This week's biggest funding round
Improbable raised $100M in a funding round from Elrond*.
Improbable is a metaverse technology company that solves the challenges of building virtual worlds and pioneering the path to the metaverse.
Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds
Bond Protocol raised $2.5M in a Seed funding round from Chapter One, IDEO CoLab Ventures, Alchemy Ventures, Hypersphere.
Bond Protocol is the next evolution of bonds-as-a-service. Olympus-style bonds have revolutionized the way protocols approach acquiring assets.
Bond Protocol enables any crypto protocol to quickly setup, configure, and launch its own bond programs to capture liquidity and diversify its treasury holdings.
Blackbird raised $11M in a Seed funding round from Union Square Ventures (USV), Shine Capital, Multicoin Capital, Variant Fund, Circle Ventures, InterActiveCorp (IAC), Flamingo.
Blackbird is Web3 hospitality platform purpose-built for the hospitality industry with a focus on creating a direct connection between the restaurant and their guests through loyalty and membership services.
Scale3 Labs raised $5.3M in a Seed funding round from Redpoint, Mysten Labs, Howard University.
Web3 platform for monitoring and maintaining blockchain networks and nodes developed by Scale3 Labs, founded by former Coinbase engineers.
ChainML raised $4M in a Seed funding round from IOSG Ventures, HashKey Group, SNZ Holding.
ChainML is a scalable, tamperproof protocol for decentralized machine learning and related complex data-driven computation for Web3.
Exponential raised $14M in a Seed funding round from Paradigm*, HAUN Ventures, FTX Ventures, Polygon Ventures, Circle Ventures, Solana Ventures, Robot Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Global Founders Capital (GFC).
Exponential is a decentralized finance (DeFi) investment discovery and risk assessment platform.
Thirdwave raised $7M in a Seed funding round from Framework Ventures, Animoca Brands, Play Ventures, Shima Capital, Hustle Fund.
Thirdwave is a blockchain discovery engine, focused on providing business data and insights to enable gaming teams to better understand, find, and retain customers.
Stems raised $4M in a Pre-seed funding round from IDEO CoLab Ventures, Merit Circle, Yield Guild Games (YGG), Collab+Currency, Village Global, Polygon Studios, FireEyes, Noise, Jump Crypto, GSR Markets LTD, Akatsuki.
Stems is a decentralized music platform.
Other investment rounds
Xalts raised $6M in a funding round from Citi, Accel, Sandeep Nailwal.
Xalts is an institutional-grade digital asset management startup founded by a former trader at banking giant HSBC and a former Meta Asia executive.
Lasso Labs raised $4.2M in a funding round from Electric Capital, Ethereal Ventures, Village Global, OpenSea.
Lasso Labs is a platform for digital asset utility like NFT to get the most reliable, current, and comprehensive view of the opportunities linked to the tokens.
MynaSwap raised $6M in a funding round from Blizzard, Spartan Capital, Wave Financial.
MynaSwap is a trading and vaulting platform, built on the Avalanche network, for collectibles, such as sneakers, sports cards and watches.
AlterVerse raised undisclosed amount in a funding round from Binance Labs Fund, Polygon Ventures, Ankr Network.
AlterVerse is a metaverse game with interconnected worlds, communities, and games. Built using Unreal Engine 5, AlterVerse features realistic graphics, incredible design elements, extensive 3D environments, and streamlined gameplay.
Skyweaver raised $40M in a Series A funding round from Morgan Creek Capital, Ubisoft, Take-Two Interactive Software, Brevan Howard Digital.
Skyweaver is the browser-based cross platform card game where users can own, trade and gift their cards. Created by Horizon Blockchain Games.
Juno raised $18M in a Series A funding round from ParaFi Capital, Hashed, Jump Crypto, Greycroft, 6th Man Ventures (6MV).
Juno is a crypto digital banking firm that provides crypto-friendly checking accounts.
Golden raised $40M in a Series B funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Protocol Labs, OpenSea, Data Collective DCVC, FalconX, Xoogler Ventures.
Golden is Web3 knowledge engine. Golden is building a permissionless, open source protocol that incentivizes the collection and verification of canonical knowledge, which it will offer to the public for free and charge commercial entities.
* fund, that lead investment round

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