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George Soros Buys a Big Rivian Stake
Text size Soros Fund Management’s stake was worth about $2.1 billion at the end of December. Courtesy Rivian George Soros’ family investment office, Soros Fund Management, revealed a new stake i...
DAO Maker Launches Public SHOs For Investing In Crypto Startups
DAO Maker, a platform for retail venture investing in equity and tokens, has launched Public Strong Holder Offering (SHO) as its latest service to facilitate fundraising for blockchain and cryptocurre...
Web3 investor Infinity raises $70M to deploy startups abroad
Taipei-based Web 3 investor Infinity Ventures Crypto has raised $70 million to deploy startups in Asia and the Americas in its first fund deal, which closed today, CoinDesk reported. The fund aims to ...
Probes, executive upheaval continue to tank SPAC-backed EV start-ups
Electric Last Mile Solutions CEO James Taylor wanted to separate his electric vehicle company by staying out of controversies that had engulfed many of his competitors. “We have no lawsuits; no ...
Blockchain startups grow as global VC funding generated $25.2B in 2021
Last year was impressive for blockchain startups, as research from CB Insights found that venture capital funding reached new heights during every quarter of 2021. According to CB Insights’ “State Of ...
Despite market crash, investors keep flocking to crypto startups
While the crypto market started the year poorly, with the industry losing over $300 billion of its value due to the fall in the price of Bitcoin and other assets to new lows, investors have continued ...
Amazon holiday earnings blow away expectations (thanks to Rivian), stock spikes
Amazon.com Inc. executives thought that supply-chain and staffing concerns could wipe away their holiday profit. They were wrong. Amazon AMZN, -7.81% reported fourth-quarter profit of $14.3 billion, o...
Crypto start-ups raised huge venture funding rounds in January
A bitcoin sculpture made from scrap metal is installed outside the BitCluster cryptocurrency mining farm in Norilsk, Russia, on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cryptoc...
Reddit Cofounder’s VC Firm Raises $500M Primarily For Crypto Startups
Alexis Ohanian – co-founder of Reddit – recently raised $500 million for his venture capital firm 776 Management LLC. He said that the new funds will primarily be used to “double down” on investment i...
Reddit co-founder raises $500 million fund for crypto startups: Report
advertisement 776 Management, the VC firm owned by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, has raised $500 million for two new funds primarily focused on crypto. The Wall Street Journal reported the news o...
Sandbox To Support 40 Blockchain Startups After Raising $50 Million
Sandbox has announced a $50 million funding to launch its metaverse accelerator program. The company is also targeting about 40 blockchain startups a year for the program, in partnership with venture ...
Poolz Obtains $1M Grant from Harmony to Boost Growth of Emerging DeFi Startups
Saint Vincent, Grenadines, 27th January, 2022, — Poolz Finance, a leading DeFi launchpad, has received a $1 million grant from Harmony Network to help incubated startups integrate Harmony in their pro...
Huobi Incubator Announces Strategic Sponsorship with Avalanche, Affirms Commitment to Blockchain Startups
[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] Huobi Incubator, the project incubation arm of Huobi Group, today announced that it will start a basket of sponsoring plans for Avalanche ecosystem to jointly ...
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Traders work during the IPO for Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Global Inc on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) floor in New York City, U.S., June 30, 2021. Brendan McDermid | Reuters BEIJING — Inv...
Shares of Rivian and other EV start-ups tank amid stock sell-off
Rivian electric trucks are seen parked near the Nasdaq MarketSite building in Times Square on November 10, 2021 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Shares of Rivian Automotive and oth...
Lab-grown meat start-ups hope to make strides in 2022
Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of cultivated meat start-up Eat Just, has a vision: He imagines a day when meat grown in a lab is available everywhere from Michelin-star restaurants to street vendors...
Startups raised more money from Crypto in the last five years
Crypto startups have raised more money in the last five years than ever DAOs and Web3 were the runners up with 17% subsidizing Computerized monetary forms have raised several interest from a plethor...
Crypto Start-ups Raised 30x More Money Than Five Years Ago
Vladislav Sopov TV host and finance expert Jon Erlichman shares statistics on how venture capitalists invaded Web3 segment with their money Contents Crypto fundraising in 2021 smashed previous record ...
Multi-crypto platform MathWallet introduces MathDAO VC fund to accelerate web3 startups » CryptoNinjas
MathWallet, a multi-chain, multi-platform cryptocurrency DeFi wallet, announced today the launch of MathDAO, a $50 million venture capital fund launched by several of its ecosystem partners. MathDAO w...
Blossom Capital’s Newly Launched $432 Million Fund to Focus on Crypto Startups – Finance Bitcoin News
Blossom Capital, the London-based venture capital firm founded by Candice Lo, Imran Ghory, Mike Hudack, and Ophelia Brown plans to dedicate more funds to the growing cryptocurrency ecosystem. On Janua...
Female-Backed VC Blossom Capital Raises $432M to Back Startups
Ophelia Brown’s Blossom Capital has raised $432 million to back early-stage tech startups in Europe. She said that the amount raised was a third of which has been earmarked for cryptocurrency investme...
FTX Launches $2B Venture Fund to Invest in Crypto Startups
Cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX announced it has launched a $2 billion venture fund unit in a bid to invest in crypto startups. Following the announcement, the venture unit will be headed by Amy ...
FTX Launches $2 Billion VC Fund to Invest in Crypto Startups
On January 14, FTX, a popular Bahamian-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptocurrency Exchange A cryptocurrency exchange is an online platform that supports the exchange of various currencies for a ...
Crypto Exchange FTX Establishes $2B Fund to Invest in Crypto Startups
Crypto derivatives exchange FTX has set up a $2 billion fund to invest in crypto-industry startups, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Amy Wu, who heads the fund. Wu later confirmed the move in ...
Can Blockchain’s Capacity for Community Unlock Success for Early-Stage Startups?
HodlX Guest Post Submit Your Post The future of startups is community. Startups have a higher chance of succeeding if they have a community behind them. Having a community is like having a support ...
A North Korean Hacking Group Is Targeting Crypto Startups
Key Takeaways Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky says that the hacking group BlueNoroff is primarily targeting crypto startups in a report released earlier today. The group has used phishing campaigns to ma...
North Korean hackers target crypto startups in months-long campaign
advertisement A Thursday report from the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs identified North Korean hackers behind sophisticated phishing and social engineering attacks targeting cryptocurrency...