Electronic Arts Founder Trip Hawkins Joins Web3 Gaming Startup

“I’m excited to begin my journey with Games for a living, leveraging new and emerging technologies to enhance performance and create exciting, immersive experiences for gamers,” Hawkins said in a pres...

Israeli Startup Chain Reaction Raises $70 Million to Build Blockchain Silicon – Blockchain Bitcoin News

Chain Reaction, a Tel Aviv-based blockchain startup, announced it has raised $70 million as part of its Series C funding round. The objective of the company is to expand its engineering staff to accel...

Web3 Social Startup Towns Raises $25.5M Led by Andreessen Horowitz

Web2 was built around the idea of connecting people, and companies like Twitter and Facebook, now Meta, built global empires around this idea. But the connectivity they offered came with a hefty price...

DWF Labs Invests $25M in Privacy Tech Startup Beldex

“We are excited about Beldex’s ecosystem, which offers scalable and secure decentralized applications prioritizing privacy,” DWF Labs managing partner Andrei Grachev said in the announcement post. “Th...

A16z Leads $25M Round for Web3 Startup Building Online Towns

Towns offers an end-to-end encrypted chat protocol that lets communities create programmable, self-governed “town squares” where users can assemble and chat without worrying about whether the app owne...

Web3 Startup Aims For Mastercard Purchases Via Ethereum Wallets

Web3 startup Immersve has teamed up with Mastercard to eventually allow New Zealand and Australia-based customers to make purchases directly from their Ethereum crypto wallets. Using the upcoming Imme...

Hack VC and Jump Crypto back DeFi yield startup Affine Protocol

Deals • February 23, 2023, 10:06AM EST Published 5 minutes earlier on Affine Protocol closed a $5.1 million seed round to build a decentralized protocol and app that offers users access to sustainable...

Green Crypto Start-Up C+Charge Aims to Make Electric Vehicle Charging Carbon Neutral – The Next Big Thing?

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Multiple environmentally conscious cryptocurrency projects emerged in 2022. Some have tried to address Bitcoin mining energy issu...

Australian Gaming Start-up Immutable Lays off 11% of Workforce

The biggest cryptocurrency gaming start-up in Australia, Immutable, is laying off 11% of its staff, reported the Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday. The news comes despite Immutable obtaining venture ...

Blockchain Startup YAY Network Rebrands to Focus on Helping Investors to Navigate the Space

[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] YAY Network will aim to build on its prior work as a tier 1 launchpad with a focus on scaling and enhancing web3 projects through the introduction of multiple ...

Blockchain Startup YAY Network Rebrands

YAY Network will aim to build on its prior work as a tier 1 launchpad with a focus on scaling and enhancing web3 projects through the introduction of multiple new B2B services. The web3 startup YAY Ga...

EtherMail and Blockchain Founders Group to Enable Web3 Comms for Startup Portfolio Projects

[PRESS RELEASE – Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany, 22 February 2023] EtherMail, the first Web3 Email Solution setting the standard for anonymous and encrypted wallet-to-wallet communication, has to...

Jed McCaleb’s space station company Vast acquires startup Launcher

The company’s first space tug, called Orbiter SN1, is seen undergoing final launch preparations. Launcher Space station company Vast announced on Tuesday it has acquired fellow startup Launcher ...

Sequoia, Multicoin co-lead $6M funding for Solana-based crypto payments startup TipLink

TipLink, a crypto payments platform built on the Solana blockchain, raised $6 million in a seed funding round. Sequoia Capital and Multicoin Capital co-led the round, with Solana Ventures, Circl...

Binance Labs and Polychain co-lead ZK startup Polyhedra Network’s $10 million raise

Deals • February 21, 2023, 9:00AM EST Web3 infrastructure startup Polyhedra Network raised $10 million in a round co-led by Binance Labs and Polychain Capital. The strategic round also saw parti...

South African Startup Momint Seeks to Boost Electricity Generation Using Blockchain-Based Solution – Bitcoin News

Using a solution that is based on blockchain technology, the South African startup Momint has said the recently launched Suncash initiative aims to ease the country’s power generation challenges. For ...

ZK dark pool startup Renegade breaks cover with $3.4 million from Dragonfly, Naval Ravikant

Published 35 minutes earlier on Renegade, a start up building a new type of decentralized exchange, emerged from stealth with a $3.4 million seed round, led by Dragonfly Capital and former AngelList C...

Polychain leads ZK chip startup Cysic’s $6 million raise

Cysic, a zero-knowledge (ZK) hardware startup founded in August of last year, raised $6 million in a seed round led by Polychain Capital. The seed round closed in December 2022, said Leo Fan, co...

Google is mismanaged and has ‘delusions of exceptionalism,’ entrepreneur who sold his startup to the search giant says

Google has lost its way and could be brought down by its lack of a sense of urgency, a former employee who sold his company to the tech giant has argued. Praveen Seshadri, whose company AppSheet was a...

Rise of zombie VCs haunts tech investors as startup valuations plunge

An art exhibition based on the hit TV series “The Walking Dead” in London, England. Ollie Millington | Getty Images For some venture capitalists, we’re approaching a night of the liv...

Web3 tooling startup Nefta raises seed round at $32.5 million valuation

Deals • February 16, 2023, 8:30AM EST Published 30 minutes earlier on Nefta, a web3 infrastructure startup focused on gaming and entertainment sectors, raised $5 million in a seed funding round. ...

Napster buys web3 music startup Mint Songs

Napster, the streaming service best-known for the peer-to-peer audio file-sharing platform it operated in the early 2000s, is buying music startup Mint Songs. The company, which was acquired las...

Venom Blockchain Partners with DAO Maker to Incubate Web3 Startup…

Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, 13th February, 2023, Chainwire Venom Foundation, the first Layer-1 blockchain licensed by the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), has announced a partnership with DAO Maker, a leadin...

Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Vision Fund Posts $5.5 Billion Quarterly Loss, Pulls Back On Startup Investments

SoftBank Group Corp Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son. Alessandro Di Ciommo/NurPhoto via Getty Images Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group reported earnings for the December quarter this w...

Kenyan AI and Blockchain Startup Receives Investment From Swiss VC Firm – Africa Bitcoin News

Fastagger Inc, an artificial intelligence and blockchain startup from Kenya, recently revealed that it had received an investment from the Swizterland-based blockchain investor CVVC. Mutembei Kariuki,...

FanDuel Co-Founders Raise $4M for Digital Music Collectible Startup Vault

“Given their success in founding FanDuel, the team at Vault understands the power of engaged communities and the importance of consumer-friendly design,” said Placeholder VC partner Chris Burniske in ...

AI Startup Kinetix Launches World’s First Avatar-Driven Emotes

AI News: Kinetix, the AI Tec startup has released its revolutionary user-generated emotes for video games and virtual worlds. It represents an important first step towards genuine self-expression in g...

Demand for NFT tech nabbed this crypto startup a $800m valuation

Episode 8 of Season 5 of The Scoop was recorded remotely with The Block’s Frank Chaparro and QuickNode Co-Founder and CEO Alex Nabutovsky. Listen below, and subscribe to The Scoop on Apple...

Highly Criticized ‘GTX’ Startup Officially Announced as ‘Open Exchange’

Disgraced crypto VC Zhu Su has officially announced his next project: “Open Exchange” – a crypto marketplace for claims and derivatives trading.  The company is intended to help investors who lost mon...

bitsCrunch Launches Startup Program for Devs, Startups – Including NFT Analytics APIs

Munich, Germany, 9th February, 2023, Chainwire bitsCrunch is thrilled to announce the launch of its upcoming startup program as part of its commitment to bring more awareness and transparency of data ...

Crypto protection startup Coincover raises $30 million

Crypto protection startup Coincover has secured $30 million in funding in a round led by Foundation Capital. Coincover provides  protection and insurance-backed guarantees to crypto investors an...

bitsCrunch Launches Startup Program for Devs, Startups

Munich, Germany, 9th February, 2023, Chainwire bitsCrunch is thrilled to announce the launch of its upcoming startup program as part of its commitment to bring more awareness and transparency of data ...