Venture Capital


Finance

Soona Amhaz’s Volt Debuts $50M Crypto Fund Backed by Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon

The VC firm will continue to focus on infrastructure, DeFi, NFTs and DAOs.

Soona Amhaz at Permissionless conference. (Mike Lawrence/Permissionless)

Finance

Crypto Valley Venture Capital Launches African Blockchain Early-Stage Fund

The venture capital investor published a report that found funding for African blockchain startups far outpaced investment in other venture funding.

Crypto Valley Venture Capital announced an Africa blockchain startup fund at WEF in Davos. (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Finance

A16z Leads $15M Round for P2E Studio Azra Games

The blockchain gaming company is preparing to launch a fantasy collectibles and mass combat role-playing game.

Azra Games CEO and co-founder Mark Otero (Azra Games)

Finance

Crypto Wallet BitKeep Raises $15M at $100M Valuation

Dragonfly Capital led the round, which will fund a cross-chain DAO for wallet users.

(Archivo de CoinDesk)

Analyses

What Web 3 Means to Andreessen Horowitz

And what the venture capital firm's "State of Crypto" report means for you.

Marc Andreessen, a16z co-founder (Joi/Wikimedia Commons)

Finance

Blockchain Investment Firm Fortis Digital Raising $100M Fund

The fund focuses on altcoins and requires potential investors to have a minimum $2.5 million net worth.

Crypto Firms Took 6% of Global Venture Capital Funding in First Half of 2021

Finance

CyberConnect Raises $15M to Expand Social Graph Protocol

The project seeks to make user data interoperable between Web 3 dapps.

(John Barkiple/Unsplash)

Finance

Libra Creator David Marcus Begins New Lightning Network Venture, Lightspark

Details are vague, but Lightspark has raised an undisclosed funding round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Paradigm.

David Marcus (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto Risk Monitoring Firm Solidus Labs Raises $45M

Liberty City Ventures led the round for the market surveillance and risk monitoring startup, which has several ex-regulators as backers or advisors.

Solidus Labs CTO Praveen Kumar (left), COO Chen Arad (top) and CEO Asaf Meir (right).