Binance-owned Trust Wallet responds to a social engineering attack that saw a metaverse startup lose $4 million in a face-to-face social engineering scam. Trust Wallet said that an organized crime syn...
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The New Era Of Startup Acceleration Is Here. Fractal Web3 Accelerator Launched An Accelerator Program For Startups On January 16.
This program for web3 startups focused on scoring improvement, traction, and raising of investments. The Blockchain market introduces new formats, technologies, and methodologies. Developers are facin...
Banking Startup LevelField Aims to Become First FDIC-Insured Institution to Offer Crypto Services
Although LevelField may become the first FDIC-insured bank to offer crypto services, that does not mean the bank will necessarily offer a safer way to invest in volatile digital assets. FDIC insurance...
Bitcoin mining infrastructure startup Giga Energy raising $10 million in Series A
Giga Energy, a bitcoin mining infrastructure startup focused on utilizing wasted natural gas as a power source, is raising $10 million in Series A funding. The funding will help the Texas-based ...
Cardano-oriented GameFi Startup Joins Microsoft’s Web3 Program
Gamza Khanzadaev Paima Studios joins Microsoft for Startups program to boost Japanese Web3 gaming Paima Studios, a Cardano and Milkomeda-focused GameFi project, will take part in a new Web3 initiative...
Nuclear Bitcoin Mining Hits Snag as UK Startup Sells Business
A firm that was building out a nuclear energy-powered mining facility in Ohio is the latest victim of tough crypto market conditions. UK-based Lake Parime, a company focused on transforming ener...
DeFi Startup TheADA Sets to Boost Accessibility to NFT Staking
Advertisement     TheADA, a DeFi startup seeking to build a decentralized and scalable protocol for NFT staking, revealed it is on a relentless mission to make NFT sta...
Saudi Aramco backs Brooklyn-based startup turning ammonia into fuel
In the race to find cleaner fuels, the heavy duty transportation sector is woefully behind because batteries don’t have enough juice to power trucks and ships. Enter ammonia. New technology and ...
Growing a Successful Blockchain Startup Is Hard, Here’s 5 Pointers
Did you know that less than 10% of blockchain startups succeed? For the ones that fail, it usually isn’t due to lack of money but rather the execution. According to a 2017 Deloitte report, less than 1...
This Radar Tech Startup Just Raised $17 Million To Make Automated Driving Cheaper And Safer
A Spartan Radar engineer runs sensor tests in a chamber that blocks electromagnetic interference in Los Alamitos, California. Elizabeth Lippman / Spartan Radar Autonomous cars and trucks won’t be a bi...
Crypto security startup Hypernative raises $9 million seed round
Crypto companies such as Alchemy, Blockdaemon and Nexo backed crypto security firm Hypernative in a $9 million seed round. The round, led by Boldstart Ventures and IBI Tech Fund, also saw parti...
Longevity Startup VitaDAO Raises $4.1m, Backed By Pfizer, Balaji Srinivasan
VitaDAO is developing drug assets as IP-NFTs VitaDAO, scientific illustration by Dani Bergey The web transformed life as we know it, allowing new ways of working, solving problems, and distributing cu...
Pfizer Ventures backs decentralized science startup in $4.1 million round
VitaDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization that funds research projects in the field of longevity science, closed a $4.1 million raise. The venture arm of Pfizer invested in the token rou...
Backed by Jay-Z, Web3 Hardware Startup Spatial Labs Raises $10 Million
Web3 startup Spatial Labs has raised $10 million in its seed funding round, led by Blockchain Capital and backed by billionaire rap artist Jay-Z’s venture capital firm Marcy Venture Partners. When com...
Islamic Fintech Startup Wahed Opens Physical Office in UK
Wahed has a plan to help its customers grow their funds in the most Sharia-compliant way. American financial technology and service provider, Wahed has extended its global reach with a newly opened of...
Brooklyn Evolution Startup Melonfrost Raises $7 Million To Make More Microbes
. Melonfrost Sam Levin’s grandfather was a fifth-generation potato farmer in Western Massachusetts, struggling to compete with dropping potato prices from industrial farms in the Midwest. After trying...
Mark Cuban Aims To Disrupt A $365 Billion Industry – With The Only Startup That Bears His Name
Billionaire venture capitalist Mark Cuban has founded or invested early in hundreds of startup companies over the years. But only one of them, founded in January 2022, bears his name. The Mark Cuban C...
FTX US Former Executive Raises Funds for Crypto Startup
FTX is a bankrupt crypto exchange, once counted among the leading crypto exchanges in the world. Its US arm was led by Brett Harrison. According to recent information, Harrison has raised $5 million ...
Private sharding startup Calimero Network raises $8.5 million
London-based blockchain infrastructure company Calimero Network has raised $8.5 million in a seed round co-led by Khosla Ventures, Lyrik Ventures and Near Foundation. The round, which closed in ...
Laid-off Silicon Valley workers are panic-selling their start-up shares as valuations plummet — here are 3 top tech stocks for 2023 that actually make money
Laid-off Silicon Valley workers are panic-selling their start-up shares as valuations plummet — here are 3 top tech stocks for 2023 that actually make money The white-collar recession is well underway...
Coinbase and Circle Funded Former FTX President’s New Crypto Startup
Brett Harrison, former President of FTX introduced his new crypto startup. He was the President of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, FTX US. And in September 2022, he stepped down from his rol...
Former FTX U.S President Raises $5 Million Funding For New Startup
The former U.S President announced the launch of his new crypto firm on Twitter. Harrison said that his relationship with SBF “had reached a point of total deterioration.” Former FTX president Brett H...
Former head of FTX.US raises $5M from Coinbase, Circle for a new crypto startup
Former FTX.US President Brett Harrison is in the process of launching a new cryptocurrency startup that would service institutional clients. According to a Bloomberg News report, Harrison has raised $...
Former FTX US head makes “surprising” comeback after exchange collapse, securing $5M funding for startup – Cryptopolitan
Brett Harrison, ex-FTX.US President, is on the verge of creating a new cryptocurrency startup called Architect. However, the startup will be tailored to meet the needs of institutional clients. As rep...
Sequoia China and Dao5 back ZK startup Hyper Oracle
Zero-knowledge (ZK) middleware developer Hyper Oracle closed a $3 million round co-led by Sequoia China’s seed fund and Dao5. Foresight Ventures and FutureMoney Group also participated in ...
NFT startup Candy Digital raised $38.5 million at the start of this year
NFT collectibles startup Candy Digital raised $38.5 million from investors with the first sale occurring on Jan. 3. A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulatory filing shows that the st...
Media Startup Semafor to Buyback Sbf’s Stake of $10 Million
Semafor raised $25 million in a seed round in October 2022, of which $10 million came from SBF. They disclosed this on December 2, 2022, but at the time, they had no plans for a buyback. After inter...
Meet Charlie Javice, The Startup Founder Who Fooled JP Morgan
“There were definitely times where I painted a rosier picture than things truly were,” Frank’s founder and former CEO said months before JP Morgan bought her startup for $175 million. In 2021, Charlie...
ZK proof startup Ulvetanna raises $15 million in seed funding
Ulvetanna, a zero-knowledge-proof (ZKP) hardware firm, closed a $15 million seed round led by Bain Capital Crypto and Paradigm. The round, which Jump Crypto also participated in, valued the startup at...
Ethereum Startup Obol Labs Raises $12.5M to Decentralize Validators
In addition to providing software that can make outages and mishaps less likely for validators large and small, Obol thinks it will be able to ameliorate some of the issues with centralized control. “...