Funding Rounds

Funding Rounds

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)

Finance

Mavryk Network Raises $10M for UAE Real-Estate Tokenization Plans

The strategic investment was led by MultiBank, Mavryk's partner in a project to tokenize over $10 billion worth of real estate in the UAE.

Dubai UAE (Pexels, Pixabay)

Finance

Etherealize Raises $40M to Bring Ethereum to Wall Street

The new capital builds on an earlier grant from Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation.

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Finance

Kite Raises $18M to Bridge Stablecoin Payments and Autonomous Agents

General Catalyst and PayPal Ventures co-led the Series A funding as Kite launches infrastructure to let AI agents transact at scale with on-chain settlement

16:9 Kites (Bill Fairs/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

A Bitcoin Startup Raised $50M to Allow Users to Trade With 'Bitcoin-Grade' Security

The raise brings Portal’s total funding to $92M as it pushes to make Bitcoin the anchor of tokenized and cross-chain markets.

16:0 Portal founders (Portal)

Finance

USD.AI Raises $13M to Expand GPU-Backed Stablecoin Lending

Framework Ventures leads Series A for GPU-collateralized stablecoin protocol USD.AI

16:9 USD.AI team (Permian Labs)

Finance

Bitcoin DeFi Project BOB Raises Another $9.5M to Build BTC DeFi Infrastructure

The investment bring BOB's ("Build on Bitcoin") total funds raised to $21 million, following previous raises in 2024

BOB team (BOB)

Finance

WLFI Invests $10M in Falcon Finance to Boost On-Chain Dollar Liquidity

The investment comes as Falcon Finance surpasses $1 billion in circulating supply following its public launch.

Close up of two dollar notes. (engin akyurt/Unsplash)

Finance

A16z Crypto Leads $15M Seed Round Into Decentralized AI Data Layer Poseidon

Poseidon was incubated by IP-based protocol Story, whose aim is to convert IP into programmable assets that can be licensed and managed using smart contracts

Statue of Poseidon (mike1550/Pixabay)

Finance

Coinbase Alum-Founded Turnkey Raises $30M Series B to Grow Engineering Team

The funding round was led by Bain Capital Crypto and included contributions from Lightspped Faction and Galaxy Ventures

Turnkey co-founders Jack Kearney and Bryce Ferguson (Turnkey)