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Last week 37 projects announced fundraising rounds:
Hulk Labs | Connecting players, data, and capital in the Play-to-Earn economy β with participation from DV Group, and Tokens.com.
Zebedee ($35M) | Develops software and infrastructure to introduce Bitcoin and Lightning support into digital experiences and environments. β with participation from Kingsway Capital, The Raine Group, Square Enix, Lakestar, and Initial Capital.
Halborn ($90M) | Award-winning ethical blockchain hackers to secure your stack end-to-end β with participation from Summit Partners, Castle Island Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Brevan Howard, SkyVision Capital, Third Prime, and Fenwick & West.
XLD Finance ($13M) | A borderless decentralized ecosystem that provides financial services across emerging economies β with participation from Infinity Ventures Crypto, Dragonfly Capital, Yield Guild Games, Digital Currency Group, Circle, Advance.ai, Blockhy.pe, Emfarsis, Firex Capital, Mentha Partners, Morningstar Ventures, Openspace Ventures, Sfermion, Shima Capital, Sparq, Token Suite, Transcend Fund, TrustToken, Berkeley University of California, UOB Venture, Woo Network, Yolo Investments, IDG Capital, Insignia Ventures Partners, and Integra Partners.
Metabit ($2M) | Golden Bridge Capital, Eagle Capital Management, DG Capital, Blackstone, McKinsey & Company, CRIC, MCA, TD Bank β with participation from Golden Bridge Capital, Eagle Capital Management, DG Capital, Blackstone, McKinsey & Company, CRIC, MCA, and TD Bank.
veToken Finance | Boost rewards without sacrificing liquidity β with participation from Degen DAO, OWL Ventures, 2x, Mr. Block, Isaac Zu, and Nick Tong.
Sunscreen ($4.5M) | Privacy engine of the new web β with participation from Polychain Capital, Northzone, Coinbase Ventures, dao5, Naval Ravikant, Michael Egorov, Tux Pacific, Lattice, Gaingels, Konstantin Lomashuk, Vasiliy Shapovalov, Omer Shlomovits, Viktor Bunin, and Lisa Cuesta Bunin.
Travel Coin ($35M) | A reward for customers In restaurants, hotels, And more β with participation from GEM Global Emerging Markets.
Jakaverse ($3M) | Virtual world beyond imagination β with participation from Titan Capital.
Meow ($22M) | The compliance-first, all-cash way for corporate treasuries to access crypto market yields β with participation from Tiger Global Management, QED Investors, and FTX.
Bylines ($4M) | A wallet-wallet messaging app for Web 3.0 β with participation from Elad Gil, Scalar Capital, Volt Capital, Caffeinated Capital, ConsenSys Mesh, Hash3, Mischief, Dylan Field, and Scott Belsky.
5ire ($100M) | A Layer 1 sustainable blockchain with a mission to bring a shift from for-profit to a for-benefit economy β with participation from Sram & Mram Limited.
Realm ($10M) | A mobile-first, play-to-earn, social impact-driven Metaverse β with participation from LDA Capital.
Zamp ($25M) | Banking and payments for the global economy β with participation from Sequoia Capital, Dara Khosrowshahi, Marcelo Claure, Sandeep Nailwal, Gokul Rajaram, Kirthiga Reddy, Ramanathan RV, and Laxman Narasimhan.
Empiric Network | Decentralized & composable data infrastructure β with participation from Variant, Alameda Research, CMT Digital, Flow Traders, FTX, Gemini, StarkWare, Sandeep Nailwal, Road Capital, Marc Bhagarva, Luke Pearson, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Tekin Salimi, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner.
MonkeyLeague ($24M) | Build your dream, compete against real players, and climb the ranks β with participation from Griffin Gaming Partners, Maverick Ventures Israel, Drive by DraftKings, Vgames, Max Stealth, and 6th Man Ventures.
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ZKX ($4.5M) | A permissionless protocol for derivatives built on StarkNet β with participation from StarkWare, Alameda Research, Amber Group, Crypto.com Capital, Huobi Capital, Hashkey Capital, OrangeDAO, DWeb3 Capital, AngelDAO, Caballeros Capital, Cluster Capital, and Gate.io.
Contango ($4M) | A decentralized exchange bringing expirable futures to DeFi β with participation from Juan Guillen, Michael Kong, Mika Honkasalo, Windra Thio, Yenwen Feng, 0xbrainjar, Nick Avramov, Francesco Renzi, Alex Smirnov, Mirza Uddin, Eric Chen, Wil Barnes, Joshua Lim, Larry Cermak, Nicolas RΓ©mond, Julien Bouteloup, LoΓ―c RozΓ©, DeFi Dad, ParaFi Capital, dlab, Advanced Blockchain AG, Coinbase Ventures, Spartan Group, AngelDAO, Cumberland, GSR, Amber Group, and CMS Holdings.
Hang ($16M) | Building the future of membership and loyalty for brands β with participation from Paradigm, Tiger Global Management, Thirty Five Ventures (35V), Night Ventures, Alexandre Arnault, Green Bay Ventures, Shrug Capital, Good Friends, Leore Avidar, Eberg Capital, Dave Heath, Scott Belsky, Impatient Ventures, Red Sea Venture, and K5 Global
Dexilon ($2M) | A next-generation decentralized derivatives exchange β with participation from GSR, YouBi Capital, Fenbushi Capital, LedgerPrime, and Cipholio Ventures.
Scorefam ($25M) | A decentralized sports gaming platform for sport lovers β with participation from GEM Global Emerging Markets.
Supermojo ($6M) | Making NFTs more accessible β with participation from DRW Venture Capital, Intersection Growth Partners, Neuberger Berman, Brevan Howard , Sfermion, Arca, Gemini , Everyrealm, Arrington Capital, BlockFi, Circle, Crossbeam, Draper Associates, FJ Labs, FBG Capital, OP Crypto, Red Beard Ventures, and Ripple.
Hologram ($6.5M) | A self-expression primitive for the open metaverse β with participation from Polychain Capital, Nascent, Inflection, NeonDao, Quantstamp, Foothill Ventures, YAT, South Park Commons, Arweave, Mike Shinoda, Ken Cron, Kalos, bitcoinPalmer, cozy, Naveen Jain, Sam Williams, Sam Sends, Eric Witscher, Richard Ma, Don Ho, Jimmy Xue, Marc Weinstein, Osama Khan, Joe Greenstein, Srinivas Narayanan, Julian Gay, Jonathan Mak, and Nop Jiarathanakul.
zeroDAO ($1.3M) | Enabling gasless Bitcoin bridging across various networks β with participation from Magnus Capital, LedgerPrime, Arthur Hayes, and Loong Wang.
CLUB ($3.1M) | Become a football club owner and compete against owners around the world β with participation from Zee Prime Capital, Atka, Merit Circle, CitizenX Crypto Ventures, Moonlanding Ventures, and Petrock Capital.
DaoLens ($5M) | From onboarding to activation to contributor management, we take care of it all β with participation from Nexus Venture Partners, Better Ventures, iSeed II, Balaji Srinivasan, Gokul Rajaram, Kunal Bahl, Rohit Bansal, Kunal Shah, Sandeep Nailwal, Raj Gokal, Simon Doherty, Arjun Sethi, Alexander Erikstrup, Kunal Bahl, Rohit Bansal, Harsh Rajat, Tracheopteryx, Aakash Kumar, Maninder Gulati, Sumit Gupta, Neeraj Khandelwal, Manish Agarwal, Dean Carlson, Narendra Rathi, Vishal Gupta, Varun Khurana, Rahul Rai, Sanat Rao, Puneet Kumar, Suhas Motwani, Vaibhav Vardhan, Nakul Gupta, Shiva Singh Sangwan, Lukas Vogel, Ankur Warikoo, Abhishek Patil, Udayan Walvekar, Scott Fitsimones, Swapnil Jain, Ashray Iyengar, Suryansh Kumar, Peter Hoang, Giridhar Malpani, Amiya Pathak, Piyush Jain, Rahul Dalmia, Jithendra Vepa, Anil Advani, Mriganka Pattnaik, Rohan Vijay, and Mukul Chaware.
Farcaster ($30M) | A sufficiently decentralized social network β with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Standard Crypto, Elad Gil, 1confirmation, Scalar Capital, First Round Capital, Volt Capital, A_capital, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Coinbase Ventures, Mischief , Haystack, Ribbit Capital, Chapter One, Multicoin Capital, Offline Ventures, Archetype, Canonical Crypto, Proof Group, Floodgate, Balaji Srinivasan, 6529, Ray Tonsing, and Ansa Capital.
Inflection Points ($12.6M) | The #1 employment & training company in Bitcoin & Crypto β with participation from Thiel Capital, Fifth Down Capital, Rose Park Advisors, Blockchange Ventures, Third Prime, XYZ Venture, Colin Anderson, Matteo Franceschetti, Brent Saunders, and Marc Roberts.
DRAUP ($1.5M) | A platform bringing maximum value to Digital Fashion's consumers and creators β with participation from Variant, The Chernin Group, Firstminute Capital, FlamingoDAO, NeonDao, Andy Weissman, Cozomo de Medici, gmoney, Ian Rogers, Trevor McFedries, Amber Atherton, Ashleigh Schap, and Joel Shamash.
Arkive ($9.7M) | The worldβs first decentralized physical museum β with participation from Offline Ventures, The Chernin Group, NFX, Freestyle Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Not Boring Capital, Precursor Ventures, Chainforest, Coil, Julia Lipton, Joe McCann, Adamant Ventures, Awesome People Ventures, Reverb Ventures, Darling Ventures, Parade Ventures, Paul Veradittakit, Leore Avidar, Spice Capital, Chris Cantino, Marty Bell, Flexx Chapman, Commodore, Ethan Beard, Sarah Gibson, and Saltwater.
Stakefair ($670k) | The DeFi way to play with money β with participation from Adaverse, Kepple Africa Ventures, Canza Finance, Voltron Capital, EchoVC Partners, Nehi Igbinijesu, Oluchi Enebeli, Clement Hugbo, Timi Ajiboye, Tomiwa Lasebikan, Thrive Africa Community, Nestcoin, and Peter Kisadha.
Pulley ($40M) | Equity management for hypergrowth startups β with participation from Stripe, Elad Gil, Founders Fund, Avichal Garg, Jack Altman, and Sherwin Gandhi.
DOSI | All-in-one publishing platform for NFTs β with participation from SoftBank, CJ ENM, Naver Webtoon, Naver, LINE Games, YG PLUS, Hashed, K Auction, Shinsegae, and Naver Z.
Polysynth ($3M) | An open, decentralized, and cross-chain platform for leveraged long or short perpetuals and advanced crypto-financial products β with participation from LedgerPrime, QCP Capital, and Lux Capital.
JetLearn ($1.2M) | Web 3.0 online academy for primary and secondary school-age children β with participation from INSEAD Angel Group, Humera Afzal, and Ritu Narayan.
Quadrata ($7.5M) | Universal identity for Metaverse & DeFi β with participation from Dragonfly Capital, Franklin Templeton Investments, GSR Ventures, OrangeDAO, Fellows Fund, GreatPoint Ventures, August Capital, Balaji Srinivasan, Ryan Selkis, Mathieu Nouzareth, Zeneca, Wilson Lee, and Abra.
Onramp Invest ($7M) | The only cryptoasset solution for advisors by advisors β with participation from JAM FINTOP, and EJF Capital.
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