Venture Capital

Coinbase

This VC Gave Coinbase Its First Check

Initialized Capital’s Garry Tan first came across Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong when the latter was still at his day job debugging Airbnb.

Business  ·  13 April 2021
Coinbase

Rap Icon Nas Could Net $100M When Coinbase Lists on Nasdaq

Nasir Jones’ QueensBridge Venture Partners invested in 2013. A source familiar with the matter confirmed QueensBridge is still on the Coinbase cap table.

Business  ·  12 April 2021
Coinbase

Communitas Capital’s ‘Infrastructure-First’ Investing Approach Is Paying Off With Coinbase and Others

Ex-Reuters CEO Tom Glocer was an angel investor in Coinbase’s 2015 Series C round. Here are the other crypto VC bets his Communitas Capital is making.

Business  ·  9 April 2021
Venture Capital

Crypto Trading App Atani Raises $6.25M

The funding round was led by JME Ventures, an early investor in unicorn payments provider Flywire.

Business  ·  6 April 2021
Funding Rounds

Zora Gets In on NFT Funding Craze With $8M Raise, SEC Documents Show

It’s the latest NFT marketplace investors are betting on as the mainstream gateway to crypto.

Business  ·  31 March 2021
Trading

Ember Fund Raises $5.3M to Build Out Trading App

Ember’s AI and machine-learning algos look to protect retail investors from getting rekt.

Business  ·  31 March 2021
Venture Capital

Michael Jordan Joins $305M Investment in Firm Behind NBA Top Shot

Dapper Labs' buzzy NFT platform has generated over $500 million in sales since launch.

Business  ·  30 March 2021
Venture Capital

Cuban, Palihapitiya Back NFT Marketplace SuperRare’s $9M Series A

The NFT marketplace plans to build out its social features and experiment with presenting works in virtual reality.

Business  ·  30 March 2021
Polkadot

PureStake Raises $6M From Binance Labs, Coinbase Ventures

PureStake's Moonbeam parachain launched its testnet last September as part of the Polkadot ecosystem.

News  ·  30 March 2021
Chainalysis

Chainalysis Raises $100M, Underscoring Surging Demand for Blockchain Surveillance

The compliance-minded crypto data firm, is now valued at $2 billion after a Series D raise from Paradigm, Ribbit and others.

Business  ·  26 March 2021
Venture Capital

Caitlin Long’s Avanti Raises $37M Ahead of Crypto Bank Launch

The digital bank will put the extra cash toward meeting Wyoming regulators’ pre-launch capital requirements.

Business  ·  25 March 2021
Venture Capital

Serena Williams Backs $5M Round in Bitcoin Rewards Startup Lolli

Williams leads a pack of notable investors in the e-commerce firm, including her husband, Alexis Ohanian, and a handful of prominent YouTubers.

Business  ·  24 March 2021
Funding Rounds

Blockchain.com Raises $300M at $5.2B Valuation: Report

The news comes a month after the raising of $120 million in a round led by Google Ventures. In that round the company was valued at $3 billion.

News  ·  24 March 2021
Governance

Tally Raises $1.5M to Boost On-Chain Governance in Compound’s DeFi Ecosystem

Notation Capital, Castle Island Ventures, 1kx and others invested in the governance dashboard.

Tech  ·  18 March 2021
Venture Capital

Republic Completes $36M Funding Round; Teases Token Sale Platform

A series of planned token sales starts with an offering from Cere Network later this month.

Business  ·  17 March 2021