Finnish investment firm Open Ocean has suggested it may consider European blockchain firms as part of its recently closed €100 million fund.
Blockchain payments startup Align Commerce has raised $12.5m in Series A funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
MasterCard has been named as one of 11 investors in Digital Currency Group's new funding round.
American Express is using its investment in bitcoin remittance app maker Abra to investigate the technology.
Boost VC CEO Adam Draper discusses his incubator's recent decision to begin using the term "blockchain" in place of "bitcoin".
Factom Inc, the for-profit business entity overseeing the blockchain recordkeeping project Factom, has raised $400,000 in new seed funding.
Bitcoin compliance solutions provider Scorechain has raised €500,000 ($570,000) in seed funding.
Singapore-based remittance startup Toast, previously known as Cryptosigma, has pivoted away from bitcoin and blockchain technology and reportedly raised $850,000 (S$1.2m) in seed funding. The startup – which seeks to facilitate remittances for Filipino workers living in Singapore – announced its re-branding in a blog post in July and said it would for now operate […]
Tokyo-based startup Orb, the company behind new cryptocurrency management platform SmartCoin, has raised $2.3m in seed funding.
Ripple has received an estimated $4m in funding from Santander InnoVentures, bringing its Series A total to $32m.
South Korean bitcoin services company Coinplug has closed a $5m Series B funding round.
Boost VC has released new figures related to the success of its startup investments in the bitcoin and blockchain industry.
Safe Cash Payment Technologies, a blockchain-based digital cash platform, has raised $1.12m in seed funding.
The rising interest in use cases for bitcoin's underlying technology, the blockchain, is influencing the investment strategies of venture capitalists.
CoinDesk takes a look at the biggest funding rounds in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space that have taken place so far in 2015.