Tagged: investment round

August 20, 2023 @ 10:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ZetaChain, the layer-one blockchain that brings universal interoperability to crypto, has closed a $27 million equity funding round from a range of top participants. The participants in the equity round “include Blockchain.com, Human Capital, VY Capital, Sky9 Capital, Jane Street Capital, VistaLabs, CMT Digital, Foundation… Read More

August 20, 2023 @ 9:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Led by Electric Capital, Ellipsis Labs’ $3.3M seed round also saw contributions from Robot Ventures and Anagram. Notable angels in this investment round “include Anatoly Yakovenko, CEO of Solana Labs, Marc Boiron, CEO of Polygon Labs, and Keone Hon, CEO of Monad Labs.” Ellipsis Labs… Read More

August 16, 2023 @ 4:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Persefoni, a Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP) for enterprises and financial institutions, announces a $50 million Series C-1 funding round and the launch of PersefoniGPT, the company’s AI co-pilot product “for carbon accounting and management.” This latest investment round was “led by TPG Rise… Read More

August 16, 2023 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BitGo recently revealed that it has raised additional funding at a $1.75 billion valuation. The crypto firm has acquired $100 million from new investors, while remaining focused on adhering to applicable guidelines and regulations. In a tumultuous year for US-based crypto firms, a select few… Read More

August 14, 2023 @ 10:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CUBE3.AI, the real-time web3 transaction security platform that blocks malicious threats, announced that its platform is generally available, and that it “has raised $8.2 million in seed funding led by Blockchange Ventures, with participation from Dispersion Capital, Symbolic Capital, Hypersphere Ventures, ICLUB and TA Ventures…. Read More

August 13, 2023 @ 6:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

deepset.ai – the enterprise platform for building applications with LLMs – has raised $30 million in funding led by Balderton Capital. The investment round also included participation from existing investors GV (Google Ventures), and Harpoon Ventures. deepset claims that it “solves one of the biggest… Read More

August 13, 2023 @ 5:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SphereX, a web3 security company, has raised $8.2 million in seed funding and launched SphereX Protect, a decentralized security solution for smart contracts. This solution prevents vulnerabilities “in the code from being exploited and maintains contract operation even under threat.” SphereX, a web3 security platform,… Read More

August 13, 2023 @ 1:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

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

August 7, 2023 @ 6:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

D8X, an institutional-grade decentralized exchange (DEX) for derivatives on Polygon zkEVM, announced a $1.5 million pre-seed round with support from Polygon Ventures and various other investors. The capital will help D8X launch “a decentralized derivatives trading platform in the second half of 2023 that provides… Read More

August 6, 2023 @ 2:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finicast, a modern SaaS enterprise collaborative planning platform that enables teams to work together as they model, plan, forecast, and track performance, announced that it has raised $12.8M in seed funding, led by Celesta Capital. This will be instrumental in “furthering the company’s collaborative planning… Read More

August 4, 2023 @ 9:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pockit – the financial super app for low-income and underserved communities – has raised $10 million in a growth round “led by Puma Private Equity, with participation from The North East Development Capital Fund, managed by Maven Capital Partners and supported by the European Regional… Read More

August 4, 2023 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Orbital, the London, Tallinn and Gibraltar-based traditional finance and crypto payments platform for global enterprises, has raised £5M ($6.4M) in “an oversubscribed growth round led by Golden Record Ventures, at an attractive valuation in which the founders are maintaining a large majority.” Participants in the… Read More

August 3, 2023 @ 11:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Emtech, a provider of central banking infrastructure, has launched its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Innovation kit. According to the firm, the kit aims to support Fintech platforms and various other financial service providers that are looking to experiment with solutions based on virtual currencies… Read More

August 2, 2023 @ 9:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On-chain fund platform Solv Protocol has announced that it has secured $6 million in new funding. The platform received investments from “a variety of institutions, including Laser Digital, a subsidiary of Japanese banking firm Nomura Securities, UOB Venture Management, Mirana Ventures, Emirates Consortium, Matrix Partners,… Read More

July 31, 2023 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Passage reports that it has raised $6 million in order to launch an AI-driven Virtual World Builder. Funds were reportedly raised through private sale of its PASG token and will now “go towards the continuous development of the Passage world building platform, built with Cosmos… Read More

July 31, 2023 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Immediate, an earned wage access company, announced a $16 million round of funding. These funds, split between growth equity and a working capital facility, will “enable Immediate to accelerate its growth trajectory in the workplace financial health sector.” Immediate explains that it “solves liquidity challenges… Read More

July 30, 2023 @ 11:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aethir, a pioneer in Decentralized Cloud Infrastructure (DCI), recently announced the completion of its Pre-A funding round, bringing the total value raised “to date to over USD$9 million and the company valuation to USD$150 million.” The investment round was led by global investors, “including Sanctor… Read More

July 28, 2023 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Croissant, a Fintech platform with a mission to empower intentional commerce, launched today with $24 million in seed funding from a suite of top investors, including Portage and KKR co-founders George Roberts and Henry Kravis. Initial funding was used “to accelerate Croissant’s MVP launch via… Read More

July 27, 2023 @ 8:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Q-CTRL, a global firm focused on developing useful quantum technologies through quantum control infrastructure software, announced the addition of Morpheus Ventures as a new investor in their record-setting Series B funding round, which has raised $54 million USD. Morpheus Ventures, “known for its expertise in… Read More

July 23, 2023 @ 11:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Flash, Egypt’s cashless payments app, completed a $6 million seed round led by Addition along with participation from Flourish Ventures and other angel investors. This funding from the investment round will be used “to accelerate the startup’s product development and customer & business acquisition in… Read More