Funding


Finance

Startup Raises $1.5M to Make DAO Creation as Easy as Starting a Group Chat

The Solana-based Squads is looking to unleash the next wave of DAOs.

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Finance

Republic Closes $150M Series B Funding Round

The investment firm, which includes a crypto arm, raised a $36 million Series A round in March.

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Finance

Sino Global Capital Launches $200M Fund Backed by FTX

The fund will focus on Solana and Ethereum projects in Asia and specifically India.

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Finance

Decentralized Exchange ZkLink Raises $8.5M Ahead of Market Launch

The team behind the project said the DEX is seeing strong demand following China’s latest crypto crackdown.

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Finance

Worldcoin, Now Valued at $1B, Has Grand Plans to Get You to Gaze Into the Orb

A16z and Coinbase Ventures are betting big billions of people will line up to gaze into “The Orb” in exchange for crypto. Over 130,000 already have.

The Orb in Indonesia (Worldcoin)

Finance

Sotheby’s, Future Perfect Ventures Invest $20M in NFT Tech Firm Mojito

The funding will go toward expanding the Mojito team’s engineering and product side as well as building out tooling and services.

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Finance

Fanatics-Owned Candy Digital Raises $100M From Insight Partners, SoftBank

Connect Ventures and Athletes Syndicate in partnership with Chaos Ventures also participated in the round.

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Finance

Andreessen Horowitz Invests in New Meta4 NFT Fund

A16z is the lead investor in Meta4′s new fund, which will invest in rare digital art and collectibles such as the Bored Ape Yacht Club.

Arianna Simpson, now a partner on the a16z crypto investment team, speaks a CoinDesk's Consensus: Invest 2017.

Finance

BIT Mining Invests Another $11M in Ohio Crypto Mining Data Center

The funding will be used to add an extra 65 megawatts of power capacity.

Ohio Congressman: Bitcoin Poses No Threat to US Dollar

Finance

Crypto Lender Celsius Network Raises $400M in Bid to Reassure Regulators

The investment gives the company a $3 billion valuation.

Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky (CoinDesk archives)