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Metrika Raises $14M in Series A Funding
– Metrika is a Cambridge, Mass.-based operational intelligence source for blockchain.
– Company raised $14M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Neotribe Ventures with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Samsung NEXT, Nyca Partners and SCB 10X, and previous investors, among others.
– The new investment will be used to expand the company’s platform and broaden its customer base across numerous industries.
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Floating Point Group Raises $10M in Series A Funding
– Floating Point Group, a Hoboken, N.J.-based, MIT-born provider of a platform that simplifies the backend operations for investors to deploy cryptocurrency-centric strategies at scale, raised $10m in Series A funding.
– Backers included Tribe Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Anthony Scaramucci, F A S T by Gettlylab, Borderless Capital, CapitalX, Formulate Ventures, and executives from GoldenTree Asset Management, HC Tech, and Pythagorus Investments.
– The company intends to use the funds to grow its existing U.S. based software engineering staff and expand to new markets.
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Hyperithm Raises $11M in Series B Funding
– Hyperithm is a digital asset manager based in Tokyo, Japan and Seoul, Korea.
– The company raised $11M in Series B funding.
– The round was co-led by Hashed and Wemade Tree, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Cocone, GS Futures, and Guardian Fund.
– The new investment will be used to expand the company’s business reach.
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MobileCoin Raises $66m To Scale Its Simple, Safe, And Fast Payment Technology
– MobileCoin, a safe and easy digital payments ecosystem, today announced the closing of its $66m Series B to further develop MobileCoin technology.
– The round was led by Alameda Research, Berggruen Holdings, BlockTower Capital, Coinbase Ventures, General Catalyst, Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures, and Vy Capital.
– This round will be used to further develop MobileCoin’s products, including MOBot, the first cryptocurrency chatbot payment system, the company’s Merchant Services buildout, and the rollout of its initial stablecoin, whose value will stay constant with the US dollar.
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Two months after its Series A, Pintu gets $35M in new funding led by Lightspeed
– Indonesian crypto assets platform Pintu has closed a $35m Series A+.
– The new round was led by Lightspeed Ventures, with participation from returning investors like Alameda Ventures, Blockchain.com Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Intudo Ventures and Pantera Capital.
– Pintu is the latest investment app in Southeast Asia to quickly raise a much larger follow-on round as interest in retail investing grows.
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Messari Raises $21M in Series A Funding
– Messari is a NYC-based crypto market intelligence company.
– The company closed a $21m Series A funding.
– Point72 Ventures led the round with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Uncork Capital, and Underscore VC as well as new strategic investors Alameda Capital, Blockchain Ventures, CMS Holdings, Gemini Frontier Fund, Winklevoss Capital, Kraken Ventures, and Nascent.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand the global reach of its Pro and Enterprise product suites, triple the size of its engineering and research teams, introduce new offerings that streamline participation in decentralized projects and their communities and to grow its institutional footprint and its community research and educational content, including the production of Mainnet 2021, Messari’s annual summit, which the company will host September 20-22 in New York City.
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MakersPlace Raises $30M in Series A Funding
– MakersPlace, a San Francisco, CA-based NFT marketplace for digital art, secured $30M in Series A funding.
– The round was co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Pantera Capital with participation from Uncork Capital, Draper Dragon Digital Assets, 9Yards Capital, Next Play Ventures, Coinbase Ventures and Sony Music Entertainment.
– The company will use the funds to acquire additional talent and scale the business in existing markets and explore new ones.
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Paxos Raises Further Series D Funding
– Paxos is a NYC-based regulated blockchain infrastructure platform.
– Bank of America, Coinbase Ventures, Founders Fund and FTX joined the Series D round of funding.
– Paxos has raised more than $540m in funding to date.
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Onramp Invest Raises $6M in Seed Round to Accelerate Growth and Integration Plans
– Onramp has raised $6m in seed fundraising with major contributions from Coinbase Ventures, Eterna Capital, Fox Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Galaxy Fund Management, Gemini Frontier Fund, Ritholtz Wealth Management and WisdomTree.
– As a result of this raise, Onramp plans to expand its service offering to RIAs, explore broker-dealer registration, and increase the size of its engineering team.
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Vauld Raises $25M in Series A Funding
– Vauld is a global platform for building wealth with crypto based in Bangalore, India.
– Series A funding of $25m was led by Valar Ventures and attracted Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, CMT Digital, Gumi Cryptos, Robert Leshner, Cadenza Capital and others.
– The new investment will be used to build out its team and further its global expansion.
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Blockchain Security Firm CertiK Announces $37M Series B from Coatue, Shunwei Capital, Coinbase Ventures
– CertiK announced a $37M Series B funding round co-led by Coatue Management and Shunwei Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures.
– This is the largest single round of fundraising in the blockchain security space, adding to CertiK’s list of notable backers, which include IDG Capital, Binance, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Yale University, and others.
– CertiK is a pioneer in blockchain security, utilizing best-in-class AI technology to audit and monitor blockchain protocols and smart contracts.
– Since Q1 2020, CertiK’s team size has more than doubled, and this rate of growth will continue in 2021, creating a highly effective, remote-friendly culture with talent located worldwide.
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ClayStack Liquid Staking Protocol Raises $5.2 Million in Seed Funding Co-Led by CoinFund and ParaFi Capital
– ClayStack is a next-generation staking platform for digital assets.
– The company raised $5.2m in a seed funding round co-led by leading blockchain-focused investment firm, CoinFund, and ParaFi Capital.
– The round also received participation from Coinbase Ventures, Spartan Group, HyperSphere, Defiance Capital, Hashed, Solana Foundation, The LAO, Genblock Capital, Ledger Prime, Animoca Brands, Republic Labs, and more.
– The recent funding will help ClayStack redefine the current staking ecosystem by building a robust platform that is secure and open for all.
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Bling Secures Seed Financing
– Bling, a gaming platform that enables game developers to give bitcoin rewards, announced it closed a seed round to grow its team and further develop its platform.
– The round included a strategic investment by Coinbase Ventures.
– Pre-seed investors included Wavemaker Genesis, Gumi Cryptos Capital, and Blocktower Capital.
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Amber Group Raises $100M in Series B Funding at $1 Billion Valuation
– Amber Group, a Hong Kong-based crypto trading and technology company, raised $100m in Series B funding at a $1b valuation.
– The round was led by China Renaissance Group, Tiger Brokers, Tiger Global Management, Arena Holdings, Tru Arrow Partners, A&T Capital, Sky9 Capital, DCM Ventures, Gobi Partners, as well as existing investors Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Blockchain.com, Bit Digital, Digital Finance Group, Fenbushi Capital, Math Wallet, SNZ Capital, Continue Capital, and Mr. Zhao Qingsun.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand global operations and develop market solutions for crypto investors and companies.
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Tesseract Raises $25M in Series A Funding
– Tesseract from Helsinki is an institutional digital asset lending company in Europe and emerging markets.
– The company raised $25m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Augmentum Fintech with participation from Icebreaker.vc, BlackFin Capital Partners, Concentric, DN Capital, Jabre Capital Partners, LeadBlock Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute and Woorton as well as undisclosed local and international investors and strategic angels.
– The new investment will be used to develop the company’s institutional offerings and cross-trading venue margin lending platform even further, hire new talent to develop new and existing partnerships, and to boost innovation in new undisclosed financial products.
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Bitwise Asset Management Inc. Completes $70 Million Series B, Valuing the Company at More Than $500 Million
– Bitwise announced the completion of its Series B.
– The round was led by Elad Gil and Electric Capital, joined by new backers including Daniel Loeb’s Third Point LLC, Daniel Och’s Willoughby Capital, Louis Bacon’s Moore Strategic Ventures, Paul Eisenstein’s Vetamer Capital, and Coinbase Ventures.
– Bitwise plans to use the proceeds from its Series B round to strengthen its balance sheet and accelerate the national buildout of its organization, team and product suite.
– Bitwise is the world’s largest cryptocurrency index fund manager and is currently profitable.
– Assets under management are up more than 20x year over year, crossing $1.2 billion at the end of Q1 and taking the company to profitability.
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Indonesian crypto exchange Pintu gets $6M Series A led by Pantera, Intudo and Coinbase Ventures
– Pintu, a platform focused on first-time cryptocurrency buyers, announced it has raised a $6m Series A.
– The round was led by Pantera Capital, Intudo Ventures and Coinbase Ventures.
– Other participants in the round included Blockchain.com Ventures, Castle Island Ventures and Alameda Ventures.
– The company plans to use the funding to expand its team and develop new features.
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Digital Asset Savings and Loan Platform Ledn Raises US$30M Series A
– Ledn Inc., a global digital asset platform offering innovative saving and lending products for Bitcoin and other digital assets, is pleased to announce the completion of a $30m Series A financing round led by Kingsway Capital, with participation from new investors including Alan Howard, Hashed, Susquehanna Private Equity Investments LLLP, ParaFi Capital, Alexis Ohanian, and John Pfeffer.
– All investors from Ledn’s prior round including White Star Capital’s Digital Asset Fund, Coinbase Ventures, Global Founders Capital and CMT Digital also participated to fuel Ledn’s growth.
– Ledn has grown its assets on its platform by over 320% since its last round, just six months ago.
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Crusoe Closes $128M Series B
– Crusoe Energy Systems from San Francisco has closed a $128m Series B equity financing led by Valor Equity Partners.
– Lowercarbon Capital, DRW Venture Capital, Founders Fund, Bain Capital Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Polychain Capital, KCK Group, Upper90, Winklevoss Capital, Exor, Zigg Capital and JB Straubel participated.
– The company provides solutions for the energy industry.
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Sardine Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding
– Sardine is a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a fraud prevention as a Service (FaaS) for digital businesses.
– The company raised $4.6m in seed funding.
– The round was led by XYZ Ventures with participation from 11.2 Capital, Village Global, and Coinbase Ventures.
– Sardine combines millions of data points per customer around browser fingerprinting, mobile device attributes, network traffic, sensor data, and intrinsic user behavior to identify bad actors quickly.
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Avanti Completes $37M Series A Funding
– Avanti Financial Group announced the closing of its Series A financing round at $37 million.
– Trace Mayer, Marcel Kasumovich, Rob Kauffman (Aldel Capital), Tim Keefe, Lawrence Lepard, Eric Ly and others were among the investors.
– Institutional investors included 1843 Capital, AP Capital, Banca del Ceresio, Binance.US, Coinbase Ventures, ECMC Group, Equity Management Associates, Greybull Stewardship, Hard Yaka, HashKey, Holon Global Investments, Lemniscap, Madison Paige Ventures, Morgan Creek Digital, PJT Partners, Slow Ventures, Susquehanna Private Equity Investments and The University of Wyoming Foundation.
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Vega raises $5M to give anyone the ability to launch a derivatives market
– Vega, a startup that is building a decentralized protocol for creating and trading on derivatives markets, has raised $5m in funding.
– The round was led by Arrington Capital and Cumberland DRW co-led the round, which also included participation from Coinbase Ventures, ParaFi Capital, Signum Capital, CMT Digital, CMS Holdings, Three Commas and a slew of others.
– The new investment brings Vega’s total funding raised to more than $10m, according to Crunchbase data.
– Vega founder Barney Mannerings launched the Vega project in 2018 with the mission of giving anyone the ability to create and launch a derivatives market.
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FalconX Raises $50M in Funding
– FalconX from San Francisco provides a platform facilitating trading, credit, and clearing for institutions.
– Company raised $50m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Tiger Global and B Capital Group joined by Coinbase Ventures, CMT Digital, Flybridge Capital Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Avon Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to scale its team and further expand its business lines to support new market growth.
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Eco raises $26M in a16z-led round to scale its digital cryptocurrency platform
– Eco, a digital global cryptocurrency platform, raised $26m funding.
– The round was led by a16z Crypto and joined by Founders Fund, Activant Capital, Slow Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Tribe Capital, Valor Capital Group and more than one hundred other funds and angels.
– CoinList co-founder Andy Bromberg stepped down from his role last fall to head up Eco.
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TaxBit Raises $100M in Series A Funding
– TaxBit is a Salt Lake City, UT-based provider of cryptocurrency tax and accounting automation software.
– The company raised $100M in Series A funding led by Paradigm and Tiger Global with participation from PayPal Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Winklevoss Capital, Bill Ackman, Qualtrics co-founder and chairman Ryan Smith, Anthony Pompliano, former Venmo COO Michael Vaughan, Galaxy Digital, Valar Ventures, Collaborative, Global Founders Capital, Album Ventures, TTV Capital, Original Capital, and more.
– The company’s platform helps automate all aspects of cryptocurrency tax compliance for enterprises, consumers, and governments.
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Synthetix Raises $12M in Funding
– Synthetix is a decentralized trading platform.
– Company raised $12m in funding.
– The round was led by Coinbase Ventures, Paradigm and IOSG.
– The new investment will be used to expand the company’s business reach and recruit talent.