Tagged: pantera capital

June 25, 2024 @ 3:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dan Morehead, CEO at Pantera Capital, confirmed that Pantera recently made the largest investment in its history in the TON initiative. Dan Morehead explained via social media that TON is a Layer 1 network originally “designed by Telegram and continued by the open source community.”… Read More

May 5, 2024 @ 3:33 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Pantera Capital has announced a significant investment in TON, the Telegram L1 blockchain, signaling a major push to boost cryptocurrency adoption across the globe. Revealed on the social media platform X, this collaboration is set to utilize Telegram’s vast user base of over 900 million… Read More

January 20, 2024 @ 12:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dan Morehead, the Founder and Managing Partner of Pantera Capital, recently looked into whether altcoins can outperform Bitcoin during this bull cycle. Dan Morehead noted that this is a question they often hear from digital assets and blockchain industry participants. His colleagues Cosmo Jiang and… Read More

April 28, 2022 @ 2:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ondo Finance has finalized a $20 million Series A to accelerate the adoption of DeFi “among mainstream investors.” This latest investment round was led by Founders Fund, the venture capital firm founded by Peter Thiel, and Pantera Capital. The funding will “allow Ondo to build… Read More

April 23, 2022 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MetaLend, the bank for the new digital economy, recently announced the closing of a $5 million seed round of financing, “led by Pantera Capital.” MetaLend’s investment round also included contributions from Collab+Currency, investor and board member of Sky Mavis; Ancient8, Vietnam’s largest gaming guild, and… Read More

March 2, 2022 @ 6:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Subspace Labs, the developer of Subspace Network, recently revealed that they have finalized a $32.9 million financing round that was led by Pantera Capital along with contributions from Coinbase Ventures, Crypto.com, Alameda Research, ConsenSys Mesh, and KR1. Other investors reportedly include: Hypersphere Ventures, Stratos Technologies,… Read More

March 2, 2022 @ 3:17 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The roster for CoinList Seed’s Winter 2022 batch is proof positive venture capital funding for blockchain startups is as strong as ever, the company said. Between 2020 and 2021 VC funding for blockchain-based startups soared from $3.1 billion in 2020 to $25.2 billion only one… Read More

August 17, 2021 @ 12:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ondo Finance reveals that it has secured $4 million in capital in order to bring “programmable” DeFi returns to investors with “a wide array” of risk preferences. The equity round has reportedly been led by Pantera Capital along with contributions from Genesis, Digital Currency Group,… Read More

August 3, 2021 @ 11:36 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Cryptocurrency wealth platform Vauld has completed a $25 million Series A round led by Valar Ventures, a VC firm cofounded by Peter Thiel. Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, CMT Digital, Gumi Cryptos, Robert Leshner and Cadenza Capital also participated. The funding will be used to hire… Read More

May 1, 2021 @ 11:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley’s most high-profile VC companies that invests in “software eating the world,” is reportedly planning or looking into establishing a new fund of around $1 billion. According to a report from the FT, this new fund would make strategic investments… Read More

February 21, 2021 @ 9:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The current Bitcoin (BTC) bull market has been fueling another major boom in blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT) startup deals. Coinbase Ventures had launched back in 2018, which was during the extended cryptocurrency bear market that lasted from early January of that year to… Read More

December 3, 2020 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

1inch, a decentralized (or non-custodial) crypto exchange aggregator provider, has finalized a $12 million investment round that was led by Pantera Capital. The 1inch team stated that they’re pleased to confirm the successful closure of their latest round which also included contributions from institutional investors such… Read More

November 23, 2020 @ 7:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paypal (NASDAQ: PYPL) has reportedly acquired as much as 70% of all the newly mined Bitcoin (BTC) since the payments company began allowing users to purchase digital currencies. These estimates have been provided by Pantera Capital, a prominent hedge fund management firm. The company published… Read More

July 29, 2020 @ 8:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Injective Protocol, a “decentralized” derivatives exchange, have acquired $2.6 million through a seed funding round that was led by Pantera Capital. Injective Protocol has been incubated by Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange. Injective’s developers have also acquired investments from Axia8… Read More

March 16, 2020 @ 1:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bakkt has raised $300 million in a funding round led by very big names including Microsoft’s M12, PayU, Boston Consulting Group, Goldfinch Partners, CMT Digital, and Pantera Capital. Of course, Bakkt’s sibling the Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) participated as well. The Form D (506b) filed with… Read More

February 15, 2020 @ 12:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Leading US-based crypto venture capital funds are investing in a relatively small Asian digital asset firm that claims that it has facilitated the trade of $100 billion in crypto-assets since 2018.  Paradigm, Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, Polychain Capital, and Blockchain.com have collectively invested… Read More

February 5, 2020 @ 9:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Transparent Financial Systems, Inc., a U.S.-based startup that’s developing on-demand, 24/7/365, cryptographic settlement solutions, announced on Wednesday it secured $14 million through its Series A financing round, which was led by Pantera Capital with participation from Square, Inc., Future\Perfect Ventures, IDEO Colab Ventures, Digital Currency… Read More

October 2, 2019 @ 11:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Vega, a decentralized trading technology startup, announced on Wednesday it secured $5 million through its latest funding round, which was led by Pantera Capital. Founded in 2018, Vega describes itself as a technology protocol that is building an open, blockchain-based public network for fully automated… Read More

April 25, 2019 @ 10:28 am By Cali Haan  |  

Pantera Capital, a “blockchain investment fund” based in San Francisco, is seeking to raise the final $15 million USD it needs to close its $175 million dollar Venture Fund III raise. According to Pantera, “Investors who commit $5 mm or more will have co-investment rights… Read More

October 22, 2018 @ 5:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

Y-Combinator grad Synthetic Minds has just announced a $5.5 million seed round led by Pantera Capital and Khosla Ventures. Synthetic Minds is tech that works to bullet proof smart contracts. According to founder Saurabh Srivastava, they protect smart contracts by “using formal methods to synthesize their… Read More