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.
Persistence has closed a $3.7 million token round led by Arrington XRP Capital and including Alameda Research, Terra and others.
Robert Leshner's Robot Ventures has secured $4 million in funding from Galaxy Digital and Paradigm to find early opportunities in DeFi.
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.
Paul Brodsky is helming a new crypto investment firm called PostModern Partners that bets on volatile digital assets, not bitcoin.
Beller, 27, will become a general partner at NFX. She'd worked at a16z before joining Facebook.
Social Capital, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm started by an early Facebook vice president, has held bitcoin since 2013.
Framework Labs says it's already playing a key role in projects including Uniswap and Chainlink.
Acala, a DeFi startup building on the Polkadot blockchain, has closed a $7 million simple agreement for future tokens (SAFT) led by Pantera Capital.
Mexo, a cryptocurrency exchange designed for the Latin American user, launched on Thursday.
BlockFi, a major player in the crypto-lending sector, has now raised nearly $100 million in the past 12 months.
Crypto VC firm Electric Capital has closed its second fund at $110 million. Of the money raised, 90% of it is institutional capital.
Framework Ventures and Three Arrows Capital announced a $3 million investment in Aave, the firm behind the third-largest lending platform in DeFi.
An Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) alum is launching a new venture firm focused on building a crypto-powered "ownership economy."
Binance Labs, the seed funding arm of the world’s largest crypto exchange, has made its first investment of 2020, backing privacy startup HOPR.