Hyperithm, a Tokyo-based digital asset management firm, raised $11 million in a Series B funding round that was co-led by South Korea's Hashed and Wemade Tree, a subsidiary of the gaming company behind the "Legend of Mir" series.
Other participating investors in the round included Coinbase Ventures, Cocone, GS Futures and the Guardian Fund, Hyperithm said in an email.
Founded in January 2018, Hyperithm operates in Tokyo and Seoul and specializes in automated trading and risk management through cryptographic algorithms.
The firm said it is seeing growth in the institutional market for digital assets in East Asia.
It serves institutional investors, publicly listed companies, family offices, venture capital companies, crypto exchanges and miners.
Previous investors have included South Korea's VIP Research & Management and the venture capital firms owned by South Korean internet companies Kakao and Naver.
Dan Roberts outlines IREN’s strategy to build a vertically integrated AI platform spanning power, data centers, GPUs and enterprise software.
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IREN co-founder, Dan Roberts, says owning power, land and data centers creates a long-term competitive moat as global AI demand accelerates.
Roberts said AI’s biggest constraint is increasingly physical infrastructure, with power, land and data center capacity becoming more valuable as global compute demand surges.