Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 09 – 15, Aug 2021

This week's biggest funding round

TaxBit raised $130M in a Series B funding round from Tiger Global, Paradigm, 9Yards Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Madrona Venture Group.

TaxBit connects the consumer and enterprise cryptocurrency tax experiences.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Exactly raised $3M in a Seed funding round from Kaszek Ventures*, 6th Man Ventures (6MV), 11–11 DG partners, Newtopia VC, NXTP Ventures, Sur Ventures, Latitud, BairesDAO.

Exactly is a decentralized, non-custodial and open-source protocol that will provide an autonomous interest rate market to lenders and borrowers while setting interest rates based on credit supply and demand, enabling users to frictionlessly exchange the time value of their crypto assets at both variable and fixed interest rates for the first time in DeFi.

NearPad raised $2M in a Seed funding round from NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital), Near Foundation, Open Web Collective OWC, Ellipti, LD Capital, Flow Ventures, Exnetwork Capital, Genblock Capital.

NearPad is a DeFi Hub for NEAR Ecosystem.

Bitwave raised $7.3M in a Seed funding round from Blockchain Capital*, Nascent, Nima Capital, Arca Fund, XBTO Humla Ventures.

Bitwave is a digital asset finance platform designed specifically to manage the intersection of cryptocurrency tax, accounting, and compliance. Bitwave provides enterprises a complete drop in solution for handling digital assets – tax tracking, automatic mark-to-market, crypto AR/AP, wallets, and DeFi.

DefiSafety raised $1M in a Seed funding round from MetaCartel Ventures, Owl Ventures, Feleman, Turn Capital.

Independent Technical Risk Analysis in DeFi.

zkAudit raised $7M in a Seed funding round from Kenetic, Digital Currency Group (DCG), Liberty City Ventures, Sound Ventures, Deribit, Artist Capital, Deus Ex DAO, LionTree.

The world’s first and only fully decentralized and privacy preserving automated audit blockchain. Created by Horizen Labs.

Liquality raised $7M in a Seed funding round from Hashed, Galaxy Digital, Accomplice Blockchain, Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research, White Star Capital.

Liquality is a browser extension crypto wallet with built-In atomic swaps.

4EVERLAND raised $1.5M in a Seed funding round from Fenbushi Capital, FBG Capital, Bixin Ventures, Mint Ventures.

4EVERLAND is a Web3 cloud computing platform that offers integrated storage, computing, and network capabilities, aiming to bridge the transition from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0. By providing a distributed, efficient, and cost-effective data hosting gateway, it serves as foundational infrastructure for Web 3.0 developers and applications. Additionally, 4EVERLAND's Universe acts as a central hub for showcasing its technology projects and fostering the Web3 tech community.

Other investment rounds

StartFi raised $200K in a Public sale  funding round from .

StartFi is an Ethereum-Powered, fully decentralized NFT platform.

Dune raised $8M in a Series A  funding round from Union Square Ventures (USV), Redpoint, Dragonfly Capital, Multicoin Capital.

Dune is a powerful tool for blockchain research. Dune gives you all the tools to query, extract, and visualize vast amounts of data from the blockchain. Dune is unlocking the power of public blockchain data by making it accessible to everyone.

Tally raised $6M in a  funding round from Blockchain Capital, Placeholder, THE LAO, MetaCartel Ventures, FireEyes.

Tally empowers user owned governance through a voting dashboard, governance tooling, real time research and analysis, and an evergreen wiki.

Helium raised $111M in a  funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto)*, Ribbit Capital, 10T Holdings, Alameda Research, Multicoin Capital.

Helium is a blockchain network that leverages a decentralized global network of Hotspots — devices that double as network miners and wireless access points — initially to provide long-range connectivity to Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and long-term to connect anything to the internet via a decentralized wireless network such as 5G.

CoinDCX raised $90M in a Series C  funding round from Coinbase Ventures, Polychain Capital, Block.one, Jump Capital.

CoinDCX is India's safest crypto exchange, with a dedicated focus on making crypto accessible.

Pintu raised $35M in a Series A  funding round from Lightspeed, Alameda Research, Blockchain com (Blockchain Ventures), Castle Island Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital, Intudo Ventures.

Pintu is a crypto App for everyone for trading, analyzing, managing assets, and learning about crypto.

* fund, that lead investment round