Tag: Venture
Venture Capital Lightspeed Faction Starts $285M Fund for Blockchain Startups
Faction, a joint venture with a $25 billion asset-under-management VC firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, typically invests in seed-stage and Series A f [...]
Standard Chartered’s venture arm to set up crypto fund in UAE
SC Ventures, the fintech investment arm of the British bank Standard Chartered, will establish a Digital Asset Joint Venture investment company in the [...]
Crypto Venture Funds Variant, 1kx Lead $6M Funding Round for ZK-Meets-AI Startup Modulus
The round was led by Variant and 1kx, and includes participation from Inflection, Bankless, Stanford and others. Angel investors include names in the [...]
CoinShares’ crypto venture Komainu wins crypto registration in UK
Komainu, a cryptocurrency custody firm co-created by crypto investment firm CoinShares, hardware wallet company Ledger and Japanese Nomura, has secure [...]
SBI works with UAE’s TradeFinex to set up joint crypto venture in Japan
SBI Holding and TradeFinex will look to drive trade finance adoption of EVM-compatible enterprise blockchain XDC Network through a new joint venture i [...]
Blockchain Capital Raises $580M for 2 New Crypto Venture Capital Funds
Most of Blockchain Capital's limited partners are traditional institutional investors, including university endowments, private foundations, financial [...]
Venture capital exec says ‘lack of innovation’ drives funding away from crypto
Compared to 2022, where the first and second quarters of the year saw a combined $20.3 billion flow into the space through venture capital funding, 20 [...]
AI Is Killing Crypto Venture Capital Interest
Unlike mainstream AI which isn’t even a year old, crypto has been present for more than a decade. Thanks to the cyclical movement of the crypto econom [...]
Coinbase, Framework Venture Funds Invest $5M in Socket Protocol, in Bet on Blockchain Interoperability
The fundraise comes as interoperability protocols have attracted investors, despite the bear market.
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Crypto grants foster innovation amid venture capital exodus
As the bear market keeps slashing venture capital from the crypto industry, alternative funding options, such as grants, have been gaining traction as [...]
FC Barcelona secures $132 investment for blockchain and NFT venture
Spanish football club FC Barcelona has secured a €120 million ($132 million) investment from Libero Football Finance AG and Nipa Capital B.V. for its [...]
Multicoin Backer L1 Digital Raises $152M for Second Crypto Venture Capital Fund
L1D is registered with FINMA, Switzerland's independent financial markets regulator, and manages one alternative investment fund plus the now two vent [...]
Futureverse co-founders launch $50M venture fund
Shara Senderoff and Aaron McDonald, co-founders of AI and metaverse company Futurverse, have launched a new $50 million venture fund and studio.Accord [...]
$50M Web3, Metaverse Venture Fund Started by Futureverse Co-Founders Shara Senderoff, Aaron McDonald
The Born Ready fund will cut checks between $250,000 and $1 million per project, the team told Fortune in an interview. It has already deployed capita [...]
Bitcoin (BTC) Venture Capital Is Anything but Boring: Crypto Long & Short
The Segregated Witness soft-fork activated in 2017 was a technical prerequisite for the Lightning Network, which has in turn grown to a capacity that [...]