Brandy Betz

Brandy covered crypto-related venture capital deals for CoinDesk. She previously served as the Technology News Editor at Seeking Alpha and covered healthcare stocks for The Motley Fool. She doesn't currently own any substantial amount of crypto.

Brandy Betz

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Finance

Crypto Investment Firm CoinFund Launches $300M Web3 Fund

Sectors of interest for the early-stage fund include layer 1 blockchains, gaming and NFTs.

CoinFund Managing Partner David Pakman (CoinDesk TV screenshot)

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Blockchain Scalability Firm StarkWare Launches Recursion to Streamline Ethereum

Recursive proofs could bundle tens of millions of NFTs off-chain to help streamline Ethereum.

StarkWare CEO Uri Kolodny (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Hedge Fund Point72’s Steve Cohen Plans Crypto Asset Manager: Report

The billionaire's new vehicle will trade spot cryptocurrencies and crypto derivatives.

Point72's Steve Cohen (right). (Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for Lincoln Center)

Finance

BlackRock, Fresh off Coinbase Tie-Up, Offers Direct Bitcoin Exposure

The institutional-investor-focused spot bitcoin private trust will track the price of the cryptocurrency.

BlackRock headquarters (Shutterstock)

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Maple Finance, a DeFi Platform for Institutional Lending, Unveils $40M Liquidity Pool

The pool is backed by crypto-native investment firm Maven 11.

Sid Powell, CEO of Maple Finance (Maple Finance)

Finance

Blockchain Payments Platform Ansible Labs Raises $7M in Seed Funding Round

The startup was founded by two former Visa workers.

Ansible Labs co-founders Daniel Mottice and Matt Vanhouten (Ansible Labs)

Finance

Bain Capital Leads $12M Round for Scalable Blockchain Developer RISC Zero

The startup uses zero-knowledge proofs to create a developer-friendly blockchain.

RISC Zero is building a scalable blockchain using zk rollups (Andrew Haimerl/Unsplash)

Finance

Greylock, Pantera Led $18M Round for NFT Infrastructure Provider Pinata

Silicon Valley investment giant Greylock also backed Pinata’s $3.5 million seed round last year.

Bored Ape (Yuga Labs)

Finance

Andreessen Horowitz Leads $20M Funding Round for CreatorDAO

Paris Hilton and musicians The Chainsmokers also invested in the project.

Paris Hilton was among the investors in CreatorDAO's latest funding round. (RB/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

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Crypto Intelligence Platform Messari Plans to Raise $35M at $300M Valuation: Report

The company nabbed $21 million last year in a round led by Steve Cohen's Point72 Ventures.

Messari CEO Ryan Selkis during a CDTV interview in October (CoinDesk)