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Weekly Financing Trends, 22 Public Financing Events (4.24-4.28) | Cointime Weekly Financing Highlights

According to cointime's incomplete statistics, there were 22 corporate investment and financing events in the global crypto industry this week (4.24-4.28). Through cointime's combing and consolidation, the performance of disclosed primary financing in the crypto market is as follows:

Project Website Amount DateInvestors
Everdome https://everdome.io/$60 million4.25GEM Digital Limited
Zodia Custodyhttps://www.zodia.io/$36 million4.27SC Ventures, SBI Holdings,  etc.
Katmaihttps://www.katmaitech.com/$22 million4.24Starr Insurance Companies, NFL Super Bowl Champion Sidney Rice, etc.
iZUMi Financehttps://izumi.finance/home$22 million4.28Unicode Digital, NextGen Digital Venture, etc.
Thetanuts Financehttps://www.thetanuts.finance/$17 million4.24Polychain Capital, Hyperchain Capital, etc.
Fetch.aihttps://fetch.ai/$10 million4.27Bitget
Financing amount over $10 million

1. Infrastructure & Tools

Project Name: Fetch.ai

Website:https://fetch.ai/

Apr 27, Bitget has pledged $10 million for the development of Fetch.ai's ecosystem, which provides infrastructure to build autonomous services using AI agents. Fetch.ai's smart wallet features automation and integration with OpenAI's ChatGPT API, which surpassed 100 million users in January 2023. 

Project Name:Giddy 

Website:https://giddy.co/

Apr 27, crypto wallet startup Giddy has raised $6.9 million in funding from investors, including Pelion Venture Partners, Peak Capital Partners, Clarke Capital, and Fortnite co-creator Geremy Mustard.

Project Name:Cata Labs 

Website:https://catalabs.org/

Apr 27, Cata Labs, a blockchain infrastructure startup, has raised $4.2 million in seed funding at a “mid-eight figure valuation,” the company announced Wednesday. The fundraising round, which closed in March, was led by crypto venture-capital firm Spartan Group and included participation from Robot Ventures, Maven 11, Alchemy Ventures, HashKey Capital, Circle Ventures and Superscrypt, among others.

Project Name:Amboss Technologies 

Website:https://amboss.space/

Apr 25, Amboss Technologies, an Oregon-based crypto firm focused on Lightning Network, has raised $4 million in seed funding to provide data analytics to service providers maintaining the network. The round was led by Stillmark and includes participation from Valor Equity Partners, Draper Associates, Fulgur Ventures, and Ride Wave Ventures.

Project Name:MetaCRM 

Website:https://metacrm.inc/#/

Apr 25, MetaCRM has just raised US$2.5 million in a seed round led by Cherubic Ventures. Based in Taiwan, MetaCRM says its Web3 CRM products can connect on-chain and off-chain data to create blockchain-native solutions and analytics tools.

Project Name:D3 Labs 

Website:http://d3lab.xyz

Apr 26, Web3 startup D3 Labs announced that it has secured pre-seed funding with an undisclosed amount from a number of investors, including Saison Capital, Kinesys Capital, Arkana Capital, EX Capital, Qredo, DS/X Ventures, as well as UOB Venture Management and Signum Capital through the UVM Signum Blockchain fund.

Project Name:ARPA Network 

Website:https://www.arpanetwork.io/en-US

Apr 25, ARPA Network has announced a multimillion-dollar strategic investment from DWF Labs to transform the blockchain landscape and usher in new standards of privacy, security, and fairness. The collaboration aims to enhance ARPA’s research and development capability of cryptography and blockchain, establish a connection with DWF’s portfolio projects, and facilitate the wider utility of threshold signature scheme across multiple verticals in the blockchain industry. 

2. DeFi

Project Name:iZUMi Finance

Website:https://izumi.finance/home

Apr 28, iZUMi Finance, a Liquidity-as-a-Service (LaaS) decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, has made public their announcement that they have successfully completed a fundraising round totaling $22 million. Unicode Digital, NextGen Digital Venture, Bella Protocol, Incuba Alpha, and other investors contributed to this funding round, which is the biggest piece of financing news in the zkSync Era ecosystem.

Project Name:Thetanuts Finance

Website:https://www.thetanuts.finance/

Apr 24, Thetanuts Finance, a multi-chain structured products protocol, has closed a $17 million funding round led by Polychain Capital, Hyperchain Capital, and Magnus Capital. The funds will help the company create new partnerships with layer 1 and layer 2 networks, liquidity providers, blockchain foundations, market makers, and exchanges. 

Project Name:Credora

Website:https://credora.io/

Apr 27, Fintech startup Credora, which focuses on decentralized finance (DeFi), has raised $6m in a strategic funding round featuring Coinbase and S&P Global as major investors. Credora aims to underwrite and monitor borrowers by validating financial information in real-time while keeping sensitive details private. 

Project Name:DFlow

Website:https://dflow.net/

Apr 25, DeFi protocol DFlow has raised $5.5 million in a financing round led by Framework Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Circle Ventures, and others. DFlow allows market makers to purchase order flow directly from wallet applications, with the guarantee that the market maker will provide execution at the best price. 

Project Name:Teahouse Finance

Website:https://teahouse.finance/

Apr 24, Teahouse Finance raised $5 million in its recent funding round to solve DeFi’s concentrated liquidity problem, according to its recent funding announcement.

3. NFT & Web3 Creation & Metaverse

Project Name:Everdome 

Website:https://everdome.io/

Apr 25, Bahama-based digital assets investment firm GEM Digital Limited (GEM) has increased its investment commitment in UAE-based metaverse startup Everdome from $10 million to $60 million.

Project Name:Katmai 

Website:https://www.katmaitech.com/

Apr 24, Katmai, a startup that aims to revolutionize the remote work landscape with a new 3D virtual office platform, has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round led by Starr Insurance Companies and featuring NFL Super Bowl Champion Sidney Rice among other investors. 

Project Name:Transmira 

Website:https://transmira.com/

Apr 28, nChain, a world leader in Web3 and Blockchain technologies, announced that it will invest $4 million and take a 20% equity stake in Transmira, a revolutionary metaverse platform. nChain's investment offer follows the announcement of a strategic partnership reported in February.

Project Name:Tribe3

Website:https://tribe3.xyz/

Apr 27, Tribe3, a social and gamified decentralized NFT futures exchange, has raised US$2.1 million from leading Web3 VCs and strategic investors to drive the next phase of its development, including launching public beta (app.tribe3.xyz) on 3rd May 2023, accelerating growth, and scaling up operations.

4. Others

Project Name:Zodia Custody

Website:https://www.zodia.io/

Apr 27, Zodia Custody, a crypto-focused subsidiary of Standard Chartered, has raised $36 million in funding from SC Ventures and SBI Holdings, among other investors, as it pursues international expansion. The funds will be used to boost geographic expansion, increase token coverage, and improve interchange and off-exchange settlement services to protect client assets traded on crypto exchanges. 

Project Name:TinyTap

Website:https://www.tinytap.com/content/

Apr 25, Educational technology startup TinyTap, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, has raised $8.5m in funding for staff expansion and product development. The company offers a platform for user-generated educational content and has incorporated blockchain technology into its services, including more tokenized content via non-fungible token collections. The funding round was backed by Sequoia China, Shima Capital, Polygon, Liberty City Ventures, Kingsway Capital, and GameFi Ventures. 

Project Name:Love Hate Inu

Website:https://www.lovehateinu.com/en

Apr 28, Love Hate Inu, the hot new meme coin, has raised over $7.7 million from enthusiastic investors who are excited about its unique vote-to-earn feature and its potential for significant growth.

Project Name:Secro

Website:https://secro.io/

Apr 28, Secro, a Wilmington, DE-based provider of a digital bill-of-lading platform known as Secro e-Bill, raised $3.6M in Seed funding. The round was led by Augment Ventures alongside TMV, with participation from Kluz Ventures and Grit and Gumption Ventures.

Project Name:Libraro

Apr 25, Libraro, a blockchain startup, has secured £2m equity funding for its platform that connects publishing houses and literary agents with new writing projects. The funding came from blockchain software and consultancy firm nChain, which took a 20% stake. 

Project Name:CV Wallet

Website:https://www.cvwallet.com/

Apr 25, CV Wallet, the skills-based hiring platform that harnesses the latest Web3 and AI technologies, has raised $1.1 million in an angel investment round. By utilising the latest Web3 and AI technologies, CV Wallet’s mission is to create a fairer, more efficient and trusted hiring ecosystem.

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