The following are the specific financing events (sorted according to the announced amount):
The following are the specific financing events (sorted according to the announced amount):
Blockchain.com completes USD 300 million financing, led by DST Global and others
Cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider Blockchain.com recently completed a $300 million Series C round of financing led by DST Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners and VY Capital, valuing the company at $5.2 billion. Blockchain.com CEO Peter Smith said the company has raised a total of $1.5 billion in debt and equity funding since its founding in 2011. It was the third-largest funding round in the industry's history, according to research firm CB Insights. In 2018, Bitmain Technologies raised $400 million; in 2020, Bakkt raised $300 million; earlier this year, BlockFi raised $350 million.
Chainalysis, a blockchain analysis company, announced the completion of a $100 million Series D round of financing at a valuation of more than $2 billion. Paradigm led the investment, TIME Ventures participated in the investment, and existing investors Addition and Ribbit continued to invest. (PRNewswire)
Starkware Announces $75M Financing Led by Paradigm
Starkware, a zero-knowledge proof research and development organization, announced on Wednesday that it has completed $75 million in financing, led by Paradigm, followed by Sequoia, Founders Fund, Pantera, Three Arrows, and Alameda Research. In 2018, StarkWare completed two rounds of financing of US$6 million and US$30 million. So far, Starkware has completed a total of $111 million in financing.
Japanese exchange DeCurret raised over $60 million, with investors including NTT, SBI Holdings, etc.
Japanese encryption exchange DeCurret raised 6.7 billion yen (about 61.61 million U.S. dollars) through a third-party capital increase, which will be used for the overall development of the digital currency platform. It is reported that a total of 10 companies have increased their capital through DeCurret’s third-party placement. In addition to IIJ, KDDI, Mitsui Sumitomo Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, and ALSOK, which have become its shareholders, the other 5 new companies that have injected capital are NTT, Postal Reserve Bank, SBI Holdings, Mitsubishi Corporation, SECOM. (Cointelegraph)
Encrypted data provider Lukka completed a $53 million Series D round of financing. Lukka’s financing valuation is about $200 million. Soros Fund Management, a fund founded by George Soros, S&P Global and CPA.com participated in the investment. The funding round will help the company expand the capabilities of its existing products, which span data and tax solutions. (The Block)
Encrypted bank Avanti completed a $37 million Series A round of financing before its launch. Institutional investors include Binance.US, Coinbase Ventures, ECMC Group, Morgan Creek Digital, University of Wyoming Foundation, HashKey, Holon Global Investments, Lemniscap, PJT Partners, etc. Individual investors include Trace Mayer, Marcel Kasumovich, Rob Kauffman (Aldel Capital), Tim Keefe, Lawrence Lepard, Eric Ly and others.
Financial app Ziglu completes £6.1 million seed round
Ziglu, a personal finance app, has raised £6.1 million in seed funding, including around £900,000 through the Angel Investment Network. It is reported that Ziglu provides safe and easy access to cryptocurrency channels by integrating British pound accounts and MasterCard debit cards. (Business Cloud)
Jiahe blockchain received 40 million yuan in round A investment from Guoxiong Capital Co., Ltd.
"Jiahe Blockchain" received a round A financing of 40 million RMB, and the investor this time is Guoxiong Capital Co., Ltd. Jiahe Blockchain is a blockchain professional training and communication psychology project platform. At present, the total number of registered users of the platform is 600,000, and the daily activity is 30,000+. (36 krypton)
NFT brand experience company RECUR received $5 million in seed round financing, led by Defi Alliance
According to official news, NFT brand experience company RECUR announced that it has received US$5 million in seed round financing, led by Defi Alliance, and other investors and institutions include Gary Vaynerchuk, Courtside VC, Joseph Lubin (organization not disclosed), Gemini (Tyler & Cameron Winklevoss) ), Scott Belsky (founder of Behance), JST Capital, Delphi Digital, Volt Capital, Nascent, CMT Digital, Hashed, etc.
Bitcoin rewards app Lolli raises $5 million, Seven Seven Six and others participate
Bitcoin reward application Lolli recently announced the completion of a $5 million Pre-A round of financing. Investors include Seven Seven Six, a venture capital firm co-founded by Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, Serena Ventures, a company owned by tennis star Serena Williams (Alexis Ohanian’s wife), Internet celebrity brokerage company Night Media. Internet celebrities Casey Neistat, Phil Defranco, Cody Ko, Noel Miller, Ian Borthwick and Phil Defranco participated in the vote. The funding will be used to develop the Lolli mobile app and expand internationally.
The Czech start-up company Tropic Square completed 4 million euros in financing, and the Swiss investment company Auzera invested. The financing will be used to complete the development and start testing the world's first fully transparent and auditable security chip TASSIC, which is expected to be launched by the end of 2022 and will be used in the encrypted hardware wallet Trezor.
The APIS, an API reading and writing protocol, completed a $3.5 million private round of financing
The APIS, an API reading and writing protocol, announced the completion of a $3.5 million private placement round of financing led by Insignius Capital, BlackDragon, Exnetwork Capital, Martix pool, CSP DAO, Master Ventures, Fairum Ventures, Water Drip, Moonwhale, ThorXCrypto, Titans Ventures, Sky Ventures, Blocksync, Deltahub Capital, SpykeFast, SMO Capital, Blocktonix, Dutch crypto investors, Aspectus Ventures, Avstar Capital, CoinVision, Avisa Ventures and other institutions, as well as Jagga, Moneykingg, Crypto Now (KOL) participated in the investment.
Sports card marketplace Dibbs raises $2.8M seed round led by Courtside Ventures
Dibbs, an app that allows users to trade fractional interests in sports cards in real time, today announced a $2.8 million seed round led by Courtside Ventures. Other investors include Founder Collective, JDS Sports and Sports Card investors, as well as former NBA player Channing Frye, WHOOP Founder Will Ahmed and Flatiron Health co-founder Nat Turner.
Genesis Shards, a Polkadot-based decentralized ecosystem, raised $2.7 million from 3Commas, Axia8, OKEx’s Block Dream Fund, LD Capital, Spark Digital Capital, Momentum 6, Solidity Ventures, BlackEdge, Morningstar, BitBloc, and Blocksync , Chain Capital, X21, Astronaut Capital, Moonrock Capital, Moonwhale Ventures, PNYX Ventures, AU21 Capital, Master Ventures, PetRock Capital. ParaFi Capital partner Santiago Roel Santos, Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal, Bitcoin.com CEO Danish Chaudhry and Alliance Block founder Rachid Ajaja participated in the round. Genesis Shards purportedly turns NFTs into a Pre-IDO token liquidity tool and suite of cross-chain DeFi products.
Ethereum's second-tier network Connext completes $2.2 million in financing, led by Polychain Capital
Ethereum’s second-tier network Connext has completed a $2.2 million seed round of financing, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from 1kx and Huobi Capital. Founder Arjun Bhuptani said that with the new funds coming in, Connext hopes to expand the network’s early liquidity and team to launch the entire network. (The Block)
Game DApp Alien Worlds raises $2 million, Animoca Brands and others participate
Gaming decentralized application (DApp) Alien Worlds announced Monday that it has raised $2 million in a private token sale. Investors include Animoca Brands, developer of The Sandbox and F1 DeltaTime, Longling Capital, 3Commas, Digital Assets Group. According to DappRadar data, Alien Worlds is currently the second-ranked game DApp, and the utility token Trilium (TLM) is the governance token of its decentralized DAO. (Cointelegraph)
Meta Network, a Web3 personal token platform, completes a new round of financing of US$2 million
Web3 personal token platform Meta Network announced that it has officially completed a new round of financing of US$2 million recently. Participating institutions and individuals include NGC Ventures, Cyberright Capital, OG Labs, YFII community developer Gao Jin, MCDEX founder Liu Jie, dForce founder Mindao, Binance Research analyst Calvin Chu, Orange Book editor-in-chief Li Yang, 499 DAOs, OG Labs, Primitive Crypto partner Dovey Wan, etc. In addition, former round investor Tony Tao continued to invest more.
Covalent, an API platform for blockchain data query and indexing, recently announced the completion of a US$2 million strategic financing led by Hashed Ventures, with participation from Binance Labs, Coinbase Ventures, Delphi Ventures, Hypersphere Ventures and Spark Digital Capital, in addition to institutions , Moonbeam, Avalanche, Near and Elrond and other public chains and blockchain infrastructures also participated in this round of financing. After the new round of financing, the product development progress will be accelerated, and the market-leading decentralized data index network Covalent API will be launched as soon as possible.
According to official news, no-code blockchain automation and data platform Esprezzo announced an oversubscribed investment of $2 million, with participation from Mark Cuban, Arrington Capital, Longley Capital, Rarestone Capital, CMS Holdings, LongHash, Youbi, TBD Angels, Zag Capital, etc. . According to reports, Esprezzo is developing a suite of products, including Dispatch, a no-code automation platform and various blockchain intelligence tools.
Saito, a Web3 technology infrastructure project, announced the completion of $2 million in financing, led by DFG, Candaq, Spark Digital and Block Dream Fund, In Blockchain, NGC, Signum, Delean, PAKA, Kernel Ventures, Tripara Ventures, Infinity Labs, Waterdrip, Angel One , OnePiece Capital, Hotbit, Lotus Capital, PhoenixVC, A195 (Four Seasons), AU21, Master Ventures, Momtemum 6, BlockSync and other dozens of investment institutions participated in the investment.
Rage.Fan raises USD 1.6 million, with participation from Spark Digital Capital and others
Rage.Fan, an on-chain fantasy sports and gaming platform, completed a $1.6 million private placement round, with investors including Genesis Block Ventures Capital, X21 Digital, Chronos Ventures, Magnus Capital, Moonrock Capital, AU21 Capital, Spark Digital Capital, Moonwhale Ventures, Momentum 6 and Vendetta Capital. This round of financing will help Rage.Fan launch the world's first sports oracle and Geo uNFT, increasing the participation of sports fans on the platform.
Exploit Network, a multi-chain privacy payment protocol, announced that it has recently completed an initial round of financing of US$1.5 million, with seven institutions and listed companies including BlockCapital and HashFund participating in the investment. The team stated that it will use the funds to hire more technical engineers to realize the usage scenarios of Web3.0 multi-chain interoperability. (Cointelegraph)
Zeitgeist, a Polkadot-based prediction market, completed a $1.5 million seed round of financing, D1 Ventures, Genblock Capital, AU21 Capital, Digital Renaissance, A195 Capital, Four Seasons Ventures, Brilliance Ventures, BlockSync Ventures, Acala co-founders and Web3 Foundation Individual participation. (U. Today)
WHALE completes $1.5 million in private equity financing led by Galaxy Interactive
WHALE announced the completion of a $1.5 million private round of financing led by Galaxy Interactive, with participation from Metapurse, HashKey, D1 Ventures and SevenX Ventures.
Decentralized wallet XDEFI Wallet announced the completion of a $1.2 million seed round investment, led by Mechanical Capital, Delphi Ventures, Morningstar Ventures, Alameda Research, ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees, Zapper co-founders Sebastien Audet and Suhail Gangji, and Aave Integration Director Marc Zeller participated in the vote.
Crypto Portfolio Management Platform CoinStats Raises $1.2 Million
Cryptocurrency portfolio management platform CoinStats has raised $1.2 million, with participation from private investors including Imperii Capital, Stefan Cohen and Jonathan Weiner. CoinStats provides cryptocurrency market data from 300 crypto exchanges and supports more than 8000 digital assets. (ZyCrypto)
NFT Auction Protocol TopBidder Completes $1.2 Million Seed Round Financing Led by NGC Ventures
TopBidder Protocol, an NFT auction protocol based on radical market theory, completed a seed round of financing of US$1.2 million, led by NGC Ventures, and a number of NFT community KOLs participated in this round of investment. The team said that the project has been developed and is currently in the public beta stage, and is expected to be officially released in early April.
APWine, a tokenization agreement for income rights, announced the completion of a $1 million seed round of financing. Investors include Delphi Ventures, The Spartan Group, DeFi Alliance, Rarestone Capital, Spincrypto Capital, Ternary Capital, Harvest Finance, Jarvis Network, Aave Integration Director Marc Zeller, etc. A number of investment institutions, project parties and individual investors. APWine said that a total of 3 million APWs (accounting for 6% of the total supply) were allocated to the seed round investors, with a single price of $0.3333 and a linear release in two years. In addition, APWine will soon conduct an audit and release a Post-Beta version, and will launch a liquidity mining plan in the future.
Hord Completes $1 Million Seed Round Led by LD Capital and DAO Maker
According to official news, Hord announced the completion of a US$1 million seed round of financing, led by LD Capital and DAO Maker, and participated by Bella, Gate.io, AU21 and others.
According to news, NFT platform Polkamon completed a strategic round of financing of 740,000 US dollars, led by Moonrock Capital and Morningstar Ventures. Other investors include Ascensive Assets, Divergence Ventures, Carnival Ventures and DFG.
EPNS Completes USD 660,000 Financing, Binance Labs, LD Capital, and IOSG Participate
News Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS) announced the completion of $660,000 seed round expansion financing, with a valuation of $12 million. Binance Labs, LD Capital, “Mysterio”, IOSG, Bixin, True Ventures, Bitscale, BR Capital, M6, LinkPad VC, Sandeep Nailwal (Co-founder of Polygon), Ajit Tripathi (Head of Institutional Business at Aave), Kaito (Webshake and Bspeak Capital founder), PareenL (Assistant Vice President of WazirX Marketing) participated in the investment.
According to official news, ColdStack, a decentralized cloud storage aggregator, completed its first round of financing of US$600,000, with participation from Genesis Block Ventures, Spark Digital Capital, Black Edge Capital, AU21, X21 Digital, Paribus Ventures, Solidity Ventures, and Morningstar Ventures. ColdStack said that after this round of financing, ColdStack will soon launch a token sale.
Polkatrain, a decentralized IDO platform, completed an angel round of financing of US$500,000. LINKVC, BITCAPITAL, DIGITAL ASSETS FUND, ENCRYPTCLUB, HUATU.PE INVESTMENT, ONCLOUD FUND, etc. participated in the investment. This round of financing will be used for the ecological construction of Polkatrain.
Diamondhands, founder of the new social network BitClout, disclosed a list of BitClout investors, including Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Social Capital, TQ Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Winklevoss Capital, Arrington Capital, Polychain, Pantera, DCG (CoinDesk parent company), Huobi, Variant, etc.
Fully aggregated protocol OpenOcean.Finance completed a new round of financing
OpenOcean.Finance, an all-aggregation agreement, officially announced that it has completed the financial round of financing. The specific amount has not been disclosed yet. Altonomy and LD Capital followed up with the strategic round of investment. AU21, FBG, TRON Foundation, DAO Maker, Asymmetries Technologies, LIAN Group and other investment institutions and Republic.co partners participated in the investment.
On-chain options protocol Charm Finance completes seed round led by Divergence Ventures
Charm Finance, an on-chain option protocol, announced a seed round of financing, with undisclosed financing amount information, led by Divergence Ventures, with participation from DeFiance Capital and Delphi Ventures. The team said that previously, the Charm platform achieved a transaction volume of US$3.8 million through a liquidity of US$580,000, and plans to launch Charm governance tokens in the future.
Nifty's, an NFT-focused social media platform co-founded by former NBA senior vice president of new media distribution Jeff Marsilio and others, announced the completion of a seed round of financing. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, ConsenSys CEO and founder Joseph Lubin, DeFi giant Whale 0xb1, Draper Drago, Polychain, Tally Capital, Liberty City Ventures and Future Positive participated in the investment. At present, Nifty's has not disclosed the financing scale.
Binance’s $100 million seed fund announced investment in BSC-based NFT trading platform Juggernaut
Binance’s $100 million “seed fund” announced a strategic investment in Juggernaut (JGN). Juggernaut is a fully BSC-compatible custom-made synthetic kit with governance and NFT ecosystems. Currently, Juggernaut has jointly launched NFT artworks and collected tokens with multiple artists, and launched multiple NFT blind box games. In September 2020, Binance announced the establishment of a US$100 million seed fund to support the development of DeFi and promote more high-quality projects to join the Binance Smart Chain ecosystem.
OEC Decentralized Lending Protocol Lemond Receives Investment from HOT Labs and Other Institutions
According to official news, OEC decentralized lending agreement Lemond has received investment from HOT Labs, BiBull Capital, CoinHub, BK capital and other well-known institutions after completing the first round of financing of 700,000 US dollars. At present, Lemond’s institutional round of financing has been closed, with a total financing scale of 1.2 million US dollars.
AscendEX strategically invests in multi-chain multi-currency wallet BitKeep
On March 23, the blockchain asset trading platform AscendEX (formerly branded BitMax) announced that it has implemented a strategic investment in the blockchain multi-chain multi-currency light wallet BitKeep.
NFT Project Kanon Receives Investment from Encryption Funds Mechanism, Nascent, etc.
Mechanism Capital, an encryption fund led by Andrew Kang, announced its investment in the NFT project Kanon. According to Kanon’s official website, other investors in the project include DIVERGENCE, Nascent, COMPUTE VENTURES, CLUSTER CAPITAL, MORNIINGSTAR VENTURES, SuperRare and COLLIDER. The private round price is $0.124.
On March 25, Wang Feng officially announced the establishment of Element (encrypted element), an NFT trading and social platform, and revealed that he had received Dragonfly Capital's angel round financing, and Mars Blockchain, the parent company of Mars Finance, participated in the investment incubation. It is reported that Element (encrypted element) is an open digital commodity market designed to help users create, discover, auction, purchase and interact.
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