VC

Digital Asset Trader Auros to Invest Over $50M in Crypto Startups Through Its Newly Established VC Arm
Auros Ventures aims to make concentrated bets on crypto startups to help them scale with Auros being "power user," Auros co-founder and CIO Ben Roth said in an exclusive interview with CoinDesk.

Tether Buys $200M Majority Stake in Brain-Computer Interface Company Blackrock Neurotech
The investment will fund the roll-out and commercialization of the company's medical devices.

Galaxy Plans to Raise $100M for Crypto Venture Fund
Galaxy's prolific venture wing plans to start accepting – and investing – outside capital.

Institutional Crypto Wallet Provider Utila Raises $11.5M, Aims to Facilitate Tokenization Boom
Utila's self-custodial wallet offers a simplified user interface, fast onboarding process and recently added enhanced tokenization capabilities to better serve token issuers, co-founder and CEO Bentzi Rabi said in an interview.

Chris Dixon Talks Techno-Optimism, Permissionless Innovation and the Need for Crypto
The renowned a16z VC talks to Daniel Kuhn about his new book, “Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet.”

Digital Asset Brokerage Firm Nonco Raises $10M Seed Funding Led by Valor Capital, Hack VC
The firm says it has already seen $6 billion in volume in Americas since its debut in April.

Venture Capital Lightspeed Faction Starts $285M Fund for Blockchain Startups
The new fund will focus mainly on early-stage crypto projects, participating in seed-stage and Series A funding rounds.

Web3-Powered File Management App Raises $1.5M to Offer Alternative to Google
Fileverse offers a decentralized file management and collaboration service, an alternative to centralized providers such as Google or Notion.

Sino Global, Coinbase and Libra Alums Start $60 Million Web3 Fund
Oak Grove Ventures will focus on early-stage investments in Web3, artificial intelligence and biotechnology.

VC Firm CoinFund's Managing Partner Seeing 'Significant' Activity Around AI and Web3
Recent PitchBook data shows crypto companies worldwide raised $5 billion dollars in the first half of the year, down almost 75% from a year ago. CoinFund managing partner David Pakman shares insights into the state of crypto VC funding and what sectors are seeing a significant amount of activity.

