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Figure unveils solution for private companies to raise, manage and trade equity from a single platform

Figure Technologies has launched a blockchain-powered solution that allows private companies to raise, manage, and trade equity on a single platform. Figure Equity Solutions is a full-stack equity management platform that supports seamless primaries and secondaries with automatic cap table updates pre-and-post-event.  To showcase the technology, the company successfully closed

Chainalysis raises USD100m at a USD4.2bn valuation

Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, has secured a USD100 million Series E financing led by Coatue, bringing its valuation to USD4.2 billion. Previous investors Benchmark, Accel, Addition, Dragoneer, Durable Capital Partners, and 9Yards Capital increased their investment in the company, and Altimeter, Blackstone, GIC, Pictet, Sequoia Heritage, and SVB Capital

Maven 11 Blockchain Venture Fund II raises EUR40m

Dutch blockchain investment fund Maven 11 Capital has raised EUR40 million which it will invest in start- and scale-ups creating innovative financial services and building Web 3.0. using blockchain technology.  The new fund is a direct response to the explosive demand for investment in, and mentoring of, start-ups in decentralised

Fetch.ai launches Mainnet v2.0

Fetch.ai, a Cambridge-based artificial intelligence lab building an open-access decentralised machine learning network for smart infrastructure, has launched v2.0 of its Mainnet with 30 validators, including Outlier Ventures, Forbole, and InfStones.   The v2.0 of Fetch.ai Mainnet is the next step towards building an AI-powered blockchain that allows businesses and

Paradigm leads USD30m Series B funding round in Fireblocks

Fireblocks has raised USD30 million in Series B funding, bringing its cumulative fundraising to USD46 million. This round was led by Paradigm with participation from existing investors, Cyberstarts, Tenaya Capital, Swisscom, Galaxy Digital, Digital Currency Group (DCG), and Cedar Hill Capital. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…

Aspire Technology raises USD2.4m for secure digital asset creation blockchain platform

Aspire Technology, the developer of the Aspire digital asset creation platform, has closed both a USD1.175 million equity round, and a USD1.23 million private token presale for a total of more than USD2.4 million of new capital, according to Aspire technology chairman, Michael Terpin,  Terpin led the company’s pre-seed USD260,000

Blockchain

VNX completes first blockchain tech VC deal in Europe

VNX Exchange, a Luxembourg-based digital asset investment platform, has completed the first VC deal in Europe utilising blockchain tech. The deal sees the issue of EUR1.1 million of asset-backed tokens linked to the investment into Streami Inc, a South Korean blockchain company. Issued on the Ethereum blockchain ERC-20, the asset-backed

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RIT invests in COSIMO Ventures tokenised fund

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has become the first US university to invest in Cosimo Ventures’s new, blockchain-focused tokenised fund, Cosimo X. Based in Boston and Dublin, Cosimo Ventures is an investment firm focused on deep tech companies. This is the first time that any university in the US has

Blockchain Valley Ventures launches virtual deal marketplace for startup funding

Blockchain Valley Ventures (BVV), a blockchain technology-focused venture capital firm, in collaboration with Delio, a provider of private markets investment technology, has launched the BVV Dealroom – a virtual deal marketplace for blockchain startups and investors. The new platform – one of the first of its kind in the blockchain space

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