Funding


Фінанси

Startup Kaito Gets $87.5M Valuation in New Funding to Build AI Search Engine for Crypto

The search engine combines real-time data with large language models like ChatGPT.

(Hitesh Choudhary/Unsplash)

Фінанси

Australian Data Center Startup Arkon Expands to U.S. With $26M in Fresh Funding

CEO Joshua Payne said he expects the acquisition of a data center in Hannibal, Ohio to be "the first of several" over the next year.

Bitcoin miners are attractive partners to build AI data centers: Bernstein. (Shutterstock)

Фінанси

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s ResearchHub Startup Raises $5M in Funding

The Series A round was led by Open Source Software Capital with participation from Boost VC, RedHat's Bob Young, Vercel’s Guillermo Rauch and Replit's Amjad Masad.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (CoinDesk archives)

Web3

Red Beard Ventures Closes $25M Funding Round With Animoca Brands, Others

The Web3 venture capital firm hopes to support early-stage DeFi and Web3 gaming projects and is also launching a tokenomics accelerator.

Drew Austin (Red Beard Ventures)

Технології

Polygon Co-Founder Launches Web3 Fellowship Program

Sandeep Nailwal will invest $500,000 of his personal capital on a new cohort each year.

Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Фінанси

Crypto Wallet Giddy Raises $6.9M in Funding to Further Self-Custody Adoption

Fortnite co-creator Geremy Mustard took part as a strategic investor in the round.

Giddy's founding team from left to right: David Bland, Adam Olsen, Eric Parker, David Hurst, Ethan Parker, Brendan Wanlass (Giddy)

Фінанси

Crypto Storage Provider Zodia Custody Raises $36M From SBI Holdings, Standard Chartered

The firm will use the funds to increase its token coverage and enhance its settlement product, Interchange.

Standard Chartered (Shutterstock)

Фінанси

Cata Labs Raises $4.2M to Develop 'Bridging' Software

The round was led by Spartan Group and included participation from Robot Ventures, Maven 11, Alchemy Ventures, HashKey Capital, Circle Ventures and Superscrypt.

(Shubham Dhage/Unsplash)

Фінанси

DeFi Protocol iZUMi Finance Raises $22M

The fundraising round involved issuing semi-fungible tokens.

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

Фінанси

DeFi Protocol DFlow Raises $5.5M to Bring Payment for Order Flow to Crypto

The project would bring a controversial practice in the equities market into the world of decentralized finance.

Lending money handing over paying cash (Shutterstock)