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):
Tribe Accelerator Closes $70M Funding, Joins Coinbase Early Investor Greg Kidd
Singaporean blockchain company Tribe Accelerator raised more than $70 million, venture capital firm Korea Investment Partners (“KIP”), Mandiri Investment Management Singapore (“MIMS”), a subsidiary of Indonesian state-owned bank Mandiri, early Coinbase investor Greg Kidd, Stellar Partners and others participated in the investment. The new funding will be used to expand Tribe’s services and to support blockchain startups. (CoinDesk)
ConsenSys raises $65 million, JP Morgan Chase, Mastercard, UBS and others participate
ConsenSys completed $65 million in financing, JPMorgan Chase, MasterCard, UBS, Protocol Labs, Maker Foundation, Fenbushi Capital, The LAO, Alameda Research, CMT Digital, NGC Ventures, Greater Bay Area Common Home Development Fund, Quotidian Ventures and Liberty City Ventures participated. In this investment, in addition to fiat currencies, several investment funds also consider Ethereum-based stablecoins as investment methods, such as DAI and USDC. According to TechCrunch, this round of funding came around the time ConsenSys acquired Quorum last June. (CoinDesk)
NFT Investments raises £35m with listing on London's Aquis exchange
NFT Investments, an investment vehicle focusing on the NFT field, was recently listed on the Aquis Stock Exchange Growth Market in London. It has raised 35 million pounds (excluding fees), which is said to be the highest fundraising record for Aquis Stock Exchange (AQSE). It is reported that NFT Investments’ initial fundraising target was 10 million pounds, and this financing brought the company’s valuation to 50 million pounds, double the valuation in early April. The company's shares will start trading on AQSE on April 16. (The Block)
Malta-based crypto investment firm Cryptology Asset Group has raised 32 million euros ($38.4 million) through a share offering, which it will use to invest in crypto and blockchain startups. The company announced on April 15 that it had successfully issued 128,375 new shares and sold 31,625 treasury shares to institutional investors. Its shares are traded on several German exchanges, including Börse Düsseldorf, Gettex and Tradegate.
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinsquare recently announced that digital payment and financial technology company Mogo Inc. (NASDAQ:MOGO) has completed its previously announced strategic investment in Coinsquare.
Pursuant to a strategic investment agreement between Coinsquare, Mogo, and certain shareholders of Coinsquare, Mogo acquired a 19.99% stake in Coinsquare, paid a total of $27.4 million in cash, and issued 2,807,577 common shares of Mogo to Coinsquare and its shareholders. The investment also includes the right for Mogo to increase its ownership to 43% at a fixed price by purchasing shares from existing shareholders and exercising warrants under certain conditions. (Business Wire)
Social Token Platform Rally Raises Over $22M in CoinList Token Sale
Rally, a social token platform, raised more than 22 million US dollars through the RLY token sale on CoinList, with a total of more than 40,000 participants, setting a record for CoinList participants. (CoinDesk)
Open source software funding platform Gitcoin raises $11.3 million led by Paradigm
DeFi mutual fund Sheesha Finance completes $9.44 million financing
DeFi mutual fund Sheesha Finance completes $9.44 million financing
United Arab Emirates-based DeFi mutual fund Sheesha Finance has raised $9.44 million in a two-week token sale, underscoring increased investor demand for DeFi applications. (Cointelegraph)
Toronto-based ePIC Blockchain has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding, which will be used to manufacture ASIC mining machines in North America. Henry Quan, CEO of ePIC, said: "North American chip technology is outstanding, but ASIC mining machines are in short supply. New players cannot enter and acquire technology, which keeps many players out." (CoinDesk)
Liquidity market agreement BENQI received US$6 million in strategic financing, led by Ascensive Assets
According to official news, BENQI, a decentralized non-custodial liquidity market agreement based on Avalanche, has completed a strategic financing of US$6 million, led by Ascensive Assets, and participating investors include Arrington XRP Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Mechanism Capital, TRGC, Woodstock Fund, Spartan Group, Ava Labs, Morningstar Ventures, GBV Capital, Moon Inc, Genblock Capital, Rarestone Capital, Skynet Trading.
Poker platform Virtue Poker raises $5 million led by ConsenSys, Pantera Capital
Virtue Poker, a decentralized poker platform based on Ethereum, raised US$5 million before the launch of the main network. ConsenSys and Pantera Capital led the investment, and blockchain investment institution DFG Group and FunFair founder Jez San participated in the investment. The funds will be used to launch the mainnet, which is scheduled to launch in May 2021.
According to official news, Enso Finance, a social trading platform, announced the completion of a $5 million private placement financing, led by Polychain Capital and Dfinity Beacon Fund. Other investors include Multicoin Capital, P2P Capital, Spartan Group, Zola Global and The LAO, as well as from Status , Synthetix, Fantom, Nexus Mutual, Aave and Messari angel investors. The funds will be used to support platform development, community outreach and the mainnet launch in Q2 2021. According to reports, Enso Finance is a DeFi social trading platform. The Enso mainnet is scheduled to launch on Ethereum in the next few months, with multi-chain support to follow. The platform strives to simplify and create solutions that increase access to DeFi strategies and enable frictionless transactions.
According to official news, Meta Network has completed private equity financing of US$3.75 million, with participation from NGC Ventures, LD Capital, Primitive Ventures, Bitrise Capital, Cyberright Capital, and DFI.Money.
DeFi Yield Market Pendle Completes $3.5 Million Financing Led by Mechanism Capital
DeFi Yield Market Pendle Completes $3.5 Million Financing Led by Mechanism Capital
Pendle, the DeFi yield market, announced the completion of $3.5 million in financing, led by Mechanism Capital, Crypto.com Capital, Hashkey Capital, Spartan Group, CMS, imToken, DeFi Alliance, Lemniscap, LedgerPrime, Parataxis Capital, Strategic Round Capital, Signum Capital, Harvest Finance, Youbi Capital, Sora Ventures, D1 Ventures, Fisher8, Origin Capital, BitLink, Hongbo (DeBank co-founder & CEO), Taiyang Zhang (Ren Protocol co-founder & CEO) participated in the investment.
Parami Protocol completed a multi-million dollar seed round of financing, with participation from CMS, Axia8 and BlockArk
Don-key.finance Completes $2.2 Million Private Equity Financing, Spark Digital Capital and Others Participate
According to official news, Don-key.finance announced the completion of private equity financing of US$2.2 million, with participation from Black Edge Capital, AU21 Capital, Genesis Block Ventures, Spark Digital Capital, Solidity Ventures, Moonwhale Ventures and Morningstar Ventures. The financing will be used to build its social strategy - liquidity mining platform. It is reported that the key features of Don-key.finance include Copy farming, Strategy Builder, Farmer reputation, Investor reputation, tokenized rewards, and non-custodial pools.
Cross-chain aggregation protocol O3 Swap completes USD 2 million in financing, with participation from NGC Ventures, OKEx Blockdream Ventures, SevenX Ventures, etc.
O3 Swap, a cross-chain aggregation protocol, announced the completion of US$2 million in financing. Participating institutions include: NGC Ventures, OKEx Blockdream Ventures, SevenX Ventures, FBG Ventures, Neo Eco Fund, BTC12 Capital, Incuba Alpha Labs, Moonwhale Ventures, Puzzle Ventures, Capital Fund , AC Capital and many other companies at home and abroad.
Solana’s native decentralized finance protocol, Step Finance, has announced a $2 million private placement that will help build and develop its platform. Hedge funds Alameda Research, Raydium, One Block, 3 Commas Capital, Solidity Ventures and other Solana ecological supporters participated in the investment. (Cointelegraph)
UniFarm raises USD 2 million, NGC Capital and LD Capital participate in the investment
UniFarm, a decentralized farming pool for top DeFi projects, announced that it has raised $2 million. Investors include NGC Capital, LD Capital, AU21 Capital, Rarestone Capital, Morningstar Ventures, Alphabit, Moonwhale Ventures, Acheron Capital, Zokyo Ventures, etc.
It is reported that UniFarm launched the Token Farming Pool (Token Farming Pool) model, and the total lock-up volume (TVL) reached 8.3 million US dollars. UniFarm will launch the governance token UNIFARM, which will be used throughout the protocol and allow users the opportunity to earn additional rewards by staking tokens. (Newsbtc)
PancakeBunny Receives $1.6 Million in Strategic Financing, Led by Binance Labs
Volatility index protocol dVIX completes USD 1.5 million Pre-Seed financing, with participation from OKEx and others
Heco's decentralized exchange MakiSwap completes $1.4 million in financing, led by Inclusion Capital and participated by LD Capital
MakiSwap, a decentralized exchange based on Heco, announced the completion of 1.4 million seed round financing, led by Inclusion Capital, Kenetic Capital, LD Capital, NGC Ventures, Polygon Network, DAO Maker, Momentum 6, AU21 Capital, Xend Finance and QCP Capital Waiting to participate in the investment, Terra Virtua founder Jawad Ashraf also participated in this round of investment as a private investor.
Defiant Media Inc., the company behind the overseas encryption media The Defiant, announced the completion of a $1.4 million pre-seed round of financing. Investors include IDEO CoLab Ventures, ParaFi Capital, IOSG Ventures, Blockchange Ventures, Axia8 Ventures, Defiance Capital, Youbi Capital, MetaCartel Ventures , Nima Capital, GBV Capital, Kenetic Capital, Mechanism Capital, Cluster Capital, Serotonin, FreeCo, Morningstar Ventures, Anthony Pompliano, Mariano Conti, Kendall Saville, Clara Bullrich, Will Price, Peter Pan, Andrew Keys, David Nage, Garrett MacDonald and Wong Joon Ian, advisors include Cooper Turley and DeFi Dad.
Coin98 Labs Completes USD 1.25 Million Seed Round Financing, Hashed and Others Participate
NFT cross-chain aggregation trading platform Treasureland completes $1 million seed round financing, led by HashKey and Youbi
Cross-chain token distribution platform WeStarter completes $1 million financing
Cross-chain token distribution platform WeStarter completes $1 million financing
Sommelier Finance Receives $1M R&D Grant from The Graph Foundation
Sommelier Finance Receives $1M R&D Grant from The Graph Foundation
OEC decentralized lending agreement Lemond has received investment from several institutions, with a total financing scale of 2 million US dollars
According to official news, after completing two rounds of financing of $1.2 million, Lemond, an OEC decentralized lending agreement, has acquired Gate Labs, Zillion Biz (ZB), PrivCode Capital (MXC), Hoo Capital, Crypto Venture Capital, Angelone, Spring Fund and other institutional investment. At present, Lemond’s institutional round of financing has been closed, with a total financing scale of 2 million US dollars.
According to official news, Ethermon, an NFT game project based on Ethereum, announced the completion of a strategic round of financing. This private placement has been oversubscribed by more than 5 times. NGC Ventures, BlockSync Ventures, Candaq, Danish Chaudhry, Bitcoin.com Exchange CEO, DaoMaker, FomoCraft, GenBlock Capital, GBV, Inclusion, Ivalio Joranov, Jeco Capital, Kenetic, Kosmos Capital, Kyros, Lotus Capital, Momentum 6, MoonRock Capital, MorningStar Ventures, Nabais Capital, RareStone, Rob Hanneman, SKYVISION Capital, Tess Ventures, 18 Ventures.
NFT Creation Platform Corra.Finance Receives Investment from Multiple Institutions
NFT Creation Platform Corra.Finance Receives Investment from Multiple Institutions
NFT application platform REALY completed the seed round of financing, led by Multicoin Capital, Alameda Research, SNZ Capital participated in the investment
News, NFT application platform REALY completed the seed round of financing, led by Multicoin Capital, Alameda Research, SNZ Capital participated in the investment.
It is reported that REALY is a platform for trading fashion brand clothing and other real-world collectibles. They will focus on fashion brands and celebrities, based on a large fan base, and build an ecosystem by incentivizing creators.
NFT platform Art Blocks announced the completion of a round of financing led by The LAO and others
Ribbon Finance, a structured product on the chain, completed the seed round of financing, and Theta Vault product has been launched on the mainnet
DeFi lending platform MOAR completed private placement financing, Spark Digital Capital and others participated in the investment
Cross-chain DeFi perpetual contract platform YFX.COM completed strategic financing, NGC and SNZ participated in the investment
Polkadot's ecological unsecured lending system Bandot officially received a strategic investment from Softbank UK
Polkadot's ecological unsecured lending system Bandot announced that it has officially obtained a strategic investment from Softbank UK.
Polkadot ecological project TrustBase strategically invests in NFT platform Liquidifty
Polkadot ecological project TrustBase strategically invests in NFT platform Liquidifty
According to official news, TrustBase announced a strategic investment in the NFT platform Liquidifty, with the intention of jointly enriching the development of the NFT ecosystem. TrustBase is a Polkadot parallel chain based on the Substrate framework, which independently develops the Subscript smart contract language and supports a variety of tool plug-ins and smart contract applications. The Liquidifty platform aims to bring more liquidity to the NFT market and provide users with more use cases to support their NFTs with more usage scenarios. At present, the project has received investment from AU21 and PartOne Capital.
Financial Privacy Protocol Evanesco Completes Financing, BlockArk, LD Capital and Others Participate
Yellow Road, a BSC-based IDO platform, has received strategic investment from PrivCode Capital
Yellow Road, a BSC-based IDO platform, has received strategic investment from PrivCode Capital
According to official news, Yellow Road, a user-friendly IDO platform based on BSC, announced that it has received strategic investment from PrivCode Capital (MXC).
Earlier news, Yellow Road announced the completion of a $500,000 private sale of ROAD tokens. Participating institutions include Genesis Block, AU21 Capital, Momentum 6, Phoenix VC, Hybrid Ventures, Titans Ventures, Blocksync Ventures, and SMO Capital.
Cross-chain perpetual option protocol AntiMatter receives strategic investment from Huobi DeFi Labs
Cross-chain perpetual option protocol AntiMatter receives strategic investment from Huobi DeFi Labs
OKChain Ecological Project Dematrix Receives Strategic Investment from TokenHODL
OKChain Ecological Project Dematrix Receives Strategic Investment from TokenHODL
It is reported that the OKChain ecological project Dematrix and TokenHODL have formally reached a cooperative relationship. TokenHODL will provide capital support and strategic support for the development of Dematrix. Dematrix is a decentralized product matrix based on digital encryption. The business covers comprehensive DeFi platforms such as liquidity mining, income aggregation, synthetic assets, and NFT.
Mark Cuban has invested in NFT collectibles statistics website CryptoSlam
Dallas Mavericks owner and billionaire Mark Cuban has invested in NFT collectibles data statistics website CryptoSlam through his venture capital firm Radical Investments for an undisclosed amount. (Decrypt)
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