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Finance

Investment Firm Valkyrie Branches Into Venture Capital With Focus on Israeli Crypto Startups

Veteran venture capitalist Lluis Pedragosa is leading the new team with a $30 million target fund.

Valkyrie CEO Leah Wald (CoinDesk TV)

Finance

Bitcoin App Developer Trust Machines Hires Coinbase, BNY Mellon Veterans

Manas Mohapatra and Asiff Hirji joined the firm in legal and advisory roles.

Trust Machines co-founder Muneeb Ali (CoinDesk archives)

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)

Opinion

Will Reality Have Its Revenge on Andreessen Horowitz's Giant New Crypto Fund?

In an era of rising interest rates, personality and charm should take a back seat to results. But Andreessen Horowitz is rolling the dice on charisma one more time.

WeWork founder and former CEO Adam Neumann in 2018, before the company's decline. Neumann is launching a new blockchain startup called Flowcarbon. (Kevin Hagen/Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto Trader Dexterity Capital Launches Token Consulting, Market-Making Arm

DCLiquidity aims to guide crypto founders through their project’s earliest days.

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Finance

Bitcoin Mining Startup Blockmetrix Raises $43M in Series B Round

The company had previously raised $7 million that went into deploying more than 1,000 mining rigs.

Crypto mining machines (Christinne Muschi/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Will DAOs Replace Crypto Venture Capital?

Amid backlash over venture capital firms, decentralized autonomous organizations are emerging as a community-bootstrapped way to fund crypto projects.

Andreessen Horowitz co-founder and General Partner Marc Andreessen (Fortune Live Media via Flickr)

Finance

Kraken Ventures Raises $65M for Early-Stage Crypto Fund

The fund will invest in financial infrastructure, Web 3, DeFi, artificial intelligence and machine learning startups.

Kraken co-founder and CEO Jesse Powell

Finance

Animoca Brands Leads $18M Series A for Play-to-Earn Upstart Avocado Guild

The guild wants to empower members to participate in virtual worlds and Web 3.

An illustration of the Avocado Guild metaverse. (Avocado Guild)

Finance

Crypto Exchange WOO Network Closes $30M Series A

WOO Network is betting on deep liquidity to break into the crypto exchange landscape.

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