Fundraising


Finance

Solana-Based Drift Raises $25M to Build 'SuperApp' for DeFi Trading

The DeFi platform plans to build an array of financial services tools, including spot and derivatives trading and a predictions market.

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Finance

Hemi Labs Raises $15M to Launch Modular Blockchain in Round Led by Binance Labs

The Hemi Network testnet is now live, with a mainnet launch planned for the fourth quarter.

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Finance

Tokenized RWA Platform Huma Finance Gets $38M Investment, Plans Expansion to Solana and Stellar’s Soroban

Huma's payment-finance platform aims to address the liquidity needs of trade financing using blockchain technology for faster settlement.

Founders of Huma Finance and Arf (PRNewsfoto/Huma Finance, Arf)

Finance

Sonic SVM, Gaming Project on Solana Blockchain, Plans $12.8M Node Sale

The blockchain project is taking advantage of an increasingly popular fundraising method known as "node sales" just months after a traditional $12 million fundraise.

Chris Zhu, CEO and co-founder at Sonic SVM, onstage this week at Korea Blockchain Week (Sonic SVM)

Finance

Bridge Fundraising for Stablecoin-Based Payments Network Totals $58M: Report

Bridge, founded by Square and Coinbase alumni, recently raised $40 million in a round led by Sequoia and Ribbit.

Bridge (Charlie Green/Unsplash)

Tech

Fabric, Startup Building 'VPU' Chips for Cryptography, Raises $33M

The fundraising, co-led by Blockchain Capital and 1kx, will be used to "build computing chips, software and cryptographic algorithms," the company said.

Fabric Cryptography team (Fabric Cryptography)

Finance

Digital Assets Infrastructure Provider Parfin Raises $10M in Series A Funding

The company plans to reach $16 million by the end of a second closing.

Parfin co-founders (left to right): Alex Buelau, Marcos Viriato and Cristian Bohn (Parfin)

Finance

Morgan Creek Digital to Raise up to $500M for New Web3 Venture Capital Fund

The new fund will target early stage opportunities in AI, blockchain technology, chips and data.

Morgan Creek Digital to raise up to $500M for new Web3 venture capital fund. (Jason Leung/Unsplash)

Tech

Blockchain Startup Rome Raises $9M to Serve Ethereum Layer-2s Through Solana

Shared sequencers and data availability (DA) are services that Rome could provide, as blockchain builders increasingly rely on "modular" networks to handle Ethereum's myriad components and functions.

Rome co-founders Anil Kumar and Sattvik Kansal (Rome)

Tech

Ora, Aiming to 'Unlock Design Space for AI Dapps,' Raises $20M

The blockchain project, founded in 2022, aims to incorporate AI into decentralized applications with its "on-chain AI oracle."

Ora co-founder Kartin Wong (Kartin Wong/Ora)