Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 02 – 08, Aug 2021

This week's biggest funding round

MakersPlace raised $30M in a Series A funding round from Bessemer Venture Partners, Pantera Capital, Uncork Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Sony Music Entertainment.

MakersPlace is a marketplace to discover and collect truly unique digital creations by the world's most creative minds.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Krystal DeFi raised $6.6M in a Seed funding round from Hashed, Signum Capital, BlockTower Capital, HyperChain Capital, Arrington Capital, LD Capital, Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance), Arche Fund (Coin98 Ventures), ArkStream Capital.

A multi-chain platform to easily access popular DeFi services and manage NFTs. Krystal allows users to create a Multi-Chain wallet (iOS and Android), where they can store, send and receive tokens on the Solana network and other EVM-compatible networks (eg. Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain).

Onramp Invest raised $6M in a Seed funding round from Coinbase Ventures, Eterna Capital, Galaxy Digital, Gemini Frontier Fund, Ritholtz Wealth Management, WisdomTree.

Onramp Invest is an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) technology company providing access to cryptoassets for registered investment advisers.

Other investment rounds

Nakji Network raised $8.8M in a  funding round from Animoca Brands, Coin Merge Strategy (CMS), Primitive, One Block Capital Advisory, Panony.

Nakji Network is an indexing protocol for organizing blockchain data.

Gamestarter raised $390K in a Public sale  funding round from .

Gamestarter is a NFT-based crowdfunding platform & marketplace.

Messari raised $21M in a Series A  funding round from Point72 Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Blockchain com (Blockchain Ventures).

Messari is a cryptocurrency data and analytics firm. It's mission is to promote transparency and smarter decision-making in the cryptoasset community. Their open-source data library helps researchers, investors, and regulators make sense of the industry.

TrustToken raised $12.5M in a  funding round from BlockTower Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Alameda Research.

TrustToken is an operator of decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol TrueFi and stablecoin TUSD that is a USD-backed ERC20 stablecoin that is fully collateralized, legally protected, and transparently verified by third-party attestations.

Lithium Finance raised $766.7K in a Public sale  funding round from .

Lithium Finance is the first decentralized data oracle solution that uses collective intelligence to regularly price illiquid assets.

RedStone raised $100K in a  funding round from KR1 plc.

RedStone is a next-generation cross-chain data oracle providing pricing data for financial protocols.

Sense Finance raised $5.2M in a  funding round from Variant Fund, Dragonfly Capital, Nascent, THE LAO, Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), Robot Ventures, Collab+Currency.

Sense is a decentralized fixed-income protocol on Ethereum, allowing users to manage risk through fixed rates and future yield trading on existing yield bearing-assets.

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