London-Based VC Blossom Capital Raises $432 Million For New Crypto-Focused Fund

Alex Lim, Ophelia Brown and Imran Ghory have raised $432 million for a new fund to invest in early-stage European tech startups. www.annak-photo.com One of Europe’s few female-led venture capital fund...

Blossom Capital to support crypto-powered firms with $432 third fund

The funds from the Venture Capital firm, Blossom Capital, would be headed to European startups, the majority of which will be crypto-powered firms. They have NFTs but won’t disclose what, the Managing...

Crypto VC Firm Inflection Launches $40M Fund to Build ‘Open Economy’

Limited partner investors in the Mercury Fund include Galaxy Digital, Digital Currency Group (CoinDesk’s parent company), Accolade Partners, Evanston Capital, Isomer, Hutt Capital, Multiple Capital, P...

Ethereum NFT Badge App POAP Raises $10M to Fund Development

Event badge app POAP announced today that it has raised $10 million in new seed funding. “We intend for this raise to be the first along the road to our building a better POAP,” wrote POAP Chief Opera...

Pantera’s new venture fund sees $1 billion in total commitments

Pantera, a crypto investment firm, is preparing to raise more than $1 billion for a new venture fund, according to an email distributed on Tuesday. The firm — which has backed crypto projects and comp...

Phala Network Joins the Blender Developer Fund to Accelerate Metaverse 3D Modeling and Rendering

Seattle, WA, 18th January, 2022, Chainwire Phala Network today announced that it has joined the Blender Developer Fund as a Corporate Gold Member. Participating alongside companies including Intel, Mi...

Blossom Capital’s Newly Launched $432 Million Fund to Focus on Crypto Startups – Finance Bitcoin News

Blossom Capital, the London-based venture capital firm founded by Candice Lo, Imran Ghory, Mike Hudack, and Ophelia Brown plans to dedicate more funds to the growing cryptocurrency ecosystem. On Janua...

Sumotex Is the First Investment Fund to Convert Prime Real Estate Into NFTs on IoTeX

NFTs are taking the world by storm for all the right reasons. For what’s there, the scene is growing at a faster-than-anticipated rate, exceeding expectations. The uptake of NFTs and the acceptance of...

Blossom Capital targets crypto tokens with new $432 million fund

London-based venture capital firm Blossom Capital, founded in 2017 as a generalist investor, is now planning to plough considerably more money into the cryptocurrency market. Blossom has this morning ...

Crypto.com Capital Expands $200M Fund to $500M

Singapore-based Crypto.com Capital announced today that it is expanding the size of its fund to $500 million, from the $200 million it announced in March 2021. Jon Russell, its newly hired General Par...

This Odey Fund Explains How Shorts Can Indirectly Boost Absolute Returns

Odey’s LF Brook Absolute Return Fund had a challenging fourth quarter with a return of -4.6%, although its full-year return for 2021 was 9.9%. On the other hand, the MSCI World Index gained 22.9...

China’s $1 Trillion Wealth Fund Loses Quant Trading Team Leader

(Bloomberg) — The team leader for quantitative stocks trading at China’s $1.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund has resigned, joining a growing list of departures among the firm’s investing profess...

First-time home buyers are selling crypto to fund down payments — here’s what to know before you do it

Many Americans are using their tendies to tap into the American Dream — and the trend doesn’t show signs of stopping. Nearly 12% of first-time buyers indicated that selling cryptocurrency holdings con...

ICON Foundation to launch a $200M fund to boost interoperability

The ICON Foundation has announced it will be setting aside an incentive fund valued at 200 ICX tokens. The fund is currently valued at around $200 million at the time of writing, and it is aimed at bo...

Crypto.com’s venture fund hires former tech journalist Jon Russell

advertisement Crypto.com Capital has named former TechCrunch journalist Jon Russell as its newest partner, according to an announcement. The $200 million venture capital fund, launched by Crypto.com i...

Crypto.com Capital Hires Jon Russell as LP, Hints at Expanding Fund Size

Crypto.com Capital announced Monday that it is expanding its $200 million Web 3 fund, and it has appointed Jon Russell, a former technology journalist based in Bangkok where he wrote for Tech Crunch a...

FTX Launches $2B Venture Fund to Invest in Crypto Startups

Cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX announced it has launched a $2 billion venture fund unit in a bid to invest in crypto startups. Following the announcement, the venture unit will be headed by Amy ...

Big Investor Tripled Its AMC Stake and Bought Apple, NIO, and Nikola Stock

Text size DNB Asset Management materially raised investments in some of the most volatile stocks, including AMC Entertainment, Apple, NIO, and Nikola. Ethan Miller/Getty Images A large European asset ...

FTX Hires Lightspeed’s Amy Wu to Lead New $2 Billion Crypto Fund

(Bloomberg) — Most Read from Bloomberg Amy Wu has left Lightspeed Venture Partners for crypto-exchange FTX, where she will lead a newly launched $2 billion venture capital fund. The fund, known ...

Crypto Weekly Roundup: Dorsey’s New BTC Defense Fund, Ripple’s Big Win, Kim K Lawsuit, And More

The crypto market has had an extremely eventful week, involving a lawsuit against celebrities for promoting an alleged “pump and dump” scam, Rio De Janeiro’s mayor endorsing BTC, Jack Dorsey, setting ...

FTX Announces Launch Of $2 Billion Venture Fund

The FTX crypto exchange has announced the launch of FTX Ventures, its new venture capital fund. The $2 billion venture fund will back different Web3 teams that are creating projects in software, gamin...

Roaring U.S. housing market may cool, keep climbing as Fed ends emergency support

U.S. home prices roared almost 20% higher in the past year, giving families who own properties a major boost to their finances during the pandemic. But Wall Street, a key source of home mortgage finan...

Binance CEO’s net worth hits $96B, Jack Dorsey launches BTC defense fund, Bill Miller apes into Bitcoin: Hodler’s Digest, Jan 9-15

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, pr...

FTX launches $2 billion Ventures fund, hires former Lightspeed Partner

FTX poaches Lightspeed Partner Executive Amy Wu to lead FTX Ventures FTX aims to advance global blockchain The $2B Fund will invest in multi-stage companies and projects FTX Trading Limited (“FTX”), t...

Crypto Exchange FTX Rolls Out $2,000,000,000 Venture Fund

Crypto exchange FTX is launching a $2 billion venture fund to support crypto and Web3 projects. The move was announced in a blog post penned by FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, Ramnik Arora, the exchange’s ...

University accepts Bitcoin donations to fund crypto-related activities

Back in October 2021, The Campanile Foundation (TCF), an auxiliary of the San Diego State University (SDSU), accepted its first crypto donation. Now, the university announced that it is welcoming digi...

Crypto exchange FTX launches a $2 billion venture capital fund

Crypto exchange FTX recently announced the launch of a $2 billion venture capital fund–FTX Ventures. According to the official announcement made by the crypto exchange, FTX hired a former partner at L...

Torus Kling to launch its first Ether and BTC exchange fund in India

TL;DR Breakdown • The company submitted an ETF application to Indian regulators.• Torus Kling sees a future in Ethereum-traded funds. Recently the company Torus Kling, born from the partnership betwee...

FTX Launches $2 Billion Venture Capital Fund Focused on Bolstering Blockchain, Web3 Adoption – Finance Bitcoin News

The cryptocurrency firm FTX has announced the launch of a $2 billion venture capital fund called FTX Ventures. The fund’s focus will be on advancing blockchain and Web3 technology alongside investment...

FTX Launches $2B Venture Fund

Key Takeaways Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX crypto exchange announced today the launch of its venture capital fund, FTX Ventures. FTX Ventures will launch with $2 billion in assets under management and will...

ICON commits $200M to interoperability incentive fund

The ICON Foundation announced plans to launch an interoperability incentive program for 200 million ICX, or approximately $200 million at the time of publication. The foundation supports the developme...

FTX Launches $2 Billion VC Fund to Invest in Crypto Startups

On January 14, FTX, a popular Bahamian-based    cryptocurrency exchange  Cryptocurrency Exchange A cryptocurrency exchange is an online platform that supports the exchange of various currencies for a ...