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SoftBank Ventures Asia Leads $5.8 Million Investment In Korean Autonomous Shipping Startup
COURTESY OF SEADRONIX SoftBank Ventures Asia, the venture arm of Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group, led a $5.8 million round in South Korean autonomous navigation startup Seadronix, ...
South Korean Crypto Startup Xangle Bags $17 Million in Series B Funding
Xangle, a cryptocurrency disclosure platform built by South Korean crypto company CrossAngle, has raised $17 million from industry investors in a just-concluded Series B funding. Xangle Bags $17 Mill...
Blockchain Startup FQX announces the appointment of James Freis, former Director of FinCEN, as Regulatory Technology Officer to compose Programmable Debt offerings
Zurich, May 6th, 2022 – Blockchain startup FQX, known for their eNote, a blockchain-based debt instrument, has appointed James H. Freis, Jr. as their new Regulatory Technology Officer. Mr. Freis draws...
Irene Zhao’s Startup So-Col Is Raising Funds at $100M Valuation
Irene Zhao’s SO-COL is making it easy for anyone who wants to be involved with the platform to have an easy landing as it is taking payments in both fiat currency and cryptocurrencies. Irene Zhao’s SO...
Rivian stock plummets as Ford sells shares of EV start-up
Production of electric Rivian R1T pickup trucks on April 11, 2022 at the company’s plant in Normal, Ill. Michael Wayland / CNBC Shares of Rivian Automotive opened Monday at a new low following a...
How We Selected Our Honorees
More than 400 companies were considered for this year’s list. Finalists were selected based on their use of AI-enabled technology, business models and financials. T he Forbes AI 50 list celebrates the...
Crypto hedge fund start-up Pangea to focus on ‘long only’ strategy: Bloomberg
Two crypto market colleagues have started a hedge fund that will take a “long-only” strategy after receiving $85 million in first-round funding, Bloomberg reported earlier this week. Pangea Fund Manag...
Crypto hedge fund startup Pangea to go the ‘long only’ way
Crypto market partners have begun a multifaceted investments worth over $85 million It will take a long-only strategy subsequent to getting $85 million in first-round funding Pangea Fund Management wa...
Gaming startup Untamed Planet raises $24 million in Series A funding
Untamed Planet, a blockchain-based gaming startup, raised $24.3 million in a Series A funding round led by Animoca Brands. Untamed Planet uses the game creation platform Roblox to recreate natural en...
Blockchain gaming startup InfiniGods raises $9 million in seed funding
InfiniGods, a blockchain-based game development studio, announced Thursday that it raised $9 million in seed funding. Pantera Capital led the funding round. Additional participants include Framework V...
Privacy-centric Startup Nym Technologies Secures $300m in Funding
Privacy-centric startup Nym Technologies secured $300 million in financing from numerous venture capitalists, incentivising developers to leverage Nym’s decentralised infrastructure into its eco...
New York Crypto Accounting Startup Tactic Raises $2.6 Million Funding
Tactic, a rapidly growing crypto accounting platform based in New York, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $2.6 million in a funding round. The funding was co-led by Founders Fund, a San Franci...
Payments startup Kevin rakes in $65 million Series A
Lithuanian fintech startup Kevin said Tuesday that it has raised $65 million in a Series A round led by Accel. Kevin provides an advanced account-to-account payment infrastructure to replace costly c...
India’s Emerging Quick Delivery Startup Zepto Pulls $200M in Series D
Zepto, one of India’s emerging quick food delivery startups has raised the sum of $200 million in a Series D funding round, drawing unusually high interest from venture capital firms. According to a T...
Video Startup Angel Studios Discloses $10.6M Bitcoin Investment
The community-driven movie streaming platform, Angel Studios, has recently revealed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it purchased Bitcoin worth more than $10.6 m...
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...
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...
Yuga Labs’ Otherdeeds Sold Out as the Startup Cashes in Over $320M
Yuga Labs, the blockchain startup in charge of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) Non-Fungible Token (NFT) collection and ecosystem has made history yet again with the successful sales of Otherdeeds, the...
Online Gardening Start-Up Sproutl Partners With Kew Gardens
Sproutl, the new curated online gardening marketplace has announced a strategic partnership with the … [+] world-famous plant science institution, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Kew) focussed on en...
Tech Start-up ‘Picture This’ Drops First Photography NFT With Renowned Photographer Christian Houge – Sponsored Bitcoin News
sponsored On April 29, photography-focused tech start-up Picture This is finally launching the ‘Polar Bear’ NFT, which raises awareness and money towards climate change and the impact humans have on o...
Digital B2B Payments Startup CoreChain Technologies Raises $4.2m in Seed Round
Blockchain-based digital B2B payments startup CoreChain Technologies has announced a $4.2 million seed round led by Ulu Ventures. Other investors include Connecticut Innovations, Bloccelerate VC and N...
Miami Startup ‘Milo Credit’ Offers Zero-Down Mortages
In a new twist on crypto-based real estate mortgages, clients of Milo Credit, a Miami-based startup, can purchase property with no down payment but must put up cryptocurrency as collateral. Rather tha...
Ethereum scaling startup Optimism confirms governance token as part of broader shift
Optimism, the Ethereum scaling startup, said Tuesday that it will shift to a new governance structure powered in part by a dedicated token. The details were included in an announcement thread shared o...
Circle, Polygon Help Japanese Blockchain Games Startup Raise $24 Mln
Japanese blockchain gaming company double jump.tokyo said on Wednesday it raised 3 billion yen ($24 million) in its latest funding round. Notable stakeholders in the firm include Singapore crypto unic...
Bitcoin mining startup Blockmetrix secures $25M from BankProv and CrossTower
Blockmetrix, a US-based Bitcoin mining startup that’s experienced massive growth since its launch in 2021, has secured a $25 million debt facility to expand its operations via the purchase of addition...
L2 Scaling Startup Optimism Reveals Governance Collective, Native Token, and ‘Many Airdrops’ – Bitcoin News
The layer two (L2) Ethereum scaling project Optimism has announced the launch of Optimism Collective, “a large-scale experiment in digital democratic governance” managed by the newly created Optimism ...
Web3 Startup PROOF Raises $10m From Seven Seven Six
PROOF, the Web3 media startup which recently launched the Moonbirds Ethereum NFT series, has successfully raised $10 million in funding from Seven Seven Six, a venture capital firm led by Reddit’...
Postmates founder Bastian Lehmann launches crypto startup
According to local news outlet FinanceFWD, German entrepreneur Bastian Lehmann is making a move into the crypto industry with the creation of a new startup called “TipTop Labs.” Although d...
Postmates founder Bastian Lehmann set to launch crypto startup: report
advertisement Bastian Lehmann, founder of the Uber-acquired food delivery service Postmates, is reportedly set to launch a startup in the cryptocurrency sector as he becomes the latest tech figure to ...
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...