Funding Rounds


Finance

Pantera Capital Leads $2.6M Seed Round for DEX Protocol Injective

The protocol, incubated by Binance Labs, sets out to solve some of the issues facing users of decentralized exchanges.

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Finance

Morgan Creek Leads $2.8M Seed Round for Crypto Insurance Upstart Evertas

Formerly called BlockRe, the crypto insurance provider raised the seed round from Morgan Creek,Plug n Play, Kailash Ventures and other investors.

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Markets

VMware Joins Samsung, Salesforce as Investor in Digital Asset’s Series C Funding Round

Enterprise blockchain maker Digital Asset says VMware has joined its Series C funding round, though it didn't say how much has been raised.

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Finance

Crypto Trading Platform CrossTower Raises $6M in Seed Round

CrossTower has raised $6 million in seed funding, with entrepreneur Gerard Lopez leading the round.

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Markets

Accel, Coinbase Join $17M Funding Rounds for Institutional Crypto Trading Firm FalconX

The crypto trading firm pitched investors on the basis that its best trade execution platform offers institutions a solution to the wash trading that is rife in the space.

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Finance

Ashton Kutcher and Michelle Phan Invest in Lolli’s $3M Seed Round

Lolli, the bitcoin rewards shopping app, attracted celebrity investors in a $3 million round led by the early-stage arm of Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund.

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Markets

Digital Asset Firm Taurus Group Raises €10M From Investors Including Banks, Tezos

Taurus Group is looking to expand its operations after securing Series A funding led by Arab Bank (Switzerland).

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Finance

Crypto Data Provider Skew Raises $5M, Launches Trade Execution Platform

The $5 million round, led by Octopus Ventures, adds to a $2 million seed round raised in September of last year.

Skew's founding team, Emmanuel Goh and Tim Noat. (Credit: Skew)

Finance

Morgan Creek Invests in Startup Bringing Bitcoin to DeFi

Anthony Pompliano's investment firm has joined a seed round for Atomic Loans, a startup looking to create bitcoin-backed lending instruments.

Morgan Creek co-founder and partner Anthony Pompliano. (Credit: CoinDesk)

Finance

Coinbase, Fidelity and More Back Coin Metrics in $6M Series A Funding Round

The cryptocurrency data provider will use the new funding to expand its team and improve product offerings.

Castle Island Ventures' Nic Carter (CoinDesk archives)