Fundraising


Finance

French Fintech Lydia Attains Unicorn Status With $100M Series C Funding

The funding round includes new investors Dragoneers and Echo Street along with existing backers Tencent, Accel and Founders Future.

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Finance

DeFi Startup Earnity Raises $15M Led by Miner BitNile

Earnity said the platform will allow users to earn, learn about, collect and gift a variety of tokens and portfolios.

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Finance

Alameda Research Leads $35M Round in Crypto Investment Platform Stacked

The SEC-registered investment adviser plans to offer curated, risk-adjusted crypto portfolios to its customers in early 2022.

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Finance

AAG Ventures Raises $12.5M to Launch New ‘Learn-to-Earn’ Platform

The company will also create a platform for building play-to-earn guilds.

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Finance

Blockchain Security Firm CertiK Raises $80M at Nearly $1B Valuation

Sequoia Capital China led the round with participation from Tiger Global and other investors.

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Finance

A16z Leads $28M Round for Privacy Coin Iron Fish

Other investors in the round included Sequoia, Electric Capital and MetaStable, as well as Terra co-founder Do Kwon and Anchorage co-founder Nathan McCauley.

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Finance

NFT Authenticator ORIGYN Raises $20M at $300M Valuation

Paris Hilton is among the investors backing the Swiss nonprofit.

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Finance

Crypto Giants Back $3.2M Round for Data Provider Staking Rewards

Galaxy Digital, Digital Currency Group and CoinShares co-led the investment round.

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Finance

Payments Infrastructure Firm MoonPay Raises $555M at a $3.4B Valuation

The funding will be used to pursue M&A opportunities, hire more people and expand geographic coverage and payment methods.

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Policy

Blockchain Association Raises $4M to Grow Its Presence on Capitol Hill

Kraken, Digital Currency Group (DCG) and the Filecoin Foundation participated in the round.

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