchain game platform owned by We Made Entertainment, the operator of "Legend of Blood".
It is understood that Sooho.io provides audits for IT departments of companies including Samsung and LG through its proprietary software Odin. In addition, Sooho.io has also established Kleva, an aggregated leveraged income product, with a TVL of US$500 million. (CoinDesk)
On-Chain User Rewards App Glow Labs Completes $4.1 Million Seed Round Led by Harlem Capital
Glow Labs, a user reward application on the Chain, completed a $4.1 million seed round of financing led by Harlem Capital, with participation from Kirsten Green from Forerunner Ventures, Anu Duggal from Female Founders Fund, Drew Austin from Red Beard Ventures and Heather Harnett from Human Ventures . Funds raised will be used to grow the team, marketing and software development.
Glow Labs, a white-label software on the blockchain, is creating a way to reward loyal customers both on-chain and off-chain. (The Block)
According to official news, OHDAT Studio, the team behind the NFT project Paladin Pandas, has recently completed two consecutive rounds of financing with a total of 4 million US dollars. Hashkey Capital, Future Capital, Y2Z Capital and individual investors Mandy Wang and Vincent Niu participated in the investment. It is reported that OHDAT Studio is committed to providing content creators with IP incubation services based on WEB3, and helping content creators to issue IP digital assets such as NFT globally.
Web3 Regular Payments Company Loop Completes $4 Million Seed Funding Led by a16z
Loop, a Web3 start-up company, announced the completion of a US$4 million seed round of financing, led by a16z, A_capital, Alchemy Ventures, CoinList, Pantera Capital partner Paul Veradittakit, Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik and other angel investors participated in the investment.
It is reported that Loop is a Web3 start-up company focusing on regular salary payment and other regular payment service solutions for development employees (or DAO members). (CoinDesk)
Polygon-based NFT basketball game Swoops completed $3.5 million in financing, led by Courtside Ventures and Alpaca VC. Entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, Draft Kings CEO Jason Robins, Slow Ventures and Red Beard Ventures also participated.
The Swoops team plans to launch a free version of the game in July. (Decrypt)
According to official news, the algorithmic stablecoin TiTi protocol announced the completion of financing of US$3.5 million at a valuation of US$30 million. Spartan Group, SevenX Ventures, Incuba Alpha, DeFi Alliance, Agnostic Fund, Fourth Revolution Capital, Solidity Venture, 0xb1, Tascha, Nipun, Michael and others participated in the vote. TiUSD is a stablecoin issued by the TiTi protocol.
Encrypted portfolio management platform CoinStats announced the completion of $3.2 million in financing, with participation from Hack VC and 6th Man Ventures.
CoinStats will use the new funding to expand into a DeFi aggregator. According to reports, CoinStats is an encrypted portfolio management platform with 1.2 million active users and launched an encrypted wallet last year. (CryptoSlate)
Crurated, a wine NFT market, completes 3 million euros in financing
The red wine NFT market Crurated announced the completion of 3 million euros (about 3.25 million US dollars) in financing, wine experts Chris Van Aeken, Dip WSET and others participated in the investment.
Peer-to-peer lending protocol RociFi Labs announced the completion of a $2.7 million seed round of financing, with participation from Arrington Capital, Goldentree, Nexo, LD Capital, and Skynet Trading. It is understood that RociFi aims to provide zero-collateralized loans by using borrowers’ established DeFi positions to judge the creditworthiness of lenders. The funds raised in this round will be used to expand the RociFi team and bring products to the market. Christopher, CEO of RociFi Labs Brookins is expected to go live on the mainnet in the second quarter.
Web3 Technology Company Gripnr Raises $2.5 Million, Sopris Capital and Others Participate
Gripnr, a New Orleans-based Web3 technology company, announced that it has raised $2.5 million in financing. Sopris Capital, XBTO Humla Ventures, Abstraction Ventures, Better Angels, Carl Sparks, Voodoo Ventures and a series of New Orleans-based investors participated in the investment.
It is reported that Gripnr is a Web3 technology company founded by Brent McCrossen. Its goal is to bring board games to the blockchain. (TechSutram
The stablecoin protocol Volt Protocol has completed a $2 million seed round of financing, led by Framework Ventures and Nascent. Volt Protocol has indicated that its mainnet launch will likely be in late April or early May. (Decrypt)
Mokens League, an NFT e-sports platform, completed a $2 million seed round of financing
Mokens League, an NFT e-sports platform, recently announced the completion of a $2 million seed round of financing and released its in-game token MOKA based on the Polygon network. Mokens League plans to release the basic NFT in late April and start selling it in May.
In the future, the content involved in Mokens NFT will include Metaverse games, club management and even stadiums, decorations and other Metaverse assets, and bring the characters in the game into the Metaverse. Mokens League aims to launch a live multiplayer demo by the end of the third quarter of this year, with an open beta in the first quarter of 2023. (Globe Newswire
Vovo Finance, a two-layer structured product agreement on Ethereum, received US$2 million in seed round financing led by IOSG Ventures. Participating investors include Matrixport, Ledger Prime, Zee Prime Capital, Pattern Research, Primitive Ventures, imToken, Kyber Network, Daedalus and CyberX.
Vovo Finance aims to build DeFi structured products on Arbitrum, and it launched the first PPP in the DeFi field: Principal Protected Product. This product can earn income from Curve and conduct high-leverage transactions on GMX. In addition, Vovo Finance will soon launch products based on the GMX token GLP and a series of follow-up products that will increase revenue.
Blockchain startup Binarii Labs completes $1.6 million seed round
Irish blockchain startup Binarii Labs has raised $1.6 million in seed funding at a valuation of $6.5 million. The company, an affiliate of NovaUCD, an innovation hub at University College Dublin, is developing enterprise-focused products based on distributed ledger technology (DLT). (Busines Spost)
It is reported that BikeRush is a Web3 fitness Dapp product with built-in Ride to Earn. It is planned to be launched globally in early May, and 10,000 green bicycle NFTs will be airdropped in the global cycling enthusiast community at the end of April.
It is reported that BikeRush is a Web3 fitness Dapp product with built-in Ride to Earn. It is planned to be launched globally in early May, and 10,000 green bicycle NFTs will be airdropped in the global cycling enthusiast community at the end of April.
Firework Games, a decentralized independent development and distribution platform for blockchain games, announced that it has received a $1 million investment from Animoca Brands.
It is reported that the goal of Firework Games is to create a free P2E game platform based on NFT. The team is focusing on designing and building an immersive Metaverse, as well as its first game, Spark Era.
The game has an interstellar theme and is the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game independently developed by Firework Games. It integrates elements such as planetary mining, renting NFT cards, and the market, allowing players to earn benefits by participating in the game. (Cointelegraph)
The Only Art Platform TheOne.Art Receives Series A Funding of Tens of Millions of RMB
TheOne.Art, the only art platform, announced that it has received tens of millions of RMB in Series A financing. This round of financing involves a listed company. Before obtaining the permission of the listed company's announcement, the company cannot disclose the information of the financing subject for the time being. The company will make additional explanations later.
Through this round of financing, Unique Art has continued to increase the proportion of state-owned capital holdings. The company will continue to promote the improvement of enterprise qualifications, the expansion of technical teams and service teams, and make more in-depth extensions in the direction of the industrial chain, contributing to China's digital art and metaverse industries.
Recently, Yingmu Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. announced the completion of the Pre-A round of financing of tens of millions of yuan. This round of investment was led by Sequoia China Seed Fund and followed by the original shareholder Qiji Chuangtan (formerly YC China). The funds will continue to be used for team building and the research and development of the underlying core technology of digital humans, and to explore more possibilities for the application of digital humans driven by intelligent technology.
Since the official start of external business at the end of 2021, Yingmu Technology has cooperated with several metaverse concept companies to provide facial assets of different levels for dozens of film and television, game, and marketing companies. (36 krypton)
According to official news, Sender Wallet, a non-custodial wallet in the NEAR ecosystem, announced the completion of a seed round of financing, with Binance Labs and MetaWeb Ventures participating. This investment will help the Sender team expand R&D personnel, build a global community, and accelerate ecological development.
TopDJ, a music metaverse and decentralized music community built by DJ musicians and senior music fans, has recently completed its first round of financing led by SNZ Holding and LD Capital. It is reported that TopDJ has signed dozens of famous DJs from the world's top 100 DJ rankings, including creators such as Yves V, Kura, Pink Panda, Mariana Bo, etc. The total Twitter fans of the DJ group exceed 200 million.
According to official news, Binance Labs announced to invest in chain game DAO Merit Circle. The specific amount was not disclosed. DeFiance Capital, Mechanism Capital, Spartan Group, DCG, Maven11, OP Crypto, Dialectic, CitizenX, Yield Guild Games and Bitscale Capital.
It is reported that Merit Circle is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), which lowers the threshold and earns income for players who want to enter the Metaverse by providing game assets and training.
C2E game Forgotten Runiverse completes private placement of land tokens, led by Dialectic
Game developer and publisher Bisonic Inc. and Magic Machine announced Wednesday that they have completed an undisclosed round of land token financing. The token will be featured in the upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) Forgotten Runiverse.
In a press release, Bisonic stated that the land private placement round was led by Dialectic, a Swiss crypto fund founded by Ryan Zurrer. Seven Seven Six (founded by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian), Libertus Capital, Kenetic Capital, Placeholder, 1confirmation, Wenew Labs, No Goat Milk (Future Corp), and Twitter big V Fiskantes, Deeze, Soby, etc. participated in the investment.
（The Block）
Chain game Elumia completed a new round of financing led by Alameda Research and Animoca Brands
Solana ecological P2E chain game Elumia announced the completion of a new round of financing, led by Alameda Research and Animoca Brands, Cryptology AG, guild YGG SEA, GuildFi, Ancient 8, Good Games Guild, PathDAO, Unix Gaming and strategic partners Spartan Group, Crypto. com Capital, Spark Digital Capital, Kyros Ventures, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Forward Analytics, Master Ventures, Maven Capital, Metavest and Solar Eco Fund participated in the investment, and the specific amount has not been disclosed yet.
It is reported that Elumia will launch the first Alpha version in the second quarter of 2022.
According to official news, Reactor, the Terra ecological Booster protocol, has completed a seed round of financing. The specific amount was not disclosed. Hashed and Delphi Ventures jointly led the investment, GT Capital participated in the investment, and the product will be launched soon.
It is reported that Reactor aims to build a yield optimization platform to help users increase rewards on the DeFi protocol of the Terra blockchain.
Real Player DAO, a chain game association, completes seed round financing, led by Animoca Brands
Xunlianyou Guild and multi-tasking platform Real Player DAO (RPD) announced the completion of the seed round of financing, led by Animoca Brands, and other investors include Momentum6, Youbi, Double Peak, Dweb3, Blockpact, Enzac Research and Mr Block.
The financing will be mainly used for the development of the guild in East Asia, Turkey and Africa, as well as the deployment and promotion of the multi-tasking platform on BSC, Polygon, Harmony and Solana.
Blockchain infrastructure startup Blockdaemon completes new funding round led by Citi Ventures
Blockchain infrastructure startup Blockdaemon announced the addition of Citi Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Telstra Ventures and Invicta Growth as new investors. The specific financing amount is unknown.
According to previous news, in January this year, the company announced that it had conducted a C-round investment of US$207 million at a valuation of US$3.25 billion, and the total amount of funds raised reached nearly US$400 million. Existing investors include Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Tiger Global.
Impervious.ai Completes Seed Round Financing, CoinShares, NYDIG and Others Participate
Impervious.ai, a peer-to-peer network infrastructure based on the Lightning Network, completed its seed round of financing, with participation from CoinShares, NYDIG, XBTO Humla Ventures Fund, Jungle Boys Capital, Bitcoiner Ventures, Lightning Ventures, and Lightning Labs. The financing will be used to expand the team to develop more products, including a mobile browser and a new suite of applications based on the Impervious browser. (PR News Wire)
