Funding Rounds

Funding Rounds

Finance

Mesh becomes unicorn, raises $75 million for crypto payments infrastructure

The investment round was led by Dragonfly Capital and included participation from Paradigm, Moderne Ventures, Coinbase Ventures and SBI Investment.

Mesh fence (Pexels/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

DAWN raises $13M to expand decentralized broadband networks

The decentralized wireless protocol plans U.S. expansion and new international deployments as investors back a user-owned alternative to legacy internet providers.

Dawn (춘성 강/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Donut Labs Raises $15M Seed Funding to Build AI-Powered Crypto Trading Browser

Donut Labs has now raised $22 million across a pre-seed and seed funding round in the last six months.

16:9 Donuts (congerdesign/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Polymarket Seeks Investment at Valuation of $12B-$15B: Bloomberg

That level would mark a more than 10-fold increase since June, when Polymarket raised $200 million at a $1 billion valuation.

Shayne Coplan, founder and CEO of Polymarket (CoinDesk/Jesse Hamilton)

Finance

Daylight Raises $75M to Build Decentralized Energy Network

The funding combines equity and project financing to connect DeFi capital with real-world electricity infrastructure

Electricity (Joe/Pixbay, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Block Street Raises $11.5M to Build ‘Execution Layer for On-Chain Stocks’

The funding round was led by Hack VC, with backing from Generative Venture, DWF Labs and others including executives from firms like Jane Street and Point72.

Seed Funding Investment coins in a jar (Towfiqu barbhuiya/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Coinflow Raises $25M to Scale Stablecoin Payments, Backed by Pantera and Coinbase

The company says it has grown revenue 23-fold since 2024 and now supports stablecoin-powered payments in over 170 countries.

Seed Funding Investment coins in a jar (Towfiqu barbhuiya/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Bee Maps Raises $32M to Scale Solana-Powered Decentralized Mapping Network

The fresh capital will be used to distribute more devices, enhance AI models that process and update map features, and boost contributor incentives, Bee said.

Bee device (Hivemapper)

Finance

Stablecoin Startup RedotPay Attains Unicorn Status With $47M Raise for Regulatory Push

The Hong Kong company is scaling stablecoin-powered cards, wallets and payout services with backing from Coinbase Ventures, Galaxy and Vertex.

An inflatable unicorn floating on water. (Vlad Vasnetsov/Pixabay)

Finance

Grvt Raises $19M to Bring Privacy and Scale to On-Chain Finance

ZKsync, Further Ventures, EigenCloud and 500 Global back privacy-driven DEX in push toward trillion-dollar on-chain finance

Scattered pile of $1 bills (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)