Funding Rounds


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.

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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)

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)

Finance

LabDAO Raises $3.6M to Decentralize Drug Discovery

The project also launched its new PLEX client that eases the burden of resource-intensive computations for scientific data.

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Finance

ZK Startup Lagrange Labs Raises $4M to Build Secure DeFi Interoperability

The round was led by investment firm 1kx and included contributions from Maven11, Lattice Fund, CMT Digital, Daedalus Angels

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Web3

Airstack Raises Over $7M for AI-Backed Web3 Developer Platform

The pre-seed funding extension was led by Superscrypt; Polygon was a prior investor.

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner Cormint Raises $30M Series A to Build Texas Data Center

Executives of Nasdaq-listed semiconductor firm Silicon Laboratories participated in the funding round.

Mining rig (Getty Images)

Finance

Peter Thiel Backs Bitcoin Startup River in $35M Round

The Series B funding for the Bitcoin financial services provider was led by Kingsway Capital.

River Financial CEO Alex Leishman at BTC 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Digital-Linked Startup Auradine Raises $81M

Marathon's CEO, Fred Thiel, sits on the board of the web infrastructure startup.

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

Finance

Decentralized Wallet Developer Odsy Network Raises $7.5M at $250M Valuation

The funding round was led by Blockchange Ventures and included participation from Rubik Ventures, Node Capital and FalconX among others.

Odsy Foundation founders (l-r): Yehonatan Cohen Scaly, David Lachmish, Omer Sadika, Sean Lee. (Odsy Foundation)