Funding Rounds


Finance

Unstoppable Domains Hits Unicorn Status With $65M Series A

The funding was led by Pantera Capital, with Polygon, CoinDCX and CoinGecko also contributing.

Unstoppable Domains' Matthew Gould, founder and CEO (left) and Braden Pezeshki, co-founder and principal engineer (right) (Unstoppable Domains)

Finance

AI-Based Startup Optic Raises $11M to Put the ‘NF’ in NFTs

Optic’s near-term plans include creating a public API for Web3 developers and new tools for NFT creators and collectors.

Optic's AI engine checks new NFTs for potential counterfeits. (Optic)

Finance

Decentralized Oracle Empiric Network Launches With $7M Funding Round

Variant led the round for the StarkNet-based oracle, which was created in partnership with StarkWare.

Empiric Network is a decentralized oracle on StarkNet. (Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto VC Investments Drop 26% in First Half of 2022

Investments totaled $9.3 billion versus the $12.5 billion in last year’s period, but the number of deals increased.

Crypto VC investments have declined in the first half of 2022. (Shutterstock)

Finance

Paradigm Leads $16M Funding Round for Hang

The NFT brand membership platform went live on Thursday.

Hang co-founder and CEO Matt Smolin (Hang)

Finance

A16z, Variant Lead $18M Round for Lending Protocol Morpho Labs

The protocol enhances existing lending protocols such as Compound and Aave with peer-to-peer liquidity.

A16z partner Chris Dixon (Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

Finance

Dragonfly Capital Leads $7.5M Round for Quadrata’s Identity Passport

The startup offers verifiable yet private identity passports for Web3 users.

Quadrata team (Quadrata)

Finance

Web3 Startup Mysten Labs Aiming for $2B Valuation in Latest Funding: Report

FTX Ventures is reportedly leading this round for Mysten, which was founded by former Meta (Facebook) executives.

(Chris Rogers/Getty Images)

Finance

Cross-Chain Infrastructure Protocol LI.FI Raises $5.5M

The funding will help the firm expand to more blockchains.

(Chris Rogers/Getty Images)

Finance

Animoca Brands Leads $32M Funding Round for Planetarium Labs

The capital will help the Web3 gaming company develop its community-driven network.

Planetarium Labs closes $32M funding round. (Nuthawut Somsuk/Getty images)