Funding


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

5ire Raises $100M to Fund Expansion of Sustainable Blockchain

The company will use what it calls a Proof-of-Benefit mechanism, saying it is the only sustainability-focused blockchain unicorn in the world.

The 5ire team with Sailesh Hiranandani (second from right). (5ire)

Finance

Virtual Avatar Firm Hologram Raises $6.5M Seed Round

Hologram partners with online communities to help them create unique digital identities in the metaverse.

Hologram avatars (Hologram)

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

Crypto Custodian Copper Soon to Close Delayed Funding Round: Sources

Copper’s Series C round will value the company around $2 billion, according to two sources. The firm sought a $3 billion valuation in November.

(Karim Ghantous/Unsplash)

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

Lightspeed Venture Partners Launches New Funds Totaling More Than $7B

The venture capital firm also announced Lightspeed Faction, an independent team focused on early-stage blockchain infrastructure projects.

Lightspeed will be backing early-stage blockchain infrastructure projects. (Shutterstock)

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

Gnosis Safe Rebrands as Safe, Raises $100M

The platform renamed itself Safe following its community vote to separate from Ethereum infrastructure builder Gnosis.

(Steve Buissinne/Pixabay)

Finance

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

The funding will help the firm expand to more blockchains.

(Chris Rogers/Getty Images)