Vienna-based investment and trading platform Bitpanda has raised a USD52 million Series A funding round, Europe’s largest series A funding round of 2020, led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures.
More than 80 per cent of equity funding for UK blockchain startups has taken place since 2017, according to a new report by MMC Ventures, with bitcoin’s recent price rises reflecting increased adoption. MMC’s newly released report on blockchain and crypto revealed that 60 per cent of UK blockchain companies have raised
HDFH has formally launched the Global Digital Bank Consortium Blockchain Investment Fund at the 2nd China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai. Initiated by HDFH, Yillion Bank and Zhongguancun Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (ZVCA) in collaboration with domestic and international investors, the new fund will invest in digital
Blockchain for private equity firm Swarm has partnered with decentralised autonomous organisation MakerDAO to integrate the Dai token into the Swarm platform. Swarm writes that this will give Swarm’s community of accredited investors a greater capability to lock in crypto prices, using the world’s first decentralised stablecoin on the
Alternative fund manager Abacus Capital’s Hogi Hyun is stepping into the crypto world to bring investors a blockchain and tokenised investment grade diamond investment opportunity. Abacus was established in Singapore in 1996 and has some USD1 billion in assets in special situations and private equity investments in commodities, natural resources
March this year saw Robert Mirsky, then Global Head of Hedge Funds at KPMG, become Global Head of Asset Management and UK Managing Partner at EisnerAmper. Mirsky was also charged with opening EisnerAmper’s first UK office and now presides over a small but fast-growing team. The firm is better known
Swarm, the blockchain for private equity, announced that the recently tokenised Andra Fund will be made available to its investors. The firm writes that through the Andra Fund, Swarm investors will be able to utilise any of four cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Swarm, or the Dai stablecoin) to invest in one
There is a sense of optimism in Bermuda that the success it has enjoyed over the years in respect of the ILS industry can, over the coming years, be replicated in the cryptocurrency and blockchain arena. ILS fund managers like the fact that Bermuda has a lot of professionals working
The team behind Swarm Fund, a decentralised capital marketplace that provides cryptocurrency investors with access to institutional style investments, has raised USD5.5 million through its public token sale. Swarm has appointed serial tech entrepreneur Philipp Pieper as its CEO. The firm has also had what it calls its first ‘liquid
Bitcoin expert Nicholas Gregory, founder and CEO of London-based cryptocurrency enabler CommerceBlock, comments on recent volatility in cryptocurrency prices… Prices of digital currencies have been on a rollercoaster ride lately but this violent volatility is actually all a bit of a sideshow. The simple reason is that plenty of
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