Last Week’s Crypto Investment Highlights
Links to the recipient website, investment announcement, and token info are provided via hyperlinks on the Recipient Name, $ Raised, and Token columns respectively.
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Algorand Inc |
Koibanx is the leading tokenization &
Blockchain payments platform in Latam |
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Paradigm |
Buy, sell and mint fractions of NFTs |
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Jump Crypto |
Digital payment company |
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CMB International, HashKey Capital, QingSong Fund, GSR Ventures, GGV Capital, and SNZ |
Web3 identities for you and your community |
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Bain Capital Crypto |
Primitive’s focus is to build innovative products oriented around Automated Market Makers (AMMs) and their evolving role in decentralized finance (DeFi). |
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Launchpad Capital |
Commission-free crypto trading |
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Starkware, Geometry Research, ReadyPlayerDAO, Neon DAO, Road Capital, Formless Gamma, Bonfire Union |
Matchbox is an ecosystem DAO to ignite and fuel on-chain games on StarkNet |
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Human Capital and MaC Venture Capital |
People-Powered Pharma |
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Yunqi Partners and Web3Vision |
Open-source one-stop self-custody solution provider for institutions securely explore cryptoverse |
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Node Capital and Digital Currency Group (DCG) |
Cybersecurity company specializing in blockchain technology |
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Blockchain Capital |
Maximize the return on your NFTs with cross-chain, instant loans while keeping their utility. |
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Inflection.xyz and Libertus Capital |
Issue digital badges as a special way to nurture your community. Earn them to build an unbiased track record of your work. |
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GSRV |
Meson is a crosschain defi solution for the circulation of stablecoins between different blockchains and Layer 2's |
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Draper Dragon and OKX Blockdream Ventures |
Leveraging the power of Web3 to help you manage, protect, and control your own data. |
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Undisclosed |
Blockify is a project that enables anyone, anywhere in the world to access a suite of new products and services built on web3 |
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7 O'Clock Capital, Monday Capital, Block Pulse, BKEX, MG Capital |
A genesis Fi+ metaverse gaming platform under Web 3.0 with on-chain games and sports prediction system |
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Incubate Fund |
Build decentralized, Japanese video games and products, entirely on the blockchain. |
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Neo Global Capital Ventures, AC Capital, and KuCoin Labs |
The MetaBeat platform is an incentivization community platform powered by fan activities rewarded by a set criteria, the FANomance Index. Creators/artists and fans grow as partners through engagements and rewards on the MetaBeat platform |
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Total Invested |
$134,863,000 |
The Institutional Investors of Crypto
–CoinFund, a cryptoasset-focused investment firm based in NY, announced the launch of CoinFund Ventures I, a new $300 million early-stage VC fund.
CoinFund has some big name limited partners that point to a potential step towards web3 investing becoming mainstream. LPs include Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Adams Street Partners (over $50 billion in AUM), and StepStone Group (about $137 billion in AUM).
–Shima Capital, a pre-Seed – Seed stage blockchain VC based in California, raised $200 million for their first fund. Supporting investors include Dragonfly Capital, Bill Ackman, and Andrew Yang. The founder, Yida Gao, previously founded Divergence Digital Capital which now has over $100 million in assets.
Given the size of this fund and the fact that its target check size is $500k – $2 million, we are likely going to see Shima Capital in a lot of blockchain startups as they deploy $200 million. Yida Gao said, “As crypto-focused VCs continue to raise massive billion dollar plus funds, we identified a pocket of opportunity to support Web3 founders with their first institutional checks that are considered too small for other Tier 1 investors.”
–LongHash Ventures, a web3 investor in Singapore, is raising capital for a newly launched $100 million fund to focus on pre-Seed – Series A web3 infrastructure projects. Notable past investments for LongHash include Polkadot, Zapper, Instadapp, Balancer, Dodo, and Acala.
This is an investor that is worth monitoring in part because they will potentially invest in a fair number of projects that you will be able to buy tokens for. Their Insights page includes a meaty report on tokenomics that draws from their own experience investing in token projects, and it can serve as a resource as you evaluate opportunities.
–Dragonfly, a major global crypto investor just acquired MetaStable Capital, a long running crypto hedge fund that was founded in 2014. Additionally, Dragonfly rebranded itself to emphasize its crypto focus, and made a new logo while dropping “capital” from its name. Per Naval Ravikant, co-founder of MetaStable Capital, MetaStable Capital “was an early investor into Ethereum, Avalanche, Cosmos, Starkware, NEAR, Zcash, Filecoin, Dfinity, and Algorand.”
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