Cohen’s new crypto-focused entity, which is still in its early innings, is dubbed “On-Chain Investments” The endeavor builds on his widespread venture capital-style, having backed crypto startups pers...
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SkyNano Startup To Convert CO2 Into Solid Carbon: Part 1
The smoke stacks at American Electric Power’s (AEP) Mountaineer coal power plant in New Haven, West … [+] Virginia. AFP via Getty Images A lot of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will still ...
EQBR Launches its US-based NFT Startup for Enterprise and Consumer
[PRESS RELEASE – Singapore-August 13, 2022] EQBR Holdings (EQBR), a pioneer of Web 3.0 infrastructure providers, announced the launch of its new US-based NFT service company, My Flex, Inc. which will ...
EQBR Announces the Launch of My Flex, Its US-based NFT Startup for Enterprise and Consumer
Place/Date: Singapore – August 15th, 2022 at 9:27 am UTC · 2 min read Contact: Michael M. Lee, Source: EQBR EQBR Holdings (EQBR), a pioneer of Web 3.0 infrastructure providers, announced the lau...
US Venture Capital Firm Leads New Investment in Nigerian Startup Teamapt – Fintech Bitcoin News
The United States-based venture capital (VC) firm, QED Investors, recently led an investment round that raised more than $50 million for the Nigerian fintech Teamapt. The investment, as well as the VC...
Payment Startup Strike Launches Visa Card to Give Real World Returns
While Strike may be the latest blockchain-based startup with a collaboration to offer crypto rewards through a Visa card, it is certainly not the first to trail this path. Strike, a digital currency-b...
DeFi wallet startup Unstoppable Finance raises €12.5 million
Unstoppable Finance, a Berlin-based startup, secured a €12.5 million ($12.8 million) round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to launch a non-custodial crypto wallet. Other investors in the Series A r...
DeFi Wallet Startup Unstoppable Finance Secures $12.8M in Series A Round
Although the company chose not to disclose its valuation, the founder revealed that it’s significantly higher than at the time when the firm closed its seed round in October of last year. Unstoppable ...
As DeFi Hacks Soar, This Startup Wants To Rad…
Over the past couple of years, hundreds of new decentralized finance applications and protocols have flooded onto the Ethereum network and other blockchains. In November 2021, the total value locked i...
Blockchain Startup Injective Nets $40M Round Featuring Jump, BH Digital
Injective Labs says it will use the funds to boost liquidity across its network’s DeFi apps Aperture, a popular app on Terra, is migrating its operations to Injective Blockchain startup Injective Labs...
SEC Orders Crypto Startup to Register ICO Tokens or Face $31M Fine
Bloom Protocol ran an initial coin offering (ICO) at the height of 2018’s bull market Regulators demand Bloom register its tokens as securities within nine months Crypto startup Bloom Protocol has bee...
Vet Startup Modern Animal In A Growth Spurt With New Funding
Modern Animal’s newest clinic, in the NoPa neighborhood in San Francisco. Modern Animal Modern Animal, one of a growing number of startups aiming to reinvent the veterinary clinic experience for...
Former Coinbase employee raises $4.5 million for his web3 data startup Coherent: Exclusive
Coherent, a blockchain data startup founded by former Coinbase employee Carl Cortright, has raised $4.5 million in a seed funding round. The round was co-led by Kindred Ventures, Matchstick Ventures a...
Crypto startup Nomad offers 10% bounty after $190 million hack
Over $2 billion has been stolen from cross-chain bridges so far this year, according to crypto analysis firm Chainalysis Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto via Getty Images Crypto company Nomad said it’s...
Blockchain Startup Hopes to Disrupt Short-term Rental Market
The blockchain-powered platform claims it’s roughly 15% cheaper than centralized alternatives Although these kinds of platforms have so far been unsuccessful, Dtravel’s head of growth believes that ti...
Fintech Firm Galoy Raises $4 Million, Startup Introduces Bitcoin-Backed Synthetic Dollar Product – Bitcoin News
On Wednesday, Galoy, the firm behind El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach Wallet, announced that the company raised $4 million in funding in an investment round led by Hivemind Ventures. On the same day, the s...
Cross-blockchain bridges keep breaking as crypto startup Nomad hacked for $190M
Nomad lost $190 million in a hack of its cross-blockchain bridge on Monday. Its team says it’s working with law enforcement, has hired blockchain intelligence and forensics experts, and aims to recove...
Hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen exits crypto startup Radkl amid bear market: Report
Steve Cohen, the founder of hedge fund Point72 Asset Management, has reportedly exited his investment in crypto trading firm Radkl. According to a Tuesday report from Bloomberg citing a Radkl spokespe...
Paystand Acquires Accounts Payable Startup Yaydoo
Marking its entry into the Mexican market, the US-based blockchain-enabled B2B payments company Paystand has acquired Mexican accounts payable startup Yaydoo, for an undisclosed sum, according to a re...
SoftBank-Backed Web3.0 Startup MarqVision Pulls $20M in Series A Funding
MarqVision, a startup known for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered platform for helping firms maintain the integrity of their products, has announced it has raised $20 million in a Series A fund...
The Amish Startup That’s Telling A Love Story
Amos Yoder is an Amish startup founder who faced an interesting challenge in telling the story of a new retail business he’s building called Kinfork. In his work for Keystone Family Farms, a cooperati...
Billionaire Steven Cohen exits investment in quantitative trading startup Radkl
U.S. hedge fund manager Steven Cohen has pulled out his investment from crypto trading firm Radkl, Bloomberg News reported Aug. 2. Cohen, who owns the New York Mets of Major League Baseball, had inves...
Hackers drain nearly $200 million from crypto startup Nomad
Billions of dollars of value have been wiped off the cryptocurrency market in recent months. Companies in the industry are feeling the pain. Lending and trading firms are facing a liquidity crisis and...
Billionaire Steve Cohen Removes Investment from Crypto Startup Radkl
Billionaire Steve Cohen has removed his investment from cryptocurrency trading startup Radkl. Prior to the hedge fund billionaire’s exit, the trading firm had already lost at least two managing ...
Billionaire Steve Cohen Ditches Crypto Startup Radkl: Report
Cohen backed Radkl in a personal capacity, not via Point72 The proprietary crypto trading firm launched in September last year by partners at GTS Billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen is no longe...
Blockchain Startup W3BCloud to Go Public via SPAC Deal
Blockchain cloud infrastructure service provider W3BCloud is set to go public via a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) dubbed the Social Leverage Acquisition Corp I (SLAC). According to the tr...
Andy Fang, Co-Founder & CTO Of DoorDash, On Turning A School Project Into Feeding America
American Dreamers is a series of conversations with leading Asian American entrepreneurs and business leaders in which they open up about everything from their startup stories and company building to ...
Chinese Grocery Startup Missfresh Faces Cashflow Crisis As Suppliers Protest
A driver packs delivery orders into the back of an electric motorcycle outside a Missfresh warehouse in Beijing, on August 11. 2020. Gilles Sabrie/Bloomberg Missfresh, a Chinese grocery delivery start...