Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 12 – 18, Apr 2021

This week's biggest funding round

ConsenSys raised $65M in a Strategic funding round from J.P. Morgan Asset Management*, Mastercard*, UBS*, Fenbushi Capital, THE LAO, NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital), CMT Digital, SNZ Holding, Protocol Labs, Liberty City Ventures, MakerDAO, Alameda Research.

ConsenSys builds Ethereum blockchain infrastructure and applications ranging from developer tools to enterprise solutions.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

NFTb raised $200K in a Seed funding round from Spark Digital Capital, Rarestone Capital.

NFTb is a premier marketplace for NFTs and digital goods.

Pearpop raised $6M in a Seed funding round from Slow Ventures*, Seven Seven Six Ventures*, Ashton Kutcher*, Chapter One, Atelier.

Pearpop is an American social media collaboration platform headquartered in Los Angeles.

The Defiant raised $1.4M in a Seed funding round from IDEO CoLab Ventures, ParaFi Capital, Blockchange Ventures, MetaCartel Ventures, DeFiance Capital, Mechanism Capital, Genesis Block Ventures Capital (GBV).

The Defiant is a news platform with in-depth DeFi guides and analysis to help to find the important developments in DeFi.

Parami Protocol raised undisclosed amount in a Seed funding round from NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital), Coin Merge Strategy (CMS), Genesis Block Ventures Capital (GBV), Digital Finance Group (DFG), Genblock Capital, Signum Capital, AXIA8 Ventures, Spark Digital Capital, Digital Strategies, AU21 Capital, GBIC (Global Blockchain Innovative Capital), PNYX Ventures, Ruby Capital, Titans Ventures, Gate Labs, Bella.

Parami Protocol proposed an AD 3.0 paradigm for Web 3.0, to establish a user-centric tokenized advertising economy.

Coin98 raised $1.3M in a Seed funding round from ParaFi Capital, Hashed, The Spartan Group, Multicoin Capital, Kyber Ventures, Coingecko.

Coin98 is a cross-chain liquidity protocol with a full suite of products including Coin98 Wallet, Coin98 Exchange and Coin98 Bridge.

Tabi (ex Treasureland) raised $1M in a Seed funding round from Hashkey Capital*, Youbi Capital*, NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital), Genesis Block Ventures Capital (GBV), Digital Finance Group (DFG), Spark Digital Capital, SNZ Holding, Mask Network.

Tabi is a decentralized marketplace and platform for publishing and trading nonfungible tokens (NFTs). It offers features such as NFT trading, a launchpad, and a gaming platform, while also converting users' on-chain activities into experience points for future rewards. Tabi aims to connect NFT creators, users, and consumers, serving as a gateway to the Web 3.0 world and offering incentives for developers on the BNB Chain.

Other investment rounds

CryptoSlam raised undisclosed amount in a  funding round from Mark Cuban.

Leading provider of data and transparency for the NFT industry.

Hyperithm raised $11M in a Series B  funding round from Hashed*, Wemade*, Coinbase Ventures, Cocone, Samsung Next.

Hyperithm is a private digital asset manager based in Tokyo and Seoul, dedicated to institutional investors and high net-worth individuals.

KelVPN raised $218K in a Public sale  funding round from .

KelVPN is the first deanon-proof and quantum-safe decentralized VPN.

Porta Network raised $210K in a Public sale  funding round from .

Porta is a Substrate-based, Nominated Proof-Of-Stake blockchain network. Developed by Kianite.

PolkaDomain raised $50K in a Public sale  funding round from .

Polka.Domain is an interoperable and decentralized blockchain naming service with an integrated domain and NFT marketplace built on Polkadot.

MOAR Finance raised $105.1K in a Public sale  funding round from .

MOAR Finance is a DeFi lending platform built to unlock the power of inter-chain derivatives primitives.

Mina Protocol (ex Coda Protocol) raised $18.8M in a Public sale  funding round from .

The world’s lightest blockchain, creating a private gateway between the real world and crypto.

MOAR Finance raised undisclosed amount in a  funding round from Spark Digital Capital, 3Commas, Moonwhale Ventures, Staked VC (ex StakelyVC), Kyros Ventures, Ruby Capital, AU21 Capital, Paribus Ventures, x21 Digital, Magnus Capital, Black Edge Capital.

MOAR Finance is a DeFi lending platform built to unlock the power of inter-chain derivatives primitives.

Pendle raised $3.7M in a  funding round from Mechanism Capital*, Crypto com Capital, Hashkey Capital, The Spartan Group, Coin Merge Strategy (CMS), ImToken Ventures, Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance), Lemniscap, LedgerPrime, Parataxis Capital, Signum Capital, Youbi Capital, Sora Ventures, D1 Ventures, Original Capital, Bitscale Capital.

Pendle is an on-chain yield asset aggregator that enables the separation and trading of future yield.

O3 Swap raised $2M in a  funding round from NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital), OKX Ventures (ex OKEx Blockdream Ventures), SevenX Ventures, FBG Capital, Incuba Alpha, Moonwhale Ventures, Puzzle Ventures.

O3 Swap is a cross-chain aggregation protocol, allowing users to access multi-chain liquidity sources on one platform.

ParaState raised $5M in a Strategic  funding round from Alameda Research, Signum Capital, HyperChain Capital, Bixin Ventures, Genesis Block Ventures Capital (GBV), Inclusion Capital, ZMT Capital, Polkastarter, DAO Maker, The DuckDao, Moonwhale Ventures, Chronos Ventures, Master Ventures, Lotus Capital, Momentum 6 (M6).

ParaState is a Polkadot parachain that extends the frontier of Ethereum with Substrate framework.

Pearpop raised $10M in a Series A  funding round from Seven Seven Six Ventures*, Bessemer Venture Partners.

Pearpop is an American social media collaboration platform headquartered in Los Angeles.

BENQI raised $6M in a Strategic  funding round from Ascensive Assets, Arrington Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Mechanism Capital, TRGC, Woodstock, The Spartan Group, Ava Labs, Morningstar Ventures, Genesis Block Ventures Capital (GBV), Genblock Capital, Rarestone Capital.

BENQI is a decentralized non-custodial liquidity market protocol on Avalanche, enabling users to lend, borrow, and earn interest with their assets.

Don-key raised $2.2M in a Strategic  funding round from Black Edge Capital, AU21 Capital, Genesis Block Ventures Capital (GBV), Spark Digital Capital, Solidity Ventures, Moonwhale Ventures, Morningstar Ventures.

Don-key aims to bring the missing social element to DeFi, making yield farming more accessible and profitable for everyone.

Mochi Market raised $650K in a  funding round from Magnus Capital, Raptor Capital, x21 Digital, Moonwhale Ventures, Cinchblock, Blocksync Ventures.

Mochi.Market envisions to be the multi-chain decentralized exchange ecosystem for non-fungible tokens.

AntiMatter raised undisclosed amount in a  funding round from Huobi DeFi Labs.

Antimatter is an innovative lightweight on-chain and cross-chain DeFi perpetual options protocol based on a polarized token mechanism.

Step Finance raised $2M in a  funding round from Alameda Research, 3Commas, Raydium, One Block Capital Advisory, Solidity Ventures.

Step Finance is the front page of Solana. Visualise, Analyse, Aggregate and Execute transactions across Solana in one easy to use Dashboard.

Enso Finance raised $5M in a  funding round from Polychain Capital, Dfinity Foundation, Multicoin Capital, The Spartan Group, Zola Global Investors, THE LAO.

Enso Finance is a Defi tool for creating permissionless trading strategies. It's hoping to make Defi more frictionless and accessible.

Beyond Finance raised $301.3K in a Public sale  funding round from .

Beyond is a decentralized platform for creating and trading synthetic financial products designed to suit the needs of the synthetic creator.

UniFarm raised $2M in a  funding round from AU21 Capital, LD Capital, Rarestone Capital, Morningstar Ventures, NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital), Alphabit, Moonwhale Ventures, Acheron Trading, Zokyo Ventures.

UniFarm is an innovative farming solution where a bunch of projects come together to create a reward pool.

BSC Station raised undisclosed amount in a Strategic  funding round from Spark Digital Capital, Morningstar Ventures, AU21 Capital, x21 Digital, NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital).

BSC Station (BSCS) aims to build a Full-Stack DEFI with NFT Auction on the Binance Smart Chain.

Virtue Poker raised $5M in a  funding round from ConsenSys, Pantera Capital, Digital Finance Group (DFG).

A peer-to-peer decentralized poker platform built on Ethereum.

* fund, that lead investment round