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Last week 40 projects announced fundraising rounds:
Lighthouse | A decentralized storage protocol that provides the ability to pay once and store your files forever β with participation from LongHash Ventures, Protocol Labs, Fenbushi Capital, NGC Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, Formless Capital, Mask Network, Balaji Srinivasan, 2Link Buidl, and HashCIB.
Decrypt ($10M) | Your gateway to the world of Web3 β with participation from Hack VC, Hashkey Capital, Canvas Ventures, Protocol Labs, HoneyDAO, XBTO Humla Ventures, Nexo, William Mougayar, Steven Fingerhood, Global Coin Research, Own Fund, IOSG Ventures, Don Ho, OrangeDAO, Mask Network, Alex Bamberger, Jordan Garbis, Richard Dai, Terry McDonell, Audrey LLC, SK Group, and ConsenSys Mesh.
Syndicate ($6M) | Decentralized investing protocol and social network β with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, South Park Commons, Carta, Ledger, Circle, OpenSea, Uniswap, CoinList, FalconX, Polygon, UTA Ventures, Xoogler Ventures, Yield Guild Games, PoolSuite, Global Coin Research, Chainforest, Sfermion, A* Capital, Afropolitan DAO, BlueYard Capital, Broadhaven Capital Partners, Evolve, Flourish Ventures, GD1 Crypto, Green Bay Ventures, Hutt Capital, Moonbase Fund, Outliers VC DAO, Reach Capital, Script Capital, States DAO, Steel Perlot, Transpose Platform, Ulu Ventures, Unshackled Ventures, We3, 6th Man Ventures, Alberto Ibarguen, Alexander Zhang, Ali Moiz, Betty, Farokh, John Knopf, TIMEPieces, SuperRare Labs, Mel, Amir Carlisle, Sheldon, and TimShel.
Americana ($6.9M) | The first marketplace to buy and sell physical things as NFTs β with participation from Seven Seven Six, OpenSea, and Future.
CrowdPad ($2.5M) | Building a tokenized community-building tool on Solana β with participation from Infinity Ventures Crypto, Morningstar Ventures, Ocular Crypto, Serum, CreatorLed, Coin Operated Group, DXB Fund, Kosmos Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Lily Liu, Furqan Rydhan, Joyce Yang, Anirudh Pai, Julian Weisser, Akshay BD, Tanmay Bhat, Shradha Sharma, Ali Abdaal, Wong Joon Ian, and ODX.
YGG SEA ($500k) | The first subDAO of Yield Guild Games, a decentralized autonomous organization for acquiring and managing NFTs used in the metaverse β with participation from Solana Ventures.
Revise ($3.5M) | Enabling developers to build fun & engaging NFTs β with participation from Alpha Wave Global, Bharat Founders Fund, Sandeep Nailwal, Scott Lewis, Utsav Somani, Pranav Maheshwari, Rahul Chaudhary, and 8i Ventures.
Rivermen ($4.5M) | A gamified NFT collection β with participation from Mirana Ventures, Superchain Capital, Hashkey Capital, Bonfire Union, Robin Song, UOB Venture, Draper Dragon, Signum Capital, Zhu Deming, and ByC.
MYSO ($2.4M) | The leading DeFi protocol for zero-liquidation loans β with participation from Huobi Capital, Nexo, Wintermute, GSR, Hashkey Capital, CMT Digital, Nothing Research, Caballeros Capital, Advanced Blockchain AG, Ratio Ventures, Symbolic Capital Partners, Jabre Capital Partners, and Mentha Partners.
Stakes ($5.3M) | A social wagering platform for NFTs making sports betting more social, casual, and for everyone β with participation from Digital Currency Group, FBG Capital, CMS Holdings, LD Capital, Cadenza Ventures, Matrixport, Sterling Select, Sam Li, and Founders First.
Limitless Holding ($12.5M) | A global blockchain startup studio β with participation from Next Earth.
Dolo Finance | Debt capital to fuel your lending business.
SNACKCLUB ($9M) | The best gaming community on the blockchain β with participation from Animoca Brands, Ascensive Assets, Jump Crypto, Formless Capital, Mechanism Capital, OP Crypto, ROK Capital, Shima Capital, Fundamental Labs, LongHash Ventures, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Morningstar Ventures, Third Prime, Ellipti, Woodstock Fund, Genblock Capital, Merit Circle, Evernew Capital, PANONY, YGG SEA, D1 Ventures, Play Ventures, 8186 Capital, Cozomo de Medici, and CΒ² Ventures.
Crowdz ($10M) | A global receivables marketplace β with participation from Citi, Global Cleantech Capital, Bold Capital Partners, TFX Capital, and Augment Ventures.
IvoryPay | Π‘rypto payments and decentralized finance to help online businesses grow.
Reitio ($4M) | The worldβs first web3-native 3D CAD dApp β with participation from Moonwhale Ventures, Poolz Ventures, Almora Capital, Baksh Capital, NFV, Hashigo VC, and CoinW.
Mangata ($4.2M) | The one-stop-shop for trading Polkadot assets. A bridge between Ethereum and Polkadot β with participation from Altonomy, Polychain Capital, TRGC, Signum Capital, Headline, Figment Capital, ZMT Capital, AngelDAO, and Paribu Ventures.
OurSong ($7.5M) | Create, share & trade NFTs β with participation from Infinity Ventures Crypto, Animoca Brands, Cherubic Ventures, Circle, FBG Capital, Highstreet, HTC, Jump Trading, and North Island Ventures.
OneFootball ($300M) | The ultimate football media platform β news, scores, stats & more β with participation from Liberty City Ventures, Animoca Brands, Dapper Labs, DAH Beteiligungs, Quiet Capital, RIT Capital Partners, Senator Investment Group, and Alsara Investment Group.
Argent ($40M) | The most simple and secure Ethereum wallet β with participation from Index Ventures, Creandum, Animoca Brands, Jump Capital, Paradigm, Fabric Ventures, Metaplanet Holdings, and StarkWare.
Venly ($23M) | A blockchain-agnostic technology provider with wallet, NFT, and marketplace services, among others β with participation from Courtside Ventures, Transcend Fund, Fortino Capital, Alpaca VC, High-Tech Grunderfonds, Tioga Capital, LeadBlock Partners, Coinbase Ventures, David Majert, Plug and Play, Powerhouse Capital, and imec.istart.
Basement ($750k) | Ethereum APIs built for speed and scale β with participation from CapitalT VC, NP-Hard Ventures, Nalden, Robert Gaal, Kevin Kalle, Mills Miller, James Haycock, and Connect Ventures.
SX Network ($9.5M) | Scaling Polygon for betting, DeFi, and NFTs β with participation from CMCC Global, Hack VC, FJ Labs, Sybil Capital, Nascent, Polygon, Naval Ravikant, Sandeep Nailwal, Josh Hannah, Jack Herrick, Hart Lambur, and Alex Tapscott.
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T.E.A.M DAO ($5M) | A next-generation tech-enabled Guild 3.0 β with participation from Krust, Animoca Brands, GSG | Great South Gate, Shima Capital, Anti Fund, Algorand Foundation, GSR, NGC Ventures, Nexo, EX Capital, Coinhako, Octava , Rising Capital, Everse Capital, and Libra Capital Ventures.
CoreChain Technologies ($4.2M) | The first digital B2B payments network built on blockchain β with participation from Ulu Ventures, Connecticut Innovations, Bloccelerate VC, New Form Capital, Motivate VC, SaaS Ventures, Next Coast Ventures, and Angeles Investors.
Minka ($24M) | A provider of last-mile APIs and shared ledgers for national payment networks β with participation from Tiger Global Management, and Kaszek Ventures.
Rain ($6M) | The corporate card built for Web3 teams β with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Alliance DAO, Circle, Terraform Capital, Mischief, Coinbase Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Uniswap, Canonical Crypto, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Veradittakit, Shrisha Radhakrishna, Jeth Soetoyo, Clayton Gardner, Amber Atherton, Stanley Tang, Elizabeth Yin, Walter Chen, Fazal Yameen, Ezra Kebrab, Yunas Reguero, Cassandra Aaron, Deepak Chhugani, and Abir Liben.
Amulet Protocol ($6M) | Simple reliable insurance for everyone in Web3 β with participation from gumi Cryptos, Republic, Solana Ventures, DeFiance Capital, Animoca Brands, UOB Venture, Signum Capital, Mirana Ventures, NGC Ventures, LongHash Ventures, SevenX Ventures, Digital Strategies, CMT Digital, Matrixport, a41 Ventures, Solar Eco Fund, Daedalus Angel Syndicate, Cobo Wallet, Re7 Capital, NetZero Capital, Acala, and Serum.
Ondo Finance ($20M) | DeFi yelds, your terms β with participation from Wintermute, Tiger Global Management, Steel Perlot, Pantera Capital, GoldenTree Asset Management, Founders Fund, Flow Traders, and Coinbase Ventures.
Playmint ($4M) | A new game development studio, building category-defining games for the Web3 era β with participation from BITKRAFT Ventures, 1kx, Cherry Ventures, Ethereal Ventures, and Play Ventures.
double jump.tokyo ($25M) | A blockchain game developer and NFT solution provider β with participation from Amber Group, Jump Crypto, Access Ventures, Circle, Com2uS, Dentsu Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, JAFCO, PKO Investments, Polygon, Protocol Labs, Wemade, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Next Web Capital, Z Venture Capital, and Arriba Studio.
Mueshi ($3.3M) | Buy, sell, and fractionally invest in fine art NFTs β with participation from Harlem Capital, Presight Capital, CapitalT VC, Ted Lucas, Guggenheim Museum, PΓ©rez Art Museum Miami, and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson.
Blockmetrix ($20M) | A fast-growing US Bitcoin mining startup β with participation from CrossTower, and BankProv.
SakuraVerse ($1M) | A Web3 game infrastructure that develops and incubates multi-category games, accelerating the world's transition to Metaverse β with participation from KuCoin Ventures.
Tribal Credit ($22.7M) | A B2B payments and financing platform for emerging markets β with participation from SoftBank, Shima Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and CoinList.
BloXroute Labs | A blockchain distribution network to help your blockchains scale to thousands of transactions/second on-chain β with participation from IOBC Capital.
Holograph ($6.5M) | Omnichain NFT infrastructure for creators, developers, and enterprises β with participation from Courtside Ventures, Wave Financial, VaynerFund, Diplo, gmoneyNFT, Nadya Tolokonnikova (Pussy Riot), Justin Aversano, Arca, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Kenetic, Mirana Ventures, Company Ventures, Avalaunch, Soma Capital, Kosmos Ventures, Palm Drive Capital, Mechanism Capital, Daniel Arsham, Joshua Harding, Matt Bridges, Pharrell Williams, Nick Chong, Joe Jonas, Jen Stark, Lucien Smith, Cleon Peterson, Wendy Fisher, Larry Warsh, Andy Chorlian, and Daniel Armitage.
Cogni ($23M) | A digital bank that provides easy access to Web2 and Web3 services β with participation from Thirty-Five Ventures, Ship Capital, ROK Capital, Hanwha Asset Management, FTX, CaplinFO, Bluewatch Ventures, Alsara Investment Group, and Solana Ventures.
GamerGains ($5.8M) | Earn crypto playing your favorite games β with participation from Tiger Global Management, Winklevoss Capital, FTX, BlockFi, Cadenza Ventures, Republic, Electric Feel Entertainment, Lightbank, Shima Capital, Pluto Digital Assets, CMS Holdings, Alumni Ventures Group, Mirana Ventures, Third Prime, PJC, and Global Founders Capital.
Starling Bank ($168.5M) | A mobile banking platform that offers personal, joint, and business accounts β with participation from Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, Harald McPike, Qatar Investment Authority, and RPMI Railpen.
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