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Finance

Crypto Risk Monitoring Firm Solidus Labs Raises $45M

Liberty City Ventures led the round for the market surveillance and risk monitoring startup, which has several ex-regulators as backers or advisors.

Solidus Labs CTO Praveen Kumar (left), COO Chen Arad (top) and CEO Asaf Meir (right).

Finance

6th Man Ventures Raises $145M for Crypto Fund: Report

It’s the second fund for the venture capital firm led by The Block founder Mike Dudas.

A venture capitalist and an entrepreneur talk business. (Maskot/Getty images)

Finance

Startup cripto Belo levanta $3 millones en ronda seed para expandirse a Brasil y México

La compañía argentina también planea lanzar servicios para empresas en el segundo trimestre de 2022.

Belo planea en 2022 duplicar su equipo, actualmente de 30 personas. (Belo)

Finance

Chainalysis Raises $170M at $8.6B Valuation

The crypto sleuthing firm says its tools monitor $1 trillion worth of transactions every month.

Chainalysis co-founder Jonathan Levin. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Coinbase Ventures Backs Moralis' $40M Funding Round

The firm provides a development platform for building and launching Web 3 games, apps and NFTs.

Moralis co-founders Filip Martinsson and Ivan Liljeqvist (Moralis)

Finance

Katie Haun’s VC Firm Leads $11M Round for Web 3 Community Platform Highlight

Highlight offers a no-code toolkit for creators to easily build NFT-based Web 3 communities.

Venture capitalist Katie Haun appears on stage at the 2022 FTX/SALT Crypto Bahamas conference. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Paradigm Enters Africa With $30M Round for ‘Super App’ Jambo

The Congo-based startup is building a platform for Web 3 user acquisition.

Africa holds great potential in the ongoing evolution of cryptocurrency technology. (Moussa Kalapo/Getty Images)

Finance

SPiCE VC Launches $250M Blockchain Fund Targeting Institutional Investors

The firm previously raised $50 million for a tokenized fund focused on financial verticals, but its second fund will invest more broadly.

Venture chief Tal Elyashiv thinks his tokenized VC fund can find a foothold on Asian exchanges. (SPiCE)

Finance

‘Tamagotchi on Crack’: Irreverent Labs Raises $40M for NFT Cockfighting Game

Investors are backing a gaming studio whose “MechaFightClub” title is predicated on 6,969 robot chicken NFTs, according to government filings.

(Al Bello/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)