Malaysian regulated crypto exchange Hata nabs $4.2m in seed funding for Asia expansion

Cryptocurrency exchange Hata.io has raised $4.2 million in seed funding to expand its crypto offerings and user base across the Asia Pacific region. Malaysian crypto exchange Hata has secured $4.2 million in a seed funding round led by Castle Island…

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Polygon spinoff Avail raises $27 million in seed funding to build Web3 infrastructure

Avail, a blockchain infrastructure project, raised $27 million in its seed funding round led by notable venture capital firms Founders Fund and Dragonfly, according to a Feb. 26 statement shared with CryptoSlate.

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Crypto Recovery Specialist Asset Reality Raises $4.91M to Hire Engineers, Expand Ops

The irreversibility of cryptocurrency transactions presents a unique challenge for recovering stolen assets. The seed funding round was led by Framework Ventures and other investors.

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GameFi platform metaENGINE raises $4M in seed funding ahead of its v1 release

metaENGINE, a first-of-its-kind blockchain gaming infrastructure platform, today announced the completion of a $4 million seed funding. The seed ound was co-led by Lemniscap and Jump Crypto with participation from Polygon Studios, Blockwall, blufolio, Insignius Capital, Future Fund, CoinDCX Ventures, Efficient Frontier, Maelstrom, and other leading VC funds and prominent angels.

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DFX Stablecoin DEX Raises $5 Million in Seed Funding

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Facebook Veterans Launch NFT Powered Social App Following US$1.5M Seed Funding

Vault. io, Inc. , a New York-based startup headed by former Facebook veterans, has announced the launch of Editional, an Ethereum-based social platform that allows users to create, claim, and trade unique collectibles online.

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Prediction Markets Platform Guesser Receives $1.1 Million In Funding to Compete with Veil and Flux

The prediction markets platform Guesser announced that it has received $1. 1 million in seed round funding. The firm is a close competitor to Veil and Flux. The information was released by the company during a conversation with The Block.

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Bolt Labs Raises $1.5 Million Seed Round to Boost Lightning Privacy

With $1.5 million in seed funding secured, Bolt Labs wants to bring privacy features to the lightning network and other blockchain solutions.

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Blockchain Startup Horizen Labs Doubles Target to Raise $4 Million

Just-launched sidechains startup Horizen Labs has raised $4 million in a seed funding round – twice what it had initially planned.

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Horizen Labs Raises $4M In Seed Funding Led by Digital Currency Group

Horizen Labs, a blockchain tech company which builds DLT sidechain solutions, has just announced the completion of its seed funding round.   Led by Digital Currency Group (DCG) Liberty City Ventures, and independent investors, Horizen was able to raise over $4 million in capital, twice as much as the startup had hoped for.

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Blockchain Platform Horizon Labs Raises Twice The Amount In Seed Funding From Liberty City Ventures

Blockchain Platform Horizon Labs Raises Twice The Amount In Seed Funding From Liberty City Ventures The launch of Horizon labs is meant to make blockchain technology accessible to business. Now, the blockchain tech company has announced to received $4 million of seed funding which is twice the amount initially planned. The Sidechain-As-A-Service Platform At the […]

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Horizen Labs raises $4 million to build blockchain solutions for business

CryptoNinjas Horizen Labs, Inc. has launched as a blockchain development company that enables businesses to deploy proprietary blockchain solutions that are fast, secure, private, and scalable.

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Offchain Labs Raises $3.7M In Seed Capital

Offchain Labs, a DLT startup leveraging smart contracts to connect blockchains to enterprises, has just announced a successful round of funding lead by Pantera Capital. The firm raised approximately $3.

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Barack Obama’s Ex-Admin Official Secures $3.7 Million For Offchain Labs Blockchain SaaS Project

Former Obama Tech Officer Raises $3. 7 Million To Develop Smart Contract Scalability The startup that was co-founded by a former Obama administration official was able to raise $3. 7 million in seed funding.

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Crypto liquidity aggregator CoinDCX gets seed funding from Bain Capital Ventures

CryptoNinjas CoinDCX, an Estonia-domiciled global liquidity aggregator with R&D in Mumbai, India, announced it has raised a seed round of financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. Notable angels, including Sanjay Mehtaand Utsav Somani participated.

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Galaxy Digital Backs $5.25 Million Round for Blockchain Staking Startup

Blockchain staking startup Bison Trails has raised $5.25 million in a series seed funding round backed by investors including Galaxy Digital.

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Crypto Investment App Donut Raises $1.8 Million in Seed Funding

Crypto investment app startup Donut has raised $1.8 million in a seed funding round as the firm prepares to take its beta product live.

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Tokenized fund COSIMO X invests in GECKO Governance, Lingar, and Oneiro

CryptoNinjas COSIMO Ventures, a global venture capital (VC) firm, announced three late seed round investments through its evergreen, tokenized VC fund, COSIMO X. Funding will be provided to GECKO Governance, a blockchain-based financial software solution that allows fund managers to meet regulatory and compliance.

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StrongBlock Secures $4 Million from Pangea and Magnetic Capital for an Enterprise Blockchain Project Breakthrough

StrongBlock, a company that received funding from Magnetic Capital, was able to secure $4 million to work on a new blockchain enterprise solution. The information was released by the company in a recent press release.

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Kava Labs Secures $1.2 Million in New Funding to Develop Interledger Blockchain Solutions

Kava Labs recently announced that they have raised $1. 2 Million in funding led by Lemniscap and Digital Asset Capital Management, along with other investors including Xpring of Ripple, Coil Technologies, 2020 Ventures, Arrington Capital, Hard Yaka, Robot Ventures, UniValues Associates, and a number of private investors.

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Crypto data company Coin Metrics closes $1.9 million round of funding

Coin Metrics, a provider of crypto-asset market and network data, has announced the closing of a $1.9 million seed round of venture funding. Castle Island Ventures led the financing round, with participation from Fidelity Investments, Highland Capital... Source

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Pangea Blockchain Fund Raises $22 Million in Seed Funding Round

According to a press release published February 27, 2019, Pangea Blockchain Fund has successfully closed its seed round after raising $22 million. The firm debuted its maiden international fund which will be utilized to develop robust blockchain solutions.

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Crypto Bonds Pioneer Nivaura Completes Seed Round for Market Automation Project

On February 27, Bloomberg reported that Nivaura Ltd, which issued the first cryptocurrency bond, has completed the first round of funding for its’ investment market automation project. Who Are Nivaura Ltd? Nivaura Ltd is a British startup that aims to bring a digital revolution to the capital markets, with a significant focus on primary issuance.

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Institutional Digital Asset Wallet Startup Curv Emerges from Stealth; Raises US$6.5M

Curv, a digital asset wallet startup, has emerged from stealth and announced a US$6. 5 million seed funding round led by Team8 and Digital Currency Group, with participation from Flybridge Capital, Jump Capital, Monex Group and Liberty City Ventures.

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Fidelity Backs $1.9M Seed Round in Blockchain Analytics Startup Coin Metrics

CoinSpeaker Fidelity Backs $1. 9M Seed Round in Blockchain Analytics Startup Coin Metrics Being supported by Fidelity Investments, Coin Metrics, a cryptocurrency data provider, has managed to raise $1.

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Solidus Labs Secures $3 Million In Funding To Eliminate Cryptocurrency Market Manipulation

Solidus Labs Raise $3 Million In Seed Funding To Eliminate Cryptocurrency Market Manipulation. In a bid to make cryptocurrency price manipulation a thing of the past, Solidus Labs, a firm created by former Goldman Sachs fintech experts, focused on developing artificial intelligence (AI) powered trade surveillance solutions for crypto assets, has raised $3 million in […]

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Goldman Sachs Veterans Raise $3 Million to Fight Crypto Manipulation

A U.S.-based crypto market surveillance startup led by former Goldman Sachs fintech engineers has raised $3 million in seed funding.

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BitMEX Ventures Invests in Capital Markets Software Builder FinFabrik

FinFabrik, a Hong Kong-based fintech startup developing capital markets software, has raised an undisclosed amount in a seed funding round led by BitMEX Ventures, the investment arm of Seychelles-based HDR Global Trading Ltd.

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MasterCard, Ripple, Barclays Fund US XRP Remittance Firm in $1.7 Million Seed

Global remittance startup SendFriend has raised $1. 7 million in pre-seed funding by 13 participants. The US company announced Monday that it had received support from MIT Media Lab, Barclays, the Mastercard Foundation, Ripple, TechStars, Mahindra Finance, 2020 Ventures, and 8 Decimal Capital.

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Regtech Startup TRM Raises US$1.7M for Crypto Compliance Solutions

TRM Labs Inc. , a regtech startup based in San Francisco, has raised US$1. 7 million in a seed funding round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Tapas Capital, Green D Ventures, The MBA Fund, and strategic angel investors.

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Crypto Compliance Project TRM Labs Brings in $1.7 Million in Funding Led by Blockchain Capital

TRM Labs, a crypto compliance startup located in San Francisco, has recently been the benefactor of a seed round that brought in $1. 7 million. The funding was supported by venture capital firm, Blockchain Capital, and was announced by TRM Labs on Thursday.

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Realblocks Closes $3.1 Million Seed Round, Morgan Creek Digital among Backers

On January 25, 2019, blockchain-powered real estate tech platform RealBlocks announced the close of their $3. 1 million seed round. The funding round was led by Science, Inc. with support from Zelkova Ventures, Cross Culture Ventures, Morgan Creek Capital, and Ulu Ventures.

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Blockchain-Driven Real Estate Platform Closes Seed Funding Round Backed by Morgan Creek

A blockchain-based real estate platform has raised $3.1 million in a seed round backed by U.S. Science Inc., Morgan Creek Digital and others

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Mobile Bitcoin Wallet BRD Raises $15 Million, Plans for Expansion in Asia

Cryptocurrency mobile wallet provider BRD wants to accelerate its international expansion, and it has secured $15 million to do it. The Series B funding round was raised from SBI Crypto Investment, a subsidiary of Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings.

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Secure browser Tenta and French crypto asset company Coinhouse get funding from Consensys

CryptoNinjas Tenta, a browser designed for privacy and security, today announced it has raised an undisclosed seed round from Consensys Ventures, the venture capital arm of Consensys. Tenta develops a web browser.

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Blockchain Startup Monerium Raises US$2M Seed Round

Icelandic blockchain startup Monerium has closed a US$2 million seed funding round led by the Nordic VC fund and Crowberry Capital, with participation from New York-based blockchain software technology company, ConsenSys, and Hof Holdings.

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Cryptocurrency Startup Seeking SEC-Approval for Tokens Raises $12 Million in Seed Funding

Cryptocurrency project Prometheum raised $12 million in seed funding this week before the company gears up to offer a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)-approved security token to investors in early-2019, reported American Banker on December 21, 2018.

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Crypto Investment Platform Secures Seed Funding from Peter Thiel, Digital Currency Group

San Francisco-based crypto investment platform Layer1 completes seed funding round with investments from Peter Thiel and Digital Currency Group

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Peter Thiel Invests in a New ‘Proactive’ Cryptocurrency Investment Platform

The cryptocurrency investment and infrastructure platform Layer1 has successfully closed a $2. 1 million seed funding round. Investors who took part include PayPal’s co-founder Peter Thiel and Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group.

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PayPal’s Peter Thiel Gifts Layer1 a $2.1 Million Investment to Create ‘Category-Defining’ Crypto Company

PayPal co-founder and venture capital investor Peter Thiel just made a major investment in a cryptocurrency firm called Layer1. On Wednesday, the company revealed that it had received $2. 1 million in seed funding from Peter Thiel and other investors.

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Peter Thiel and Digital Currency Group make investment in crypto platform Layer1

CryptoNinjas Crypto investment and infrastructure platform Layer1 announced today the closing of $2. 1 million in seed funding backed by investors, including Peter Thiel, Digital Currency Group, Jeffrey Tarrant, and more.

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Cryptocurrency Security startup Trustology Receives Funding from Two Sigma Ventures

Trustology, a London-based startup focused on developing technology designed to help investors protect their digital assets has just received an $8 million seed fund from Two Sigma, as reported by Reuters on December 6, 2018.

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Ohio tech funds to pump over $100M into blockchain startups

Ohio is set to make another play in the blockchain and cryptocurrency game as tech accelerator funds look to pump millions of dollars into blockchain startups in the state. One such fund, JumpStart, is looking to invest $100 million into early-stage startups that are developing blockchain-based technologies.

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Every startup founder’s alternate realities: Business and fundraising

Pre-seed and seed, angels and VCs, A rounds and B rounds – it’s a tangled web for rookie entrepreneurs aiming to grow small startups. But unless you’re bootstrapping, you’ve got to keep your two feet in two different worlds every day: business and fundraising.

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ConsenSys Leads $2.1 Million Funding Round into Ethereum Hosted Protocol AZTEC

ConsenSys Labs, an Ethereum incubator owned by ConsenSys has led a $2. 1 million seed investment into AZTEC, a London-based protocol developer, according to its press release sent to CoinJournal. AZTEC is an Ethereum mainnet-hosted protocol that helps to facilitate private transactions on the public blockchain.

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ConsenSys Backs $2.1 Million Funding Round for Ethereum Privacy Startup

ConsenSys Labs has led a $2.1 million seed round for AZTEC, a startup working to make ethereum transactions private.

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Coinbase, DCG Join $4.5 Million Seed Round for Crypto Evaluation Startup

Coinbase Ventures, DCG and others have provided $4.5 million in funding for an analytics startup that wants investors to think beyond market cap.

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Security Token Offerings: A Reality Check To Manage Expectations

Exactly how much ICOs raised in 2018 is unclear, with estimates up to $22 billion – almost double what they did the previous year. During the summer of 2017, ICO financing even surpassed angel and seed funding for early stage technology companies, fueling a narrative of disruption regarding the future of venture capital.

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Singapore announces funding for blockchain innovation and adoption

The Singapore government continues to lend support to blockchain innovation in the country with more investments. Today, in a press release the Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA) of Singapore announced seed funding for companies to develop a comprehensive blockchain platform to connect all stakeholders from within and outside the industry.

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