Crypto-businesses in Africa received more venture capital in the first quarter of 2022 than in the first quarter of 2021. This, according to the African Blockchain Report 2021 by Crypto Valley Venture...
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Singapore Pharmacy Platform Startup Lands $27 Million In Bill Gates-Backed Funding Round
Based in Singapore, SwipeRx enables pharmacists across Southeast Asia to buy medicine through the … [+] platform’s B2B commerce tool. SwipeRx Pharmacy app SwipeRx raised $27 million in a Series ...
Singapore’s MatchMove Buys E-Commerce Startup Shopmatic In $200 Million Deal
Shopmatic provides small businesses with an e-commerce presence. Getty Images Fintech company MatchMove has acquired e-commerce startup Shopmatic in a $200 million deal to create an end-to-end service...
Winklevoss Twins Have Fortunes Riding on Crypto Startup Comeback
(Bloomberg) — The family office of billionaires Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss will serve as a test case for the staying power of crypto startups after TerraUSD’s collapse and as interest rates an...
Chelsea Football Club Signs a $20M Crypto Shirt-Sleeve Sponsorship Deal With Crypto Start-Up WhaleFin ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     Chelsea football club has inked a deal with a crypto startup – WhaleFin – for a shirt-sleeve sponsorship. The London club has been the subject of num...
Blockchain Gaming Startup N3TWORK Secures $46 Million from Griffin and Others
Blockchain gaming studio N3TWORK Studios has raised $46 million in a Series A funding round led by Griffin Gaming Partners. N3TWORK Bags $46 Million From Investors The investment round also saw partic...
DoraHacks Secures $20M Funding To Scale Its Global Web3 Startup Platform
Advertisement     FTX Ventures and Liberty City Ventures led a $20 million Series B1 investment in DoraHacks, the global hacker movement, and one of the most active We...
Forerunner, Bezos back Arrived, a startup that lets you buy into single-family rentals for ‘as little as $100’
Arrived has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Forerunner Ventures to give people the ability to buy shares in single-family rentals with “as little as $100.” Returning backers incl...
DoraHacks Raises $20M Led by FTX Ventures and Liberty City Ventures To Scale Its Global Web3 Startup Platform
– Advertisement – Singapore, Singapore, 18th May, 2022, Chainwire DoraHacks, the global hacker movement and one of the most active Web3 developer incentive platforms, announced a $20 milli...
DoraHacks Raises $20 Million Led by FTX Ventures and Liberty City Ventures To Scale Its Global Web 3.0 Startup Platform
May 18, 2022 – Singapore, Singapore DoraHacks, the global hacker movement and one of the most active Web 3.0 developer incentive platforms, announced a $20 million Series B1 investment led by FTX Vent...
A Startup Wanted To Make A Better Baby Formula. It Took Five Long Years.
There are only five manufacturers of baby formula in the U.S. The newest entrant, ByHeart, just gained regulatory approval this year. Getty Images/EyeEm The high barriers to entry illustrate why there...
David Marcus Launches Bitcoin Payments Startup Lightspark – Bitcoin News
David Marcus, former cryptocurrency head at Meta, is launching Lightspark, another payments company that will use crypto as its central payment tool. The startup, which will have Marcus at the helm as...
Why Facebook’s Former Crypto Head Is Starting His Own Crypto Startup?
Following his resignation from Facebook, David Marcus, the company’s former Crypto head has launched himself into the crypto world. The news was announced on his official Twitter handle on May 12th, 2...
Facebook Ex Crypto Head Launched a Bitcoin Payments Startup
Meta concentrates on implementing non-fungible (NFT) tokens into its platforms. Diem was sold to Silvergate Bank for $200 million. Lightspark will provide backend services for businesses. David Marcu...
Coinbase Ventures Backed Startup to Build Pan-African Crypto Exchange With $23 Million Capital Raise – Finance Bitcoin News
The African startup, Mara, recently said it has raised about $23 million in funding from organizations ranging from Coinbase Ventures to individual angel investors like Amit Bhatia and Hamad Alhoimaiz...
Ex-Diem Head David Marcus Launches Crypto Startup
Key Takeaways Former Facebook Finance head David has announced a new cryptocurrency company called Lightspark. The company will reportedly focus on Bitcoin and Lightning. It will gain funding from a16...
Former Top Regulators Chris Giancarlo, Brian Brooks Invest In Crypto Risk Monitoring Startup Solidus Labs
Solidus founders from left to right: COO Chen Arad, CEO Asaf Meir, CTO Praveen Kumar Solidus Labs In 2018, struck by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s series of refusals to approve a bitcoin ET...
Goldman ‘deal guy’ behind Apple, GM cards leaves for fintech start-up iCreditWorks
iCreditWorks CEO Scott Young, former chief commercial officer of Goldman Sachs Marcus. Courtesy: Goldman Sachs A Goldman Sachs executive known for securing some of the industry’s biggest credit-...
Crypto Startup WhaleFin Inks $20M Sponsorship Deal With Chelsea FC
WhaleFin, a digital asset platform owned by Amber Group, has become the official sleeve partner of England’s top flight team, Chelsea Football Club, via an annual sponsorship deal worth $20 million. T...
A16z leads $25 million seed round for NFT infrastructure startup Co:Create
Co:Create, a crypto startup building an infrastructure protocol to help NFT projects launch tokens and manage DAOs, has raised $25 million in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Other inve...
Is African Web 3.0 startup Jambo looking to become WeChat after $30M funding?
The startup company Jambo has received funding recently from distinct firms in order to follow its grand plans Six months ago, a company called Jambo was formed by James and Alice Zhang in the Democra...
UK startup Copper begins offering custody for NFTs to meet institutional demand
Crypto custodian Copper has quietly started offering custody solutions for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). A Copper spokesperson told The Block that it launched the product last week, allowing customers t...
Web 3 Startup Jambo Looks to Be WeChat of Africa
African startup Jambo is looking to emulate the success of Tencent’s WeChat in onboarding Africa onto its planned Web3 social and commerce hub. James and Alice Zhang, siblings, hailing from the Democr...
Blockchain Startup Flow Launches $725M Ecosystem Funds
Flow, the Web3 blockchain company powering NBA Top Shot NFT maker Dapper Labs, revealed Tuesday that it has raised $725 million in funding for its ecosystem expansion. The funding saw participation f...
Big Crypto Investors Pour Millions Into This African Startup
Democratic Republic of Congo-based crypto startup Jambo has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round with several notable investors. The six-month-old crypto startup has attracted high-profile i...
So-Col Irene Zhao’s Startup Is Seeking Funding At A Valuation Of $100 Million
SO-proposed COL’s investment round follows a $1.75 million seed round in February that included Animoca Brands and DeFiance Capital as co-leads, as well as Three Arrows Capital, Mechanism Capital, Glo...
UK-based crypto startup Copper now handles custody of NFTs
Crypto startup Copper has unobtrusively begun offering authority answers for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) A Copper representative has informed that it sent off the item last week, permitting clients to ...
Visa crypto executive leaves for Softbank-backed start-up DriveWealth
Terry Angelos, Visa’s global head of fintech and crypto. DriveWealth One of Visa‘s top executives is leaving the payments giant for a brokerage technology start-up, CNBC has learned. Terry...