Non-fungible token (NFT) platform Zora raised $50 million in a seed funding round to expand its services to customers. The investment was led by prominent venture capital firms such as Haun Ventures, ...
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New Zealand VC Launches $5 Million Web3 and Crypto-Focused Fund – Finance Bitcoin News
New Zealand-based venture capital firm Global From Day 1 (GD1) recently said it had launched a $5 million Web3 and crypto-focused venture capital fund to back local startups. The fund will invest in p...
Hedge Fund Marshall Wace Forms Workforce, Focusing on Blockchain Investments
Investment firm Marshall Wace is forming a blockchain team to focus on investing in private blockchain-related companies. The company has also hired William Benattar, who has made technology investmen...
Ryan Carson’s NFT fund 121G sees $40 million in commitments
The 1.21 Gigawatts Fund (121G), which was launched last week by serial entrepreneur Ryan Carson to buy non-fungible tokens (NFTs), said it has received commitments worth $40 million from investors. 12...
ETH Founder Buterin’s $100 Mln Shiba Inu Fund Backs Anti-COVID Efforts
In May 2021, Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin donated over $1.5 billion in cryptocurrencies to help India in the fight against Covid-19. The grant included around 50 trillion Shiba Inu (SHIB)...
Crypto Hedge Fund Pangea Fund Receives $85m in Financing
Cryptocurrency hedge Fund Pangea Fund has raised $85 million to focus on a “long-only” strategy. Pangea Fund Management was founded by Ryan Watkins, a former analyst at Messari Inc., and ...
‘My aim is to have a net worth of at least $100,000’: I’m 29 and live with my mom in a rented mobile home. I have a $25K emergency fund and $26K in a Roth IRA. What do I save for next?
I am doing OK financially as a single 29-year-old who unfortunately is still roommates with my mom. We split everything down the middle and I mainly stay with her since it is very expensive to live on...
Venture Capitalist John Doerr Gives $1.1 Billion To Stanford To Fund Climate Research
Topline Billionaire Silicon Valley investor John Doerr is donating $1.1 billion to Stanford University, a record gift for the university that will be used to establish a sustainability school and furt...
Stratis To Fund Blockchain Innovation Center in Uganda
May 4, 2022 – London, United Kingdom Partnership with King Oyo Foundation to develop use cases built on Stratis blockchain technologies. Investment marks the beginning of Stratis Africa. Stratis has e...
Stratis to fund blockchain innovation centre in Uganda
London, UK, 4th May, 2022, Chainwire Partnership with King Oyo Foundation to develop use cases built on Stratis blockchain technologies Investment marks the beginning of Stratis Africa Stratis has en...
Pawtocol Permits Crypto Donations for New Pet Fund
Pawtocol – a blockchain platform designed to improve the lives of both pets and their owners – announced the establishment of what’s known as Pawtocol Pet Fund, the first blockchain-powered fund built...
Privacy startup Nym brings in outside backers for $300 million developer fund
Nym Technologies, a Swiss privacy startup that shields online activity from surveillance using a mixnet, today unveiled a new $300 million fund to entice developers to its ecosystem. The Nym Innovatio...
NYM Token Skyrockets By 30% On $300 Mln Fund
The NYM Technologies’ latest announcement has sent the NYM token to the moon. Harry Halpin, CEO of NYM, revealed that they have raised $300 million in funding to develop mixnets. The Nym token’s price...
Mind Fund Incubates Metraverse for Breakthrough
Metraverse Pte. Ltd, the company, formerly known as Coinerz Group, would like to officially announce the birth of a new open Metaverse that has been created with the support of MIND FUND’S “Breakthrou...
Citadel’s flagship hedge fund rallies 7% in April, brings 2022 returns to nearly 13%
Ken Griffin, Founder and CEO, Citadel Mike Blake | Reuters Billionaire investor Ken Griffin’s hedge fund wowed the industry with big outperformance in April, overcoming a brutal market rout and ...
NBA Player Launches A $50M Fund And Brings His A-Game To The Entrepreneurial Arena
“Champions,” said Muhamad Ali, “aren’t made in the gym. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision.” A legendary athlete like Ali probably r...
Fund Manager VanEck To Launch NFT Collection
Fund manager VanEck on Monday said it will launch a its own NFT collection centered around its crypto community. The firm said the collection intends to showcase the real-world utility of NFTs. The fu...
Elon Musk To Sell Shares To Fund Twitter ; Will His Crypto Holdings Be Affected?
Tesla’s shares fell 5.56% on Tuesday as rumors emerged that Musk would be selling off some of his extensive holdings of the company’s shares to help fund his Twitter purchase, per data from the Lead L...
TRON Defines the Spend for Its $1,111,111,111 Ecosystem Fund – crypto.news
Geneva, Switzerland / April 28 / – TRON has announced the allocation for the $1,111,111,111 ecosystem fund they revealed in November 2021. The fund was established to foster the growth and development...
US DOJ Indicts Block Bits Fund Founder In a $960,000 Crypto Ponzi Scheme
Block Bits Fund Founder 44-year-old Japheth Dillman is charged by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) for deceiving investors into committing a false arbitrage Autotrader of a total of $960,...
Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Moves to Dubai as Crypto-Friendly Ecosystem Grows
Three Arrows Capital, a crypto hedge fund, moves its head office from Singapore to Dubai as the United Arab Emirates opens its doors to crypto firms. As the UAE continues to market itself as a crypto-...
Top Value and Huobi Launch a Blockchain Mining Fund
ChainUp Group’s subsidiary Top Value, is pleased to announce a partnership with Huobi Technology Holdings Limited (Stock code: 1611.HK)’s wholly-owned subsidiary Huobi Asset Management (Hong Kong). To...
FTX Announces $1 Billion Charity Fund and First Print Ad Campaign Starring Gisele Bundchen
As more exchanges look for ways to leverage the growing mainstream popularity of cryptocurrency, FTX, one of the largest digital asset trading platforms, is looking for ways to clean up the environmen...
Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Pantera Capital Lead $20M Round for Ondo Finance
Ondo Finance, which describes itself as a “permissionless, decentralized investment bank,” has raised $20 million in Series A funding to hire more staff and continue building DeFi offerings for DAOs a...
Bitcoin Has Reached ‘Escape Velocity’ Based on One Metric, Says Hedge Fund CEO Anthony Scaramucci
Global investment firm SkyBridge Capital founder and CEO Anthony Scaramucci is expressing bullish sentiment on Bitcoin (BTC). In a CNBC interview, Scaramucci says that the flagship cryptocurrency has ...
TRON Defines the Spend for its $1,111,111,111 Ecosystem Fund
Geneva, Switzerland / April 28 / – TRON has announced the allocation for the $1,111,111,111 ecosystem fund they revealed in November 2021. The fund was established to foster the growth and development...
World’s Largest Asset Manager BlackRock Launches New Crypto-Focused Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)
Investment management behemoth BlackRock is launching a new crypto-focused exchange-traded fund (ETF) that aims to track cutting-edge blockchain firms. According to a recent company announcement, the ...
Former Coinbase Engineer Donates $1M to Fund Bitcoin Development
Brink, an independent non-profit organization, has received $1 million from a former Coinbase engineer, Craig Hammell, to support Bitcoin development. Announcing the donation in a tweet, Brink noted t...
Cathie Wood’s Ark Fund Plunges To Two-Year Low As Teladoc Stock Crashes, Tesla Slips Again
Topline New York City-based Ark Invest’s flagship fund posted staggering losses Thursday as top holdings like Tesla, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and virtual healthcare firm Teladoc slumped ...
Opinion: Once richly valued, ‘unicorn’ startups are being gored and investors and funders have stopped believing
When Homer Simpson was asked, “How are we going to get out of this hole?,” he replied, “We’ll dig our way out!” Many people who find themselves in holes they can’t climb out of think that the solution...