Funding Rounds


Finance

Aave-Developed Lens Protocol Raises $15M to Expand 'Social Layer' of Web3

Uniswap CEO Hayden Adams, OpenSea co-founder Alex Atallah, entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan and Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal joined the round as angel investors.

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Finance

Bitcoin-Denominated Life Insurance Provider Sets Up Shop With $19M Funding

Meanwhile's target audience is U.S. citizens with large BTC holdings, an audience from which it has "seen a lot of early demand."

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Finance

PayPal Ventures Leads $52M Round for Crypto Firm Magic

The startup offers non-custodial wallet infrastructure for an enterprise client list that includes Macy’s and Mattel.

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Finance

Crypto Infrastructure Firm Anoma Foundation Raises $25M

The Swiss non-profit oversees the Anoma blockchain architecture and the layer 1 blockchain Namada.

Brevan Howard Digital was among the backers for Puffer's $5.5 million round. (Pixabay)

Web3

Web3 Payments Firm Transak Raises $20M

The startup offers on- and off-ramps that could make it easier for new users to interact with Web3 projects.

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Finance

Sam Altman’s Crypto Project Worldcoin Raises $115M, Led by Blockchain Capital

Other investors in the Series C round included a16z, Bain Capital Crypto and Distributed Global.

Worldcoin co-founders Alex Blania and Sam Altman (Marc Olivier/Worldcoin)

Finance

Multicoin Leads $2.3M FastLane VC Deal, Continuing Its Bet on MEV Infrastructure

The crypto-focused investment firm has now backed three projects centered around maximal extractable value (MEV), a way for validators to earn extra money from traders.

Multicoin's Kyle Samani (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

LabDAO Raises $3.6M to Decentralize Drug Discovery

The project also launched its new PLEX client that eases the burden of resource-intensive computations for scientific data.

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Finance

ZK Startup Lagrange Labs Raises $4M to Build Secure DeFi Interoperability

The round was led by investment firm 1kx and included contributions from Maven11, Lattice Fund, CMT Digital, Daedalus Angels

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Web3

Airstack Raises Over $7M for AI-Backed Web3 Developer Platform

The pre-seed funding extension was led by Superscrypt; Polygon was a prior investor.

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