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Finance

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.

Julien Auchecorne, the newly appointed head of Auros Ventures (Auros)

Finance

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.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Tether)

Finance

Galaxy Plans to Raise $100M for Crypto Venture Fund

Galaxy's prolific venture wing plans to start accepting – and investing – outside capital.

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

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.

Utila team (Utila)

Opinion

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.”

(Chris Dixon, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

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.

Fernando Martinez, CEO of Nonco. (Nonco)

Tech

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.

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Finance

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.

(Fileverse)

Markets

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.

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Videos

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.

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