Funding


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)

Finance

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)

Finance

Blockchain Analytics Platform Merkle Science Raises $19M to Take on Bridge Exploits

The threat detection company added funding to its Series A round, which now totals more than $24 million.

Merkle Science co-founder and CEO Mriganka Pattnaik (Melody Wang/CoinDesk)

Technology

Korean Blockchain Project Klaytn Commits $20M to Blockchain Research

The funding program will support research led by two of Asia’s most highly ranked technology schools.

Klaytn's funding aims to support industry research in a program led by two of Asia’s highly ranked technology schools. (Noah Buscher/Unsplash)

Finance

Cashmere Raises $3M at $30M Valuation to Build Solana Enterprise Wallet

Investors in the seed funding round included Coinbase Ventures, FBG Capital and YCombinator.

Cashmere co-founders Charlotte McGinn and Shashank Khanna (Cashmere)

Finance

Multi-Blockchain Platform Geeq Receives $25M Capital Commitment From Investment Group GEM

The financing differs from traditional funding rounds in that the flow of capital depends on how Geeq performs.

Unizen has received $200 million from alternative investment group Global Emerging Markets. (Shutterstock)

Finance

Hedge Fund Manager Steve Cohen Exits Crypto Trading Firm Radkl: Report

The New York Mets baseball team's owner planned investment in Radkl was reported at the firm's inception in September.

(Paul Brennan/Pixabay)