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Finance

Zigazoo, a Social Network for Kids, Raises $17M to Further Web3 Ambitions

The app recently sold out four NFT drops tied to top children’s brands and talent.

Zigazoo's sold-out NFT collection Long Neckie Kids #1 (Zigazoo)

Finance

Fintech Firm PolySign Raises $53M to Expand Staff

The funding round follows the firm’s acquisition of fund administrator MG Stover in April.

PolySign plans to increase its headcount by 20% to 30%. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Finance

Peaq Raises $6M in Funding Round Led by Fundamental Labs

The Web3 network aims to help users build, govern, own and earn from decentralized apps for machines.

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Finance

Alan Howard-Backed Cryptography Investor Geometry Emerges From Stealth

Tom Walton-Pocock, the former CEO of zero-knowledge proofs shop Aztec, is heading up Geometry.

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Blockchain Analytics Firm Kaiko Raises $53M Series B Led by Eight Roads Amid Bear Market

The investment will enable Kaiko to further strengthen its institutional data products and infrastructure, it said.

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Finance

Crypto Exchange Unizen Receives $200M 'Capital Commitment' From Investment Group GEM

The investment is milestone-based and performance-related as a means of ensuring the funding is optimized fully.

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

Finance

Flowdesk Raises $30M to Expand Market-Making Services

The French company will boost its flagship product to provide liquidity fund management services to cryptocurrency issuers.

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Finance

Bit Digital Production Slump Continued Into Q1, Strikes Deals With Coinmint, Riot to Increase Hashrate

The bitcoin miner has struggled to recover its hashrate since moving its operations out of China.

Blockfusion's mining facility in Niagara Falls, New York, that hosts Bit Digital's mining rigs. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Finance

Ex-Sushi CTO Raises $8M for NFT Lending Platform Astaria

The platform, led by CEO Justin Bram and DeFi vet Joseph Delong, aims to provide instant liquidity for your JPEGs and should be available to the public by September.

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Finance

’Stripe for NFTs’ NFTPort Raises $26M Series A

The round was co-led by Atomico and Taavet+Sten, the investment arm from the co-founders of Wise and Teleport.

A venture capitalist and an entrepreneur talk business. (Maskot/Getty images)