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Last Week's Financing Trends, 28 Public Financing Events (4.3-4.9) | Cointime Weekly Financing Highlights

According to cointime's incomplete statistics, there were more than 28 investment and financing events in the global crypto industry last week (4.3-4.9), with the total disclosed financing amount exceeding $200 million. Through cointime's combing and consolidation, the performance of disclosed primary financing in the crypto market is as follows:

1. Infrastructure & Tools

Project Name:LayerZero Labs

Website:https://layerzero.network/

Apr 4, interoperability protocol LayerZero Labs has raised $120 million in a series B funding round featuring 33 investors including Christie’s auction house, NFT platform OpenSea and Samsung’s next-gen investment unit.

Project Name:Li.Fi 

Website:https://li.fi/

Apr 4, multichain liquidity and data gateway provider Li.Fi has raised $17.5 million in a Series A fundraise co-led by crypto-native investment firms CoinFund and Superscrypt.

Project Name:PolyHedra

Website:https://polyhedra.network/

Apr 4,ZK infrastructure startup Polyhedra Network announced the closing of a $15 million Pre-A round of funding, and the following day, Polyhedra Network announced the release of the Alpha version of the zkBridge mainnet on zkBridge.com, which now supports 10 blockchain networks including BNB Chain, Ethereum and Arbitrum and more.

Project Name:Astria

Website:https://www.astria.org/

Apr 5, modular blockchain Astria has raised $5.5 million in seed funding to develop its shared sequencer network. The funding round was led by Maven 11 and included contributions from various prominent crypto investment firms like 1kx, Delphi Capital and Figment Capital.

Project Name:Satsuma

Website:https://www.satsuma.xyz/

Apr 5, Satsuma, a blockchain data indexing platform, announced that it raised $5 million in a seed funding round co-led by Initialized Capital and Archetype. Other investors included OpenSea, Y Combinator, Homebrew and South Park Commons.

Project Name:Opside

Website:https://opside.network/

Apr 6,  Opside, a three-layer infrastructure platform providing ZK-rollup-as-a-service (ZK-RaaS), has raised $4 million in a seed round led by Web3.com Ventures, with participation from other notable investors in the crypto industry.

Project Name:Zealy

Website:https://www.zealy.ch/

Apr 6, Paris-based web3 community engagement platform Crew3 has rebranded to Zealy and announced a $3.5M pre-seed funding round led by Redalpine. Other investors include Connect Ventures, Aglaé Ventures, Kima Ventures, Purple, STATION F, Founders Future, Pareto Holdings, and industry experts.

Project Name:Franklin

Website:https://serotonin.co/

Apr 4, crypto payroll company Franklin, developed internally at Web3 marketing firm Serotonin, has raised $2.9 million in a seed round co-led by Gumi Cryptos Capital and CMT Digital, with backing from crypto notable Arca.

Project Name:Mutiny Wallet

Website:https://mutinywallet.com/

Apr 5, Mutiny Wallet, a web-first Bitcoin wallet, has raised just over $300,000 in pre-seed funding to build a user-friendly Bitcoin wallet with exceptional privacy, scalability, and accessibility.

Project Name:Datachain

Website:https://www.datachain.jp/

Apr 7,  Datachain has received a grant from the Interchain Foundation to upgrade the functionality of IBC-Solidity, the Solidity execution of the IBC protocol that links high-usage blockchains globally. The Interchain Foundation is a Swiss non-profit organization dedicated to advancing decentralized software frameworks and developing the interchain, a network of autonomous blockchains connected by the Interchain stack.

Project Name:Bitmama

Website:https://bitmama.io/

Apr 6,blockchain-based payment platform Bitmama, founded by Nigerian entrepreneur Ruth Iselema, has secured funding in a pre-seed round to improve financial transactions in Africa through the use of cryptocurrency.

2. DeFi

Project Name:M^ZERO

Website:https://m0.xyz/

Apr 5,M^ZERO has raised a $22.5 million seed round for M^ZERO, a decentralized infrastructure layer for digital asset value transfer, led by Pantera Capital with participation from Road Capital, AirTree, Standard Crypto, SALT Fund and others.

Project Name:SwissBorg 

Website:https://swissborg.com/

Apr 3, crypto investment platform, SwissBorg, has accumulated more than CHF 20 million from more than 16,000 investors in its Series A fundraise. SwissBorg is a major European player in crypto, having acquired over a million app users and over 150m in revenues since launching their crypto investment app in 2021.

Project Name:Bitget

Website:https://www.bitget.com/zh-CN/

Apr 4,Bitget closed a $10 million strategic funding round.Bitget is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange founded in 2018 that offers spot, derivatives and follow-on trading.Bitget previously closed a $10 million Series B round in July 2022.

Project Name:Nibiru

Website:https://nibiru.fi/

Apr 4,Nibiru Chain, a decentralized finance (DeFi) hub, closed an $8.5 million seed funding round at a $100 million valuation, co-led by Tribe Capital, Republic Capital, NGC Ventures and Original Capital. The startup will launch its mainnet and stablecoin this summer.

Project Name:Acre 

Website:https://www.acresoftware.com/

Apr 3, Acre, a London, UK-based provider of a platform for mortgage intermediaries, raised £6.5M in late seed funding. The McPike Global Family Office (MGFO) joined returning investors Aviva and Founders Factory.

Project Name:Steer Protocol

Website:https://steer.finance/

Apr 6,  Steer Protocol announced today that it has successfully raised $1.5 million in a recent seed investment round. The round was led by Druid Ventures, with participation from Republic Capital and Big Brain Holdings, among other notable VC firms and angel investors.

3. Funds

Project Name:Token Fund

Website:https://www.bitkraft.vc/

Apr 7,  gaming-focused venture capital firm Bitkraft raised $220.6 million for its second "token fund," which had a total target of $240 million, according to a March 30 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm launched a similar fund in October 2021, with $75 million in committed capital that was seeking to invest in blockchain gaming and digital entertainment.

Project Name:OP Crypto

Website:https://www.opcrypto.vc/

Apr 7,  the OP Crypto Fund of Funds (FoF), which calls itself the “first crypto ventures fund of funds focused on investing in emerging managers on a global-scale”,  has raised $28 million. David Gan, a director at the fund, said 22 people had invested since April last year when this fund first launched.

Project Name:Delphi Labs

Website:https://delphidigital.io/labs

Apr 4, Delphi Labs, the incubation arm of crypto research firm Delphi Digital, has raised $13.5 million in a round led by P2P, the creator of liquid staking provider Lido, with participation from noted investment firm Jump Crypto.

The funds will go toward building out an accelerator that aims to foster the growth of teams working to launch Web3 projects. The raise was Delphi’s first time courting outside investments.

4. NFT & Web3 Creation & Metaverse

Project Name:RACA

Website:https://www.raca3.com/

Apr 6, market maker and investment firm DWF Labs has invested $16 million in Web3 company RACA, a deal that includes purchasing an unspecified amount of RACA tokens. The funding will help RACA continue its goal of becoming an expansive Web3 gaming ecosystem.

Project Name:Social Future

Website:https://socialfutures.org.au/

Apr 7,  Social Future, an AI-driven social metaverse company, is excited to announce that it has successfully raised $6 million in funding. Founded by technologists, artists, and game builders, SocialFuture is backed by top crypto investors including SNZ, Everest Venture Group, Folius Ventures, Y2Z Ventures, Mask Network, Tess Ventures, Stratified Capital, Mindfulness Capital and strategic funds backed by public companies.

Project Name:Ecosapiens

Website:https://www.ecosapiens.xyz/

Apr 5,  Non-fungible token (NFT) project Ecosapiens has raised $3.5 million in seed funding towards its mission to make blockchain collectibles more environmentally conscious. The round was led by Web3 fund Collab + Currency, with participation from investors like founder of digital fashion company 9dcc gmoney, vice president and head of corporate development at Coinbase Ventures Shan Aggrawal, former chief operating officer of Moonbirds Ryan Carson and others.

Project Name:Alteon.io

Website:https://alteon.io/

Apr 7,  Florida Innovation Capital, a venture fund committed to supporting economic growth in the Sunshine State, is leading seed funding for tech startup Third Summit. FIC has committed $2.75M of the $4.5M funding for Third Summit to continue expanding its flagship SaaS platform, Alteon.io, whose recent partnerships and market reception exemplify the type of company FIC wants to support in Florida.

Project Name:Sensorium

Website:https://sensoriumxr.com/

Apr 6,  DWF Labs has committed to a purchase of $2.5 million worth of Sensorium's native token SENSO. Sensorium is the company behind the world's first AI-driven metaverse Sensorium Galaxy.

5. Others

Project Name:Finst

Website:https://finst.com/

Apr 5,crypto derivatives platform Deribit's parent company Sentillia has led a 4 million euro ($4.4 million) seed funding round into Netherlands-based cryptocurrency exchange Finst.

Project Name:Patientory

Website:https://patientory.com/

Apr 6,Blockchain-based healthcare startup Patientory has raised an additional $1.5 million to fund the launch of its HIPAA-compliant consumer app and secure enterprise portal.

Project Name:Lore

Website:https://lore.xyz/

Apr 6,Lore closed a $4 million strategic funding round for Lore, the co-ownership platform for the Web3 collective, led by Multicoin Capital. The funding will support new use cases and expansion to other blockchains beyond ethereum, starting with Polygon and Solana.

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