Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 1 year ago
Big four accounting firm Ernst & Young (EY) has selected 16 early-stage startups to join its EY Foundry Cohort 5 program to propel disruptive solutions in four areas. (Read More)
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
Crypto Startup, MoonPay has decided to launch its NFT platform in partnership with Universal Pictures, Fox Corporation and other brands too. This NFT platform will be called HyperMint. CEO of MoonPay, Ivan Soto-Wright, on June 21 has announced the la...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
According to “two people familiar with the matter,” the cryptocurrency lending company Celsius is working with the financial giant Citigroup in order to get advice on how to handle the firm’s financial hardship. The sourc...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 1 year ago
Wildcard Alliance, a new Web3.0 gaming startup has $46 million in a Series A funding round led by Paradigm Capital.
Wildcard Alliance is a relatively new subsidiary spun out of Playful Studios, creator of the Lucky's Tale game series and Creativer...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 1 year ago
Solana, one of the biggest Layer-1 blockchain protocols, through its subsidiaries Solana Ventures and Solana Foundation, has launched a $100 million fund to back startups in the South Korea Web3.0 ecosystem.
As by TechCrunch, drawing on the exclu...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 1 year ago
Hong Kong startup BEAM+ LAB is hosting an interactive exhibition at the Haus of Contemporary from June 8 to 26 to celebrate the launch of CRYPTYQUES, non-fungible token (NFT) collectables based on classic Hong Kong movies.
The organiser holds an ex...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, has announced the launch of its own venture capital fund. Binance Labs, the cryptocurrency exchange’s venture capital arm, has raised $500 million to launch a fund that would invest in...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 1 year ago
Oceans & Us announced on Sunday that it plans to raise $1.2 million in funding to clean up oceans worldwide. The Dubai based non-profit organization wants to raise funds by selling 10,000 generative non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and launching a new...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
California-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has its fourth crypto fund, the Crypto Fund IV, as it prepares to invest fully into and Web3.0 startups.
While the current climate in the digital currency ecosystem is one that doe...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
A report by CNBC media outlets shows that the has been planning to acquire brokerage startups. The new interest comes after the crypto exchange recently expanded into stock trading.
Sources familiar with negotiations have disclosed that the Bahama...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Crypto Valley Venture Capital (CV VC), a Switzerland-headquartered private venture capital company, announced on Monday that it has launched African Blockchain Early-Stage Fund that targets blockchain startups from across the continent.
The venture...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
As many in Africa continue to adopt crypto and blockchain, more venture funding flowed into the continent in Q1 2022 than in Q1 2021, according to a new report by blockchain investment firm Crypto Valley Venture Capital (CV VC) and Standard Bank.The...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
David Marcus, former cryptocurrency head at Meta, is launching Lightspark, another payments company that will use crypto as its central payment tool. The startup, which will have Marcus at the helm as CEO, also features some of Meta’s former e...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The African startup, Mara, recently said it has raised about $23 million in funding from organizations ranging from Coinbase Ventures to individual angel investors like Amit Bhatia and Hamad Alhoimaizi. Mara has also partnered with the Central Africa...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The African fintech industry has grown rapidly over the past few years and this has caught the attention of some well-resourced venture capital (VC) firms. As one would expect, Nigerian fintech startups have dominated the continent in terms of funds...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Privacy-centric startup Nym Technologies secured $300 million in financing from numerous venture capitalists, incentivising developers to leverage Nym's decentralised infrastructure into its ecosystem.
As some blockchain protocols suffer from sensi...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Tactic, a rapidly growing crypto accounting platform based in New York, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $2.6 million in a funding round.
The funding was co-led by Founders Fund, a San Francisco based venture capital firm, and Ramp, a fina...