FunFair Technologies, a developer of decentralized applications with a focus on gaming, has announced the launch of FunFair Ventures, a new program to support early-stage blockchain projects. This lat...
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P2E Startup DoubleIT Offers Rewards and Fun-filled Mobile Gaming Experience to Users
Advertisement     Following efforts to make play-to-earn gaming sessions a fun-filled and easy experience for crypto enthusiasts, a team of experts with quality experi...
Sequoia-Backed Electric Scooter Startup Beam Secures $93 Million Funding
(From left) Cofounders Alan Jiang and Deb Gangopadhyay. Courtesy of Beam Mobility Singapore-based startup Beam—an electric scooter and bike provider backed by the likes of Gobi Partners, Sequoia Capit...
3-month-old Stealth Singapore GameFi Startup Raises Seed Funding of $2.7 million
[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] Singapore-based game finance (GameFii) blockchain startup, Ethlas, announced on Feb. 15 that it has secured $2.7 million in seed funding from investors such as...
How Jack Dorsey grew Square from start-up to payments powerhouse
Jack Dorsey (L), CEO of Square and CEO of Twitter, live casts video while standing outside the New York Stock Exchange for the IPO of Square, in New York November 19, 2015. Lucas Jackson | Reuters In ...
Shares of EV start-up Nikola surge on earnings beat, revenue in 2022
San Pedro, CA – December 17: The first two zero-emissions electric trucks, from an order of 100 vehicles, delivered from the Nikola Corporation to Total Transportation Services at the Port of Lo...
ConsenSys alum raises $34M for his crypto startup Aligned
Sam Cassatt, former chief strategy officer at ConsenSys, had been working under the radar since 2020 for his web3 infrastructure startup Aligned. The company has now emerged from stealth with $34 mill...
Crypto Settlement Startup Zebec Gets $15 Million to Craft Programmable Cash Stream Payments – Finance Bitcoin News
The multi-signature treasury management and settlement startup Zebec has revealed the company has raised $15 million in order to bolster a continuous and programmable cash stream protocol on the Solan...
Meet The VC Firm With $544 Million To Buy ‘Orphaned’ Startup Stakes From Other Funds
NewView Capital’s team with Ravi Viswanathan at center. ©ANNA-ALEXIA PHOTO NewView Capital founder Ravi Viswanathan has worked with startups as a venture capitalist for more than two decades. He...
Congo Based Startup Jambo Raises $7.5 Million in Seed Funding Round – Fintech Bitcoin News
A Congo-based Web3 app developer, Jambo, recently said it raised $7.5 million in a seed funding round. According to a report, the startup’s successful seed round is the latest by an Africa-based firm ...
Why HTC Invested In A Hong Kong Events Platform Startup In The Middle Of The Pandemic
An employee wearing HTC Corp. Vive virtual reality headsets at the T.UM showroom in the SK Telecom … [+] Co. headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, on June 11, 2021. SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg When Ev...
Sequoia-Backed Indian SaaS Startup Increff Raises $12 Million
From left to right, Increff cofounders: Romil Jain, Anshuman Agarwal and Rajul Jain. Courtesy of Increff Bengaluru-based startup Increff has raised $12 million in a Series B funding round led by India...
Crypto Startup Terraforms Compelled By Judge To Comply With Their SEC
A US District court in New York has intervened in a case between the SEC and a crypto company and its CEO. Judge J. Paul Oetken ruled that Terraform Labs (TFL) and its CEO, Do Kwon, must comply with t...
Peter Thiel-Backed Philippine Fintech Startup Raises $31 Million, Aims To Be A One-Stop Shop For Southeast Asia’s Financial Needs
(From left) PayMongo’s CTO Jaime Hing III, CEO Francis Plaza and CCO Luis Sia. COURTESY OF PayMongo Manila-based fintech startup PayMongo—backed by the likes of PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, pay...
Flutterwave Raises $250 Million in Series D Funding Round, Startup Now Valued at Over $3 Billion – Fintech Bitcoin News
Fintech startup Flutterwave announced recently that it has raised $250 million from its Series D funding round. The funding round, which attracted international investors, saw the startup’s value rise...
$BTC: A Property Startup Backed By Jeff Bezos Sells Its First Property In Colombia For Bitcoin
Prometheus International, a real estate developer in Europe, sold two luxury residences on the Portuguese island of Madeira for a total of €4.1 million ($4.7 million), paid in the popular cryptocurren...
Temasek-Backed Startup Zilingo Aims To Raise Up To $200 Million
Ankiti Bose speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview on the sidelines of the Bloomberg New … [+] Economy Forum in Singapore on November 19, 2021. Wei Leng Tay/Bloomberg Zilingo, a fashion ...
Where one of UnitedHealth’s first tech start-up acquisitions is today
Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images In 2010, Grant Verstandig founded Audax Health with a vision of putting more power in the hands of the health-care consumer and creating a digital interface to enc...
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...
Fireblocks Acquires Stablecoin Payments Startup- First Digital
Fireblocks, a digital asset custody, transfer, and settlement platform, has announced its acquisition of First Digital, which is a stablecoin, and digital asset payments technology platform, in a deal...
3 Essential and Nonessential Startup Expenses
Starting a new business is extremely exciting. Maybe you have a vision of what you want your company to be, and you’re looking forward eagerly to the moment when it goes from an aspiration to a realit...
Startup Esports Racing Leagues Begin Influencing Real-Life Decisions By Racers, Sponsors
Ryan Vargas’ Xfinity Series sponsor Swann Security also sponsors him in the Monday Night Racing … [+] series he participates in. Justin Melillo/Monday Night Racing Every Monday, a group of...
IRA Financial Breach: Hackers Snatch $36 Million From US-Based Fintech Startup
Many individuals have joined IRA Financial Trust with the dream of establishing a secure future in cryptocurrency. But it did not turn out the way they expected. A number of users reportedly lost thei...
Reliance’s Jio Platforms Invests $200 Million In AI-Driven Mobile Startup Glance
Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Platforms, the tech arm of Reliance Industries. NurPhoto via Getty Images Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Platforms, the tech arm of Reliance Industries, has invested $200 m...
Crypto start-up BlockFi to pay $100M in settlement with SEC, 32 states
The logo of cryptocurrency platform BlockFi. Budrul Chukrut | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images Cryptocurrency firm BlockFi said Monday it has agreed to pay $100 million to the U.S. Securitie...
Crypto Startup Scrooge Gold Lands Salesforce Senior Tech Leader Brady Lewis As President
Pendleton, IN, February 14, 2022 – Scrooge Gold, a blockchain startup and creator of the Scrooge cryptocurrency, today announced that Brady Lewis has been named as the new President of the company, ef...
i2c Joins Hands with Fintech Startup KARTY
Digital payment and banking technology provider, i2c recently announced its collaboration with KARTY, a Qatar-based fintech company providing customized digital financial solutions, for the launch of ...
EV start-up Polestar takes shots at Tesla’s Elon Musk in Super Bowl ad
Electric vehicle start-up Polestar, which is expected to go public this year, used its first-ever Super Bowl ad to indirectly take shots at its competitors, including Tesla and Volkswagen. The 30-seco...
Ethereum scaling startup Optimism discloses ‘critical bug’ fix
advertisement Developers for the Ethereum scaling project Optimism said Thursday that it patched a “critical bug” earlier this month. As noted in a disclosure blog post, the team said that the bug was...
Cardano Startup Ravendex Announces Trading Competition on BitMart
Ravendexlabs has announced a trading competition to celebrate their BitMart listing which happened on January 10, 2022. About Ravendex Ravendex, a Cardano startup project that started last year is on ...
SoftBank-Backed Startup to Offer Crypto Trading (CNBC Report)
DriveWealth – a SoftBank-backed start-up that assists fintech firms in offering stocks – will reportedly provide cryptocurrency trading services to clients. To do so, the company will acquire Crypto-S...