Venture Capital


Markets

S&P, State Street Back $15M Investment in Crypto Data Startup Lukka

Lukka is looking to go mainstream with a strategic investment from three stalwarts of traditional finance.

Wall Street awaits.

Tech

Chainalysis Sees Raising $100M in Venture Capital at $1B Valuation: Report

Cryptocurrency investigation firm Chainalysis expects to raise $100 million in venture capital at a $1 billion valuation as early as next week, the company told Forbes.

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Finance

Y Combinator, Pantera Back $3M Investment in New Crypto Derivatives Exchange

Globe announced a $3 million funding round from the likes of Pantera Capital, Y Combinator, Tim Draper and others.

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Finance

DEX Aggregator Rebrands to Slingshot After Raising $3.1M From Coinbase Ventures, Others

Slingshot exists in an increasingly crowded field of DEX aggregators including 1inch, ParaSwap, Matcha and even MetaMask.

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Finance

Mintbase Raises $1M Seed Round to Bring NFTs to NEAR Protocol

The new funding allows Mintbase to hire developers and designers to prepare for a testnet launch on NEAR before year's end.

Mintbase co-founders Carolin Wend and Nate Geier

Finance

Digital Asset Firm Fireblocks Raises $30M to Gird for 'Influx in Customer Demand'

Fireblocks plans to maintain its standing as “the biggest player in crypto-native markets” but also wants to go after institutional players.

Left to right: Fireblocks co-founders Pavel Berengoltz, Michael Shaulov and Idan Ofrat.

Finance

Blockchain Startup Raises $12M Series A to Turn Brands Into Cellular Networks

Blockchain startup OXIO raised a $12 million Series A to make “Telecom-as-a-Service” as common as SaaS.

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Finance

Balaji Srinivasan, HashKey Back $2M Round in Twitter Privacy Tool Mask Network

Mask Network, the protocol that allows users to send encrypted messages and even cryptocurrencies over Twitter, announced a funding round Tuesday.

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Finance

DeFi Dashboard Zapper Snags New Funding From Delphi and Coinbase Ventures

Zapper announced Thursday an extension of its seed investment round with new backing from Delphi Digital and Coinbase.

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Finance

Razor Network Raises $3.7M to Prove There’s Room for More Oracles in DeFi

Razor Network raised $3.7 million in seed funding from NGC Ventures, Alameda Research and Mariano Conti, the former oracles chief at MakerDAO.

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