Sequoia Capital has been invested in crypto since 2015, but the VC firm recently raised the stakes by announcing its first sector-specific fund: a $500 million Sequoia Crypto Fund focused on liquid to...
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VC Heavyweight Sequoia Names Roelof Botha As New Global Leader
Roelof Botha, Sequoia’s new global leader, says “I really care passionately now about turning my attention to helping this partnership be positioned for the future.” Sequoia Sequoia ...
Sequoia Capital, FTX Ventures And A16z Lead The $135 Million Financing Deal For LayerZero Technologies
LayerZero enables a future of borderless blockchains. Omnichain dApps, which exist on various blockchains, will be used by users. These dApps will communicate over LayerZero without the user being awa...
LayerZero Raises $135M From Andreessen, FTX, Sequoia to Build Out ‘Omnichain’ Protocol
In brief LayerZero Labs is building an “omnichain interoperability protocol that unites” decentralized applications from across blockchains. It’s pulled in major funding from some of...
LayerZero Secures $135M Funding From A16z, FTX, Sequoia Capital
The blockchain interoperability protocol, LayerZero, has announced raising $135 million at a $1 billion valuation. The funds will be used to advance further the development of cross-chain decentralize...
Sequoia Investors And FTX Raise $135 Million In Series A Funding
The multi-chain future, where users of blockchain technology no longer have to choose only one platform, is approaching rapidly. LayerZero, an omnichain interoperability protocol, has completed a Seri...
LayerZero raises $135 million from Sequoia Capital, a16z and FTX Ventures
Interoperability protocol LayerZero raised $135 million in a Series A+ round led by Sequoia Capital, a16z and FTX Ventures. The Canada-based company was valued at $1 billion, according to Forbes. “We ...
How LayerZero Raised $135M From Sequoia, FTX And A16z
Per a Forbes report, LayerZero Labs recently completed a series A+ investment round. The company managed to attract the attention of major players in the crypto industry. Related Reading | Mobile Bank...
Sequoia leads $80 million funding round for Swiss start-up Yokoy
Sequoia Capital is betting the next European tech giant will emerge in Switzerland. The Silicon Valley venture capital firm told CNBC that it led an $80 million funding round for Yokoy, a platform tha...
China’s Trip.com Posts $131 Mln Loss In 4th Quarter As Pandemic Drags On
Workers control access into a closed off community on Sunday, March 13, 2022, in Beijing. New … [+] coronavirus cases have created a drag on the country’s travel industry. (AP Photo/Ng Han...
Solana NFT Marketplace “Magic Eden” Plans To Raise $27 Million From Sequoia Capital
NFT marketplace Magic Eden is planning to announce a $27 million fundraising round on Monday, involving Sequoia Capital and other investors. Magic Eden uses the Solana blockchain to authenticate NFTs ...
Sequoia Capital Bets Big on Solana-Based NFT Marketplace Magic Eden: Report
Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Sequoia is betting big on the leading Solana NFT marketplace – Market Eden. OpenSea happens to be the leader in the NFT space, however, its dominance appears to be...
All three units of Sequoia join EthSign’s $12M round in first such deal
Web3 infrastructure startup EthSign has raised $12 million in a seed funding round and all three units of the Sequoia VC — Sequoia Capital, Sequoia Capital India and Sequoia Capital China — have backe...
Chinese Self-Driving Truck Startup Secures $188 Million In Funding From Sequoia China And Legend Capital
Inceptio’s autonomous driving heavy-duty trucks. Courtesy of Inceptio Autonomous driving truck startup Inceptio Technology has raised a $188 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital China an...
Top Tech Investment Firm Sequoia Capital Launches $600,000,000 Crypto Fund
Venture capital giant Sequoia Capital is starting a new crypto fund to support digital assets with hundreds of millions of dollars. In a new article penned by top executives, the tech investment firm ...
Sequoia Capital Announces $500M-$600M Crypto Fund
Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital has announced that it is looking to raise around $500-600 million crypto fund to invest exclusively in the crypto space. Restructured Sequoia Launches Crypto Sub-F...
Sequoia Capital Raises $600 Million to Invest in Crypto
One of the oldest and most influential venture capital firms – Sequoia – has become even more active in the cryptocurrency space. In the latest development, it announced a new sub-fund of $500-$600M t...
Sequoia Capital Creating $500 Million Crypto Fund for Token Investment
Last October, Sequoia Capital announced intentions to deconstruct the traditional venture capital model by forming a single fund to handle all of its U.S. and European assets (including publicly-trade...
Investing in tokens with a $500m crypto fund by Sequoia Capital
Crypto fund worth $500m and upwards to be launched by Sequoia Capital It will actively manage tokens and provide liquidity to institutions Liquid tokens will be used to invest via crypto exchanges ...
Sequoia Capital Invests over $500M to Participate in Crypto Governance
California-based venture capital firm, Sequoia Capital, is doubling down on its bullish stance in the digital currency ecosystem with the launch of a $500 to $600 million investment dubbed the Sequoia...
Sequoia Capital Unveils a $500–600 Million Crypto Fund to Invest in Digital Assets
Sequoia Capital, a major US venture capital firm based in California, has announced today that it has launched a cryptocurrency-focused fund that will enable it to focus on investing in crypto tokens ...
Sequoia Capital Designates $500-600 Million to Crypto Fund Focused on Liquid Digital Assets – Finance Bitcoin News
On February 17, the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital announced the launch of a new $500 million to $600 million sub-fund dedicated to “liquid tokens and digital assets.” The company noted during i...
Sequoia launches $500 million crypto fund
TL;DR Breakdown • Private investment company joins its competitors in the crypto market.• Sequoia seems more interested in new cryptos than those that top the virtual market list. After coming off a h...
Leading Venture Capital Firm Sequoia Capital Launches $500 million Crypto Fund
Crypto adoption is sweeping across traditional financial institutions. Sequoia Capital has launched a new investment fund focused on crypto tokens, according to a report. The over 50 years old venture...
Sequoia Commits to Crypto Boom With $600M Fund
Key Takeaways Sequoia Capital has announced a crypto-dedicated fund that will invest as much as $600 million in digital assets. The fund will actively manage its assets, generating yield though token ...
Sequoia Capital Is Looking to Invest Up to $600 Million in Crypto Startup Tokens
Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital has launched a new fund to invest exclusively in cryptocurrency—with up to $600 million to play with. Sequoia Capital announced Thursday that the f...
Sequoia Launches $500 Million Fund To Invest In Crypto Tokens As Silicon Valley Throws Billions At Blockchain
Topline Fresh off a record year for crypto funding deals, storied venture capital firm Sequoia Capital announced Thursday it has launched a crypto-focused fund with between $500 million and $600 milli...
Sequoia Capital launching $500-600 million crypto fund to invest in tokens
Sequoia Capital, one of the world’s oldest and most successful venture capital firms, is launching a new crypto-focused fund — its first-ever sector-specific fund since its founding in 1972. The...
Crypto Weekly Roundup: Bitfinex Hackers Arrested, Russia To Legalize Crypto, Binance Invests In Forbes, Sequoia Invests In Polygon, And More
It has been an exciting week in crypto. A comedy-rapper and her husband have been arrested in New York over money laundering charges in connection to the 2016 Bitfinex hack, where around 120,000 BTCs ...
Sequoia Leads Polygon’s $450M Funding Round
In its latest venture financing round, the Ethereum scaling platform, Polygon has raised a total of $450 million, with a market cap of around $13 billion. Institutional Investors Come On Board This w...
Polygon Raises $450M from Venture Capital Firms Led by Sequoia
Ethereum-based Layer-2 protocol, Polygon, has raised $450 million in a private token sale that marks the most significant funding round for the firm which was founded in 2017. Polygon occupies a very...