Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 07 – 13, Sep 2025

This week's biggest funding round

Figure raised $787.5M in a IPO funding round from .

Figure is a blockchain technology startup that offers loan origination, equity management, and payments services using the Provenance Blockchain. It is considered a unicorn company globally and aims to transform the financial services industry by bringing speed, efficiency, and savings to both consumers and institutions.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Gyld Finance raised $1.5M in a Pre-seed funding round from Lightshift*.

Gyld Finance offers an institutional marketplace for staked digital assets, enabling passive staking rewards to be transformed into actively managed, fixed-income–style instruments. The platform delivers regulated, liquid term staking infrastructure designed for capital efficiency, robust risk hedging, and portfolio exposure control across validator networks. With pilots underway alongside partners like Figment and secured operational infrastructure from Blockdaemon, Zodia Custody, and Copper, Gyld provides compliant, scalable market infrastructure tailored to asset managers, trading firms, and digital treasuries.

Inversion Capital raised $26.5M in a Seed funding round from Dragonfly Capital*, VanEck, Lightspeed Faction, ParaFi Capital, Portal Ventures, Mirana Ventures, Metalayer Ventures, Volt Capital, Hashkey Capital, Race Capital, Balaji Srinivasan, Wintermute Ventures, Moonrock Capital, Breed VC, Topology, Casey K. Caruso, Bodhi Ventures, Lvna Capital, Escape Velocity, Folius Ventures, Comfy Capital, Mike Dudas, Bryan Pellegrino, Jason Yanowitz, Andrew Steinwold, DCF God, Joshua Lim.

Inversion Capital is a private equity firm that revitalizes traditional companies—especially in sectors like telecommunications and financial services—by integrating blockchain infrastructure. Their strategy involves acquiring legacy businesses, such as MVNOs, then deploying blockchain-based solutions to enhance efficiency via features like instant settlement and reduced operational costs. This unique approach merges classic PE playbooks with Web3 innovation, aiming to unlock substantial value through execution and modernization.

Recoveris raised $1.3M in a Seed funding round from VerifyVASP.

Recoveris is a Switzerland-based venture specializing in blockchain intelligence and digital asset recovery services. With expertise in AI-powered forensic investigations and cross-chain tracing, Recoveris helps individuals, legal professionals, Web3 platforms, and law enforcement recover lost or stolen cryptocurrency. Their offerings include a blockchain investigation management system, forensic source-of-funds reports, and expert testimony, all built with stringent Swiss compliance and precision at its core.

KaleidoSwap raised undisclosed amount in a Pre-seed funding round from Bitfinex, Fulgur Ventures.

KaleidoSwap is a non‑custodial desktop application enabling trustless trading of RGB assets on the Lightning Network. It combines Bitcoin’s security, Lightning’s speed, and RGB protocol programmability to facilitate atomic swaps of BTC, USDT, and other RGB20 tokens. Users manage their own keys, choose to run a node or connect via Lightning Service Providers, and benefit from fast, private, open‑source asset trading in a decentralized manner.

Other investment rounds

ChatterPay raised undisclosed amount in a Strategic  funding round from Scroll*.

ChatterPay is a Web3 wallet integrated into WhatsApp, enabling users to easily send, receive, and manage cryptocurrency through simple chat messages. Without requiring technical knowledge or separate apps, users can buy, swap, and hold assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins via a conversational interface. It employs account abstraction and operates on a Layer 2 blockchain (Scroll) to ensure secure and low-cost transactions. Users can also issue immutable photo-based certificates by uploading a photo. Creating an account is free, and transfers are processed quickly with transparent, low fees.

Intuition raised $2.1M in a Public sale  funding round from .

Intuition is a decentralized platform that aims to enhance the quality and accessibility of social knowledge by providing infrastructure, tools, and applications for creating an open and flexible knowledge graph. Users can create attestations about any subject, which are stored in a navigable and queryable manner, and can be leveraged by other applications. Intuition's protocol and middleware enable seamless integration of attestations and the knowledge graph into third-party applications.

Rapyd raised $500M in a Series F  funding round from XBO Ventures, Target Global, BlackRock, General Catalyst, Fidelity Management and Research Company, Altimeter Capital, Whale Rock Capital Management, Dragoneer Investment Group, Latitude Capital, Durable Capital Partners, Spark Capital.

Rapyd is a global fintech‑as‑a‑service platform offering end‑to‑end payments infrastructure. Businesses can accept payments via card acquiring, banking, local wallets, and digital wallets, send global payouts, issue virtual and physical cards, and manage multi‑currency business accounts. Rapyd supports embedded fintech features through APIs and hosted checkout solutions, covering over 190 countries and 150 currencies. It targets industries like e‑commerce, B2B, marketplaces, gaming, and more, enabling fast onboarding, high authorization rates, and easier compliance without needing to build payments infrastructure from scratch.

Gemini raised $425M in a IPO  funding round from .

Gemini is a U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange and custodian bank founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in 2014. It offers a secure platform for buying, selling, trading, and storing over 70 cryptocurrencies and supports both retail and institutional clients. The platform emphasizes regulatory compliance and robust security, including offline cold storage, insurance coverage, and trust licensing. Gemini also provides services such as custody solutions, a payments app, staking, and its own stablecoin.

Sensible raised undisclosed amount in a M&A  funding round from Coinbase.

Sensible offers a secure and beginner‑friendly crypto savings account that lets users earn variable APY—up to around 8%—on major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. Users retain full custody of their assets at all times. There are no lock‑ups, minimum deposits, or hidden fees, and withdrawals can be made at any time. Sensible connects directly to existing crypto wallets or exchanges for seamless deposits. It aims to deliver passive yield through sustainable staking and yield strategies, while prioritizing simplicity, transparency, and user control. The team has recently joined Coinbase as part of an acquisition.

Everlyn raised $2M in a Public sale  funding round from .

Lyn is the first open-source foundational video model and multimodal agential ecosystem, designed as an “open dream machine” for the world. Its flagship model, Everlyn-1, pushes the boundaries of video AI with hyper-realistic quality, longer output, lower latency, and interactive capabilities. Paired with Everworld, Lyn enables personalized, photorealistic video agents that can perform human tasks online. Lyn is building a decentralized protocol powered by Agent APIs (AAPIs), creating an open, programmable ecosystem where intelligent video agents and humans co-exist and collaborate at scale.

PlayAI raised $2M in a Public sale  funding round from .

PlayAI Network is a modular blockchain infrastructure designed to supercharge developers with high-quality data and tools for deploying AI agents and models. Positioned as the orchestration layer between AI and crypto, it enables gaming and decentralized automation applications by securely aggregating and validating user-contributed data on-chain. By combining secure data sharing, decentralized validation, and workflow automation, PlayAI is building the foundation for an open AI-agent economy across gaming, DeFi, and cross-chain Web3 ecosystems.

Based One raised undisclosed amount in a  funding round from Ethena.

Based.one is a mobile-first trading platform built on Hyperliquid, offering seamless access to perpetual and spot markets with deep liquidity and advanced trading tools. Users can trade via mobile, web, desktop, or Telegram bot, while leveraging features like automated TP/SL, trailing stops, TWAP orders, and customizable charts. With a Visa spending card linked to crypto balances, Based.one bridges trading and real-world payments.

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