Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 04 – 10, Apr 2022

Summary

During this week 17 blockchain startups has raised $0.9B in funding:

Unknown round: 6 startups $669.9M
Series C round: 1 startup $150M
Series A round: 3 startups $79M
Seed round: (4 startups) $37.5M
Strategic round: (2 startups) $7.8M
Pre-seed round: (1 startup) $4.2M

$223.3M

$446.6M

$669.9M

Investments by ecosystem

This week's biggest funding round

NEAR Protocol raised $350M in a funding round from Tiger Global*, Republic Capital (ex Republic Labs), Hashed, FTX Ventures, Dragonfly Capital (ex Metastable Capital), Republic, ParaFi Capital, Blockchange Ventures, MetaWeb Ventures.

NEAR is a decentralized application platform which is built atop the NEAR Protocol, a revolutionary public proof-of-stake blockchain.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Porter Finance raised $5M in a Seed funding round from ParaFi Capital, Dragonfly Capital (ex Metastable Capital), Nascent.

Porter enables creditworthy DAOs to obtain fixed-rate financing using their project tokens as collateral.

DEFY raised $3.5M in a Seed funding round from Animoca Brands*, OliveX*, The Spartan Group*, Polygon Studios, GameFi Ventures, Bixin Ventures, Unanimous Capital, PathDAO, Play It Forward DAO.

DEFY is a play to earn NFT mobile game built on the Polygon Layer 2 platform.

Polemos raised $14M in a Seed funding round from Framework Ventures, Delphi Digital, QCP Capital, Golden Tree, IOSG Ventures, LD Capital.

Polemos is a global GameFi platform that is the first decentralized combination of its own marketplace, educational hub, and community-centric gaming guild.

GOALS raised $15M in a Seed funding round from Northzone*, Cherry Ventures, Moonfire Ventures.

GOALS is a free-to-play, cross-play, multiplayer-focused soccer video game, developed by a team of industry veterans, with self-play mechanics for in-game assets such as players, clubs, and skins. The game emphasizes teamwork and fast, fluid gameplay over hyperrealism, and offers both 11v11 and 5v5 modes, making it esports-ready at launch.

Dank Bank raised $4.2M in a Pre-seed funding round from Mechanism Capital, Samsung Next, Morningstar Ventures, Kyros Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan.

Dank Bank is the NFT trading platform dedicated exclusively to memes and viral videos.

Other investment rounds

Improbable raised $150M in a funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto)*, SoftBank Fund*, Mirana Ventures, Digital Currency Group (DCG), Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance), CMT Digital, Morgan Creek Capital, SIG DTI (a Susquehanna International Group Company), Ethereal Ventures.

Improbable is a metaverse technology company that solves the challenges of building virtual worlds and pioneering the path to the metaverse.

Voiceverse raised $6.5M in a funding round from Hashed, PKO Investments, Animoca Brands.

Unique AI-powered Voice NFTs.

Community Gaming raised $16M in a Series A funding round from SoftBank Fund, Animoca Brands, Binance Labs Fund, Consensys Mesh, Polygon Studios, CoinFund, Hashed, Griffin Gaming Partners, Shima Capital, Multicoin Capital.

Community Gaming’s platform allows users to organize video game tournaments on either the Ethereum mainnet, Binance Smart Chain or Polygon.

Boba Network raised $45M in a Series A funding round from Crypto.com Capital, Huobi Global, Hypersphere, Infinite Capital, Hack VC, Genesis Block Ventures Capital (GBV), Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance), BitMart, Shima Capital, Genblock Capital, Rarestone Capital.

Boba is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 Optimistic Rollup scaling solution that reduces gas fees.

Leap raised $3.2M in a funding round from Pantera Capital*, CoinFund*, Arrington Capital, Accel, Terra.

Leap Wallet is the simplest & safest way to store, send, swap and stake tokens on the Terra blockchain.

Ready Player DAO raised $10.2M in a funding round from The Chernin Group (TCG Crypto), 1kx, ConsenSys, Fourth Revolution Capital (4RC), Hashed, Koji Capital, SterlingVC.

Ready Player DAO is a decentralized organization governed by its members and revolutionizing play-to-earn gaming.

Ronin raised $150M in a funding round from Binance Labs Fund, Animoca Brands, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Dialectic, Paradigm, Accel.

Ronin is an EVM based blockchain, crafted for developers who want to build games with player-owned economies.

Axie Infinity raised $150M in a Series C funding round from Binance*, Animoca Brands, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Dialectic, Paradigm, Accel.

Axie Infinity is a Pokémon-inspired gaming platform with a fun and educational way to introduce the world to blockchain and NFT technology. Created by Sky Mavis.