Funding Rounds


Finance

Solana-Based DEX Orca Raises $18M Series A Funding

Orca will use the fresh funding injection to continue developing its automated market maker (AMM).

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Finance

Blockchain Infrastructure Firm Blockdaemon Nabs $1.3B Valuation in $155M Funding Round

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the funding, which also included Matrix Capital Management, Sapphire Ventures and Morgan Creek Digital.

Blockdaemon founder Konstantin Richter (Blockdaemon)

Finance

Get Ready for Investor Fan Tokens: Polychain Backs Prysm’s Approach to ‘Social Investing’

The platform aims to let new traders follow “the best investors in DeFi.”

Prysm founders Thomas Scaria (left) and Shelby Thomas (Prysm)

Finance

Blockchain Monitoring Dashboard Raises $14M From Neotribe, Coinbase Ventures

The funds will be used to expand Metrika’s platform and broaden its customer base.

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Finance

London-Based Open Banking Startup TrueLayer Raises $130M Led by Tiger Global, Stripe

The fundraise sees TrueLayer’s valuation surpass $1 billion, thus giving it “unicorn” status.

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Finance

Latin American Crypto Firm Ripio Raises $50M to Accelerate Regional Expansion

The company plans to open operations in Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay later this year.

Sebastian Serrano, fundador y CEO de Ripio. (Archivo de CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto App Abra Raises $55M to Develop High-Net-Worth, Institutional Offerings

The Series C was led by previous backers Ignia and Blockchain Capital, with Kingsway Capital and Tiga Investments listed among new investors.

Abra CEO Bill Barhydt (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Immutable Raises $60M in Funding to Boost NFT Trading

The Ethereum Layer-2 protocol says it has created the underlying infrastructure for any business to build a game, marketplace or NFT application.

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Finance

Zero-Knowledge Credit Risk Platform X-Margin Raises $8M

Coinbase Ventures, HashKey Capital and Spartan Group participated in the Series A funding round.

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Finance

Cere Network Raises $31M in Funding Round Led by Republic, Polygon

Funding will be used for new hires, developer network growth and app development.

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