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

Salesforce Leads $6M Round for AI-Backed Web3 Data Platform Mnemonic

The startup provides actionable non-fungible token (NFT) data for enterprises and developers.

Mnemonic co-founders Andrii Yasinetsky and Elena Ikonomovska (Mnemonic)

Finance

TradFi Giant TP ICAP Brings Crypto Spot Trading to Institutional Investors

The Fusion Digital Assets marketplace opened last week offering trading in bitcoin and ether versus the U.S. dollar.

TP ICAP, a major player in traditional financial markets, is entering the world of digital assets. (Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images)

Finance

StepStone VC Raises $97M for Two Blockchain Funds

SEC filings show pooled investment figures for the two private equity funds.

Lending money handing over paying cash (Shutterstock)

Finance

PayPal Ventures Leads $52M Round for Crypto Firm Magic

The startup offers non-custodial wallet infrastructure for an enterprise client list that includes Macy’s and Mattel.

(Pixabay)

Finance

Crypto Infrastructure Firm Anoma Foundation Raises $25M

The Swiss non-profit oversees the Anoma blockchain architecture and the layer 1 blockchain Namada.

Brevan Howard Digital was among the backers for Puffer's $5.5 million round. (Pixabay)

Web3

Web3 Payments Firm Transak Raises $20M

The startup offers on- and off-ramps that could make it easier for new users to interact with Web3 projects.

(Pixabay)

Finance

Sam Altman’s Crypto Project Worldcoin Raises $115M, Led by Blockchain Capital

Other investors in the Series C round included a16z, Bain Capital Crypto and Distributed Global.

Worldcoin co-founders Alex Blania and Sam Altman (Marc Olivier/Worldcoin)

Web3

Dispersion Capital Opens $40M Fund for Web3 Infrastructure

The fund was founded by Patrick Chang, an active angel investor in the crypto industry.

Beldex raises $25 million with a new DWF Labs partnership (Unsplash)

Finance

TradFi Hedge Fund Hunting Hill Starts Crypto Arm

Hunting Hill Digital’s first product will be the Crypto 25 Fund, a source told CoinDesk.

New York (Florian Wehde/Unsplash)

Finance

Multicoin Leads $2.3M FastLane VC Deal, Continuing Its Bet on MEV Infrastructure

The crypto-focused investment firm has now backed three projects centered around maximal extractable value (MEV), a way for validators to earn extra money from traders.

Multicoin's Kyle Samani (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)