Venture Capital


Finance

DeFi Dashboard Zapper Raises $15M to Build On-Platform App Store

Framework Ventures led the round with Mark Cuban and Ashton Kutcher also signing checks.

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Finance

Lubin, ConsenSys Vets Raising $75M Venture Fund, Documents Show

Ethereal Ventures has already started joining investments in early-stage blockchain startups. Other details are sparse.

Joseph Lubin, a co-founder of Ethereum and the CEO of ConsenSys, speaks at SXSW 2019.

Videos

NFT Platforms Continue to Attract Venture Capital Money

Investor money continues to pour into the NFT sphere. Jay-Z is among the backers of a $19 million funding round for Bitski, and the team behind the infamous Banksy burning NFT has raised $3 million to build a new NFT platform on the Solana blockchain. “The Hash” panel unpacks these latest developments.

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Markets

Jay-Z, A16z Back $19M Funding Round for NFT Platform Bitski

Describing itself as the “Shopify for NFTs,” Bitski aims to provide an easy platform for brands to sell digital goods.

Jay-Z at a Los Angeles Lakers game in March 2020.

Videos

Crypto Attracting Big Loads of Venture Capital

Multicoin Capital has raised its second venture fund for $100 million to double down on investments in crypto startups, which comes on the heels of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) reportedly collecting checks for a $1 billion cryptocurrency venture fund.  “The Hash” panel explores what this could mean for crypto startups and the overall impact crypto-backed VCs can have on the financial sector.

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Finance

Multicoin Raises $100M for New Crypto Venture Fund

The Texas-based crypto investment firm has lined up another nine-figure venture fund in its search for explosive blockchain startups.

Multicoin Capital managing partner Tushar Jain (center) speaks at Consensus 2019.

Finance

A16z to Launch $1B Crypto Venture Fund

The Silicon Valley VC giant is going big for its third crypto venture fund, the Financial Times reported Friday.

Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Chris Dixon

Finance

Paxos Raises $300M, Joins Crypto Unicorn Club at $2.4B Valuation

The back-end provider for PayPal and Venmo is raising “confidence capital” to expand operations, said CEO Charles Cascarilla.

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Finance

Bumper, a DeFi-Based Crypto Volatility Protection Plan, Raises $10M

The project shields users from crypto’s dips. Under the hood, it’s all about DeFi.

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Finance

'AWS for Blockchains' Alchemy Closes $80M Funding Round at $505M Valuation

Alchemy powers most of DeFi and almost all the big NFT platforms. The round was co-led by Coatue Management.

Left to right: Joe Lau, Alchemy co-founder, and chief technology officer; Nikil Viswanathan, Alchemy co-founder and CEO; John Hennessy, Google chairman and Alchemy investor