Venture Capital


Finance

Gate Ventures on Track to Close $200M Crypto Fund by Q3

The VC arm of Gate.io will invest in layer 1 and layer 2 protocols that can help build an open internet.

Money (Mufid Majnun/Unsplash)

Finance

OneFootball Closes $300M Funding Round Led by Liberty City Ventures

The company also announced the formation of OneFootball Labs, a joint venture with Animoca Brands and Liberty City Ventures to accelerate its expansion into Web 3.

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Finance

Argent Raises $40M to Make Crypto Wallets Easier to Use

The company's non-custodial wallet lets users take control without needing to remember a complicated seed phrase.

Argent mobile app (Argent)

Finance

Dragonfly Capital Raises $650M for Third Crypto Fund

The new fund will allow Dragonfly to lead rounds in later-stage companies, the firm said.

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Finance

Maaria Bajwa: 'People Like to Root Against the Winners'

Bajwa once got wise advice from a mentor: To be valuable to your venture firm, you must have “domain expertise that no one else has.”

(Maaria Bajwa, modified by Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)

Finance

A16z Forms Crypto Research and Coding Unit to Help Web 3 Startups

The new team is staffed with academics aiming to provide deeper insights for the firm’s portfolio companies.

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

Finance

Tower 26 Venture Fund Raises $50M for VR Games, Metaverse: Report

The fund is led by a veteran game investor, and former studio executive Jon Goldman.

A Playstation VR headset (Sony)

Finance

Derek Edward Schloss: Unlocking the Art Market

Twitter and video games were just a stepping stone for Derek Schloss into crypto. Five years later, the leading VC makes good on his "big unlock."

(Derek Schloss, modified by Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Will Rising Interest Rates Sink the Crypto Ecosystem?

Competition for capital is clobbering speculative investments like tech stocks. Digital assets have held up comparatively well – so far.

Crypto investors may be in for rough sailing as interest rates rise. Charles Turner's "A Shipwreck," 1805, from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Finance

Framework Ventures Launches $400M Fund to Back Web 3 Gaming, DeFi

The crypto investment firm now has $1.4 billion in assets under management.

Framework Ventures co-founders Vance Spencer and Michael Anderson