Venture Capital

Governance

Boardroom Raises $2.2M for Blockchain Governance Toolset

Blockchain governance suite Boardroom has announced a $2.2 million funding round led by Standard Crypto, with additional participation from Variant, CoinFund, Framework and Slow Ventures.

Business  ·  13 October 2020
Arrington XRP Capital

Indian Trade Finance Startup Raises $3.7M in Token Sale Led by Arrington XRP

Persistence has closed a $3.7 million token round led by Arrington XRP Capital and including Alameda Research, Terra and others.

Business  ·  13 October 2020
DeFi

Compound, Gauntlet Founders Raise $4M for New DeFi Scout Fund

Robert Leshner's Robot Ventures has secured $4 million in funding from Galaxy Digital and Paradigm to find early opportunities in DeFi.

Business  ·  30 September 2020
Venture Capital

Climate Startup Nori Raises $4M to Solve Carbon Market Double-Spending

Nori has been funded to build a blockchain-based market for carbon credits that will start by paying farmers to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

Business  ·  24 September 2020
Volatility

Ex-Pantera Partner’s New Crypto Fund Is ‘Not for the Faint of Heart’

Paul Brodsky is helming a new crypto investment firm called PostModern Partners that bets on volatile digital assets, not bitcoin.

Business  ·  24 September 2020
CoinFlash

Facebook’s Libra Co-Founder Morgan Beller Departs to Return to VC

Beller, 27, will become a general partner at NFX. She'd worked at a16z before joining Facebook.

News  ·  22 September 2020
Bitcoin

Chamath Palihapitiya’s Social Capital Holds Bitcoin From 2013 Amid Talk of Public Listing

Social Capital, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm started by an early Facebook vice president, has held bitcoin since 2013.

Business  ·  21 September 2020
CoinFlash

DeFi Studio Framework Labs Leaves Stealth Mode With $8M in Seed Funding

Framework Labs says it's already playing a key role in projects including Uniswap and Chainlink.

Business  ·  28 August 2020
DeFi

Polkadot-Based Acala Raises $7M as DeFi Grabs Land on Another Blockchain

Acala, a DeFi startup building on the Polkadot blockchain, has closed a $7 million simple agreement for future tokens (SAFT) led by Pantera Capital.

Tech  ·  27 August 2020
Venture Capital

VC-Backed Crypto Exchange Mexo Launches in Latin America

Mexo, a cryptocurrency exchange designed for the Latin American user, launched on Thursday.

News  ·  20 August 2020
Crypto Lending

BlockFi Raises $50M From Universities, NBA Star, Others as Crypto Lending Soars

BlockFi, a major player in the crypto-lending sector, has now raised nearly $100 million in the past 12 months.

Business  ·  20 August 2020
Venture Capital

Electric Capital’s New $110M VC Fund Is 90% Institutions

Crypto VC firm Electric Capital has closed its second fund at $110 million. Of the money raised, 90% of it is institutional capital.

Business  ·  3 August 2020
CoinFlash

Three Arrows, Framework Invest in DeFi Site Aave With $3M LEND Token Sale

Framework Ventures and Three Arrows Capital announced a $3 million investment in Aave, the firm behind the third-largest lending platform in DeFi.

Business  ·  15 July 2020
DeFi

This a16z Alum Is Launching a VC Fund Focused on Platforms You Can ‘Own’

An Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) alum is launching a new venture firm focused on building a crypto-powered "ownership economy."

Tech  ·  14 July 2020
Orchid

Binance Labs Leads $1M Seed Round in Crypto Tor Alternative HOPR

Binance Labs, the seed funding arm of the world’s largest crypto exchange, has made its first investment of 2020, backing privacy startup HOPR.

Business  ·  9 July 2020