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SIMBA Chain Raises $25M to Boost Sales and Marketing Staff, Expand Into NFTs

The blockchain firm already has multiple U.S. military contracts.

Updated May 11, 2023, 7:05 p.m. Published Sep 2, 2021, 1:17 p.m.
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Blockchain-as-a-service firm SIMBA Chain has closed a $25 million Series A funding round led by Valley Capital Partners, the firm announced Thursday.

  • Indiana-based SIMBA Chain said it will use the money to expand its sales and marketing departments, as well as to “dedicate resources to emerging enterprise-level opportunities such as non-fungible tokens.”
  • Other participating investors included the Notre Dame Pit Road Fund, Elevate Ventures, Stanford Law School Venture Fund, the founders of Lightspeed Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates.
  • In January, SIMBA Chain announced it had been awarded a $1.5 million contract from the U.S. Office of Navy Research to build a blockchain system to help ensure a ready supply of weapons.
  • SIMBA’s technology is used by the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines, as well as by Boeing and other businesses, for a wide range of commercial applications.
  • The company said it expects academic institutions and more businesses to use its software to manage their digital and physical assets.

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  • GoPlus Intelligence's Token Security API averaged 717 million monthly calls year-to-date in 2025 , with a peak of nearly 1 billion calls in February 2025. Total blockchain-level requests, including transaction simulations, averaged an additional 350 million per month.
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  • Bhutan introduced TER, a sovereign-supported gold-backed token issued via Gelephu Mindfulness City and custodied by DK Bank, offering a blockchain-based representation of physical gold.
  • The token runs on Solana, giving international investors digital portability and on-chain transparency while mimicking the experience of traditional gold purchases.
  • TER follows Kyrgyzstan’s USDKG launch, highlighting a growing trend of smaller nations issuing asset-backed digital currencies tied to audited reserves as part of broader economic and technological strategies.