Tagged: venture capital

Crypto VC Investments Shift Towards Infrastructure Development, Move Away from Speculative NFTs, Metaverse Projects: Report

For VCs, the negative impact of Bitcoin’s (BTC) disappointing 2022 run has had long-term adverse effects on the larger crypto and blockchain ecosystem. Although the flagship cryptocurrency has recovered to some extent, surging around 55% during 2023, investments in crypto-related startups have declined for the… Read More

HNWIs Are Convinced that Alternative Investments like Venture Capital, Digital Currencies, Structured Products Will Provide Long-Term Returns: Report

  High-net-worth investors “remain absolutely convinced” by alternative investments, including venture capital, cryptocurrencies, structured products, and hedge funds – “despite a wider slowdown of inflows into the sector.” The assessment from Nigel Green, the chief executive and founder of deVere Group, comes as media reports… Read More

Latin America based Startups Are Laying Off Workers, LatAm Now Expecting More IPOs, Report Claims

Startups in Latin America are reportedly laying off staff members and are now expecting significantly more initial public offerings (IPOs) by 2024. According to reports, around two-thirds or roughly 67% of Latin American firms have now laid off staff members during the past 18 months,… Read More

Decentralized Finance: Maple to Establish DeFi, Traditional Finance Services with Lending Marketplace

The funding initiates a multi-year, comprehensive growth roadmap designed to see Maple establish itself beyond DeFi and into the world of traditional finance “as a lending marketplace and technology provider.” As noted in a blog post, Maple has closed “a $5 million strategic funding round.”… Read More

UK Venture Capital Funding Value Declines Over 54% During Jan-July 2023, Report Reveals

A total of 808 venture capital (VC) funding deals “worth $8 billion were announced in the UK during January to July 2023,” according to a recent update shared by GlobalData. Both VC funding deals volume and value “witnessed considerable year-on-year (YoY) decline of 28.4% and… Read More

Craftgate Technology, a Payment Orchestration Platform, Receives Investment to Expand Operations

Craftgate Technology, a “One-Stop Shop” payment orchestration platform, announces that the company received USD 1 million investment from D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading (d/b/a ‘Hepsiburada’) (NASDAQ: HEPS), a Turkish e-commerce platform and D4 Ventures, a UK-based venture capital company. Based in İstanbul, Türkiye, Craftgate helps… Read More

Web3 Adoption: Binance Labs Invests in Delphinus Lab, the Open-Source zkWASM VM to Support Web 3 Apps

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, has invested in Delphinus Lab, an infrastructure provider that has implemented the first known open-source zkWASM virtual machine that supports trustless computation and application SDKs. zkWASM technology enables developers “to craft zero-knowledge (ZK) applications using… Read More

Percentage of Down Rounds at Four-Year High as Venture Funding Dries Up: Report

The percentage of down rounds has increased to a four-year high, according to a recent report by Pitchbook. According to the report, the environment is very “investor friendly” as valuations have gone into reverse. Pitchbook says that “non-traditional investors” drive valuations, and this crew has… Read More

QED Says Fintech Venture Environment Returning to Reality

QED Investors, one of the top Fintech venture capital firms in the world, says that “dry powder” is slowly returning to the market following the “champagne hangover” of easy money and huge valuations ruled the day. Venture markets, in general, have dropped dramatically in the… Read More

Web3 Adoption: Spearbit Raises Funding to Launch Cantina, a Marketplace for Web 3 Security Audits

Spearbit, a smart contract audit and security solutions firm with clients such as Polygon, OpenSea, Optimism and more, announced that it “has raised a $7 million funding round led by Framework Ventures, a venture capital firm known for its early entry into decentralized finance (DeFi)… Read More

Enterprise Fintech VC Deal Activity Continued to Decelerate in Q2 2023, Report Reveals

Enterprise fintech VC deal activity continued “to decelerate in Q2,” according to a comprehensive update from Pitchbook. VC deal value this quarter has reportedly “decreased 11.9% YoY to $10.6 billion.” Excluding the Stripe deal, VC deal value “was $3.7 billion, representing declines of 69.2% YoY… Read More

DeFi Adoption: Binance Labs Commits $10M to Support Helio Protocol

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, has committed 10 Million USD to Helio Protocol, a project “combining over-collateralized lending of its native decentralized stablecoin, HAY, with staking-as-a-service (StaaS) and LSDfi infrastructure, with approximately combined 300 million USD in total value locked… Read More

Fintech Venture Capital Firm Ribbit Capital Establishes $800M Fund

Ribbit Capital, a Palo Alto, California-headquartered venture capital firm, has reportedly secured around $800 million as part of its latest Fund. As noted in a regulatory form filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), there are a total of 247 investors that have… Read More

Venture Funding on Carta Inched Upward in Q2, as Startups Raised $15.4B+ in Q2 2023

Venture funding on Carta inched upward in Q2. Startups combined “to raise more than $15.4 billion in funding during the second quarter of 2023, up 26% from Q1.” In several other areas of the venture landscape, “such as early-stage valuations and late-stage deal counts, the… Read More

AI, Climatetech Sectors in Australia Defy Slowdown in Venture Capital Activity: Report

Investment in Australian startups over the first six months of 2023 “fell to US$1.11 billion, compared to US$3.64 billion over the corresponding period in 2022,” according to newly released data from KPMG. The latest numbers from the KPMG Private Enterprise Venture Pulse report shows that… Read More

Baltics Get Largest Percentage of Private Equity, Venture Capital in Europe: Report

The Baltic states have gained the largest percentage of private equity and venture capital out of the European Union and the UK, according to a recent report. S&P Global Market Intelligence says Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia had the highest percentages in their respective private business… Read More

Billion Plus Private Equity, Venture Capital Deals at Slowest Level Since 2019

Global private equity and venture capital deals with a valuation of one billion dollars are more are experiencing their slowest-ever year since 2019, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. For the year until July 13th, there have been 33 deals at $99.47 billion. During Q2,… Read More

Decentralized Finance: Binance Labs Invests in Radiant to Support DeFi Lending

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, has invested in Radiant Capital, a lending and borrowing protocol built atop Binance Labs portfolio company, LayerZero Labs, and focused on “bridging fragmented liquidity across decentralized finance ecosystems.” This strategic funding round “emphasizes Binance Labs’… Read More

Propellant, the Fintech which Analyzes Trading Activity to Drive Business Decisions, Secures New Investment

Propellant.digital, the analytics Fintech which captures and analyses global trading activity to drive business decisions, has secured a strategic investment led by Volta Ventures, the seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on software startups. Since Propellant was launched in mid 2021 its analytics platform… Read More

Binance Labs Commits $15M to Xterio Ecosystem to Enhance Its Game Development Capabilities in AI, Web3

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, which is being sued by US regulators for a wide range of issues, has committed $15 million into Xterio, a Web3 game platform and publisher bridging free-to-play and on-chain gaming with in-house and third-party games… Read More

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