Venture Capital


Opinion

How Crypto Traders Are Reinventing Venture Capital

The digital asset ecosystem democratizes startup investing by granting everyday investors wider access to potentially outsized returns of liquid venture markets.

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Finance

Bloomberg Beta Leads $6.2M Funding for DAO Framework Origami

Origami and backer Orange DAO also announced a $20,000 funding program for pre-launch decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)

Origami team members Johnny Chin, Matt Voska, Ben Huh and Stephen Caudill (Origami)

Finance

A16z's Largest Crypto Fund Loses 40% in First Half of 2022: Report

Andreessen Horowitz has slowed down its crypto investments, making just nine in the third quarter, compared with 26 in the fourth quarter of last year.

A16z's flagship crypto fund loses 40% in the first half of 2022. (Haotian Zheng/Unsplash)

Finance

Bitcoin Technology Startup Synota Raises $3M in Seed Round

The new capital will be used toward the commercialization of Synota’s software, including plans for a bitcoin mining-related service.

Synota team at an active bitcoin mining site. (Synota)

Finance

Pension Fund-Backed Parataxis Digital Yield Fund Targets $500M in Assets in 2023

The fund received investments from two Fairfax County, Virginia, pension funds earlier this year.

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Finance

Celestia Labs Raises $55M to Build Modular Blockchain Network

The combined Series A and B round was led by Bain Capital Crypto and Polychain Capital.

Celestia Labs is betting on a modular blockchain future. (Shutterstock)

Videos

Pantera Capital Exec on How Venture Capital Is Investing in the Digital Economy

Venture capital (VC) funding for crypto startups sank 37% in Q3 to its lowest level in over a year. Pantera Capital Partner Lauren Stephanian discusses the state of VC crypto investing and institutional adoption. Plus, the impact and "pushback effect" of recent decentralized finance (DeFi) hacks on the industry.

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Finance

New Bitcoin-Focused VC Firm Ego Death Capital Raising $30M

The fund had raised over $11 million of its target as of mid-September.

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Finance

Nischal Shetty's Blockchain Startup Shardeum Raises $18M in Seed Funding

The co-founder of WazirX, India's largest crypto exchange, is now trying to expand a network that promises greater scalability, faster transaction times and lower fees.

Shardeum's team (Shardeum)

Finance

ParaFi Capital Among Backers for Web3 Fashion and Lifestyle Platform YoloYolo

Yoloyolo, which connects NFT owners and brands to sell merchandise, raised $3.5 million in seed funding.

Social commerce platform YoloYolo (YoloYolo)