Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 13 – 19, Dec 2021

This week's biggest funding round

Anchorage Digital raised $350M in a Series D funding round from Goldman Sachs, Alameda Research, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Blockchain Capital, Delta Blockchain Fund, Elad Gil, Golden Tree, Kraken Ventures, Lux Capital, Senator Investment Group, PayPal Ventures.

Anchorage Digital is a global regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated digital asset financial services and infrastructure solutions.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Hubble Protocol raised $3.6M in a Seed funding round from Delphi Digital, Jump Capital, Coin Merge Strategy (CMS), The Spartan Group, Mechanism Capital, Three Arrows Capital, DeFiance Capital, Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance), Decentral Park Capital, Digital Strategies.

Hubble is a fee-sharing decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol built on Solana that will offer multiple DeFi services as the protocol and DeFi continue to mature and expand.

League of Kingdoms raised $3M in a Seed funding round from Hashed, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Binance Labs Fund, Sequoia Capital, BlockTower Capital, SkyVision Capital, Yield Guild Games (YGG).

League of Kingdoms is the first 4x MMO strategy game and one of the fastest-growing blockchain MMO games in the world.

GIANT Protocol raised $5M in a Seed funding round from CoinFund, gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC), Blockchange Ventures, Entheos, Argonautic, Bronco Fund.

GIANT Protocol is a blockchain protocol that aims to decentralize and democratize access to the internet and financial services, by tokenizing bandwidth.

Sound.xyz raised $5M in a Seed funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto)*, Variant Fund, PTC Crypto (Palm Tree Crew), Weekend Fund, Scalar Capital, Flamingo, THE LAO, Atelier, Packy McCormick.

The Sound Protocol is an open-source framework that enables musicians, artists, and creators to efficiently create digital collectibles, emphasizing a collaborative music movement where users can directly support their favorite artists and stake their claim on early access, all powered by web3 technology.

PleasrDAO raised undisclosed amount in a Seed funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Mechanism Capital, Taureon, Dragonfly Capital (ex Metastable Capital), Variant Fund, Robert Leshner, Stani Kulechov, Tetranode, Fiskantes, Alex Svanevik, FireEyes.

PleasrDAO is a collective of DeFi leaders, early NFT collectors and digital artists

Other investment rounds

Unique Venture clubs raised $3M in a  funding round from SkyVision Capital, NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital), Moonrock Capital, Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC), YGG SEA, Solana Ventures, Gate Labs, MEXC, Chain Capital, Solar Eco Fund, Jump Capital, GSR Markets LTD.

UNQClub is a DeFi platform providing tools for collectors and investors to power the NFT space. Running cross-chain, powered by Solana.

Aztec Network raised $17M in a Series A  funding round from Paradigm*, A Capital, Ethereal Ventures, Libertus Capital, Variant Fund, Scalar Capital, IOSG Ventures, Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance), Nascent, ImToken Ventures, Zero Knowledge Validator (ZKV), Stani Kulechov.

Aztec Network is a private ZK-rollup on Ethereum, enabling decentralized applications to access privacy and scale. Aztec’s rollup is secured by its industry-standard PLONK proving mechanism used by the leading zero-knowledge scaling projects.

Nansen raised $75M in a Series B  funding round from Accel, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Tiger Global, SCB 10X, Skyfall Ventures, Folius Ventures.

Nansen is an analytics platform for blockchain, which combines on-chain data with a massive and constantly growing database containing millions of wallet labels.

Ramp Network raised $52.7M in a Series A  funding round from Balderton Capital, NFX, Galaxy Digital, Seedcamp, Firstminute Capital.

Ramp is a crypto payments firm. It's core product is a software development kit for on- and off-ramp payment features where users can buy cryptocurrencies via debit and credit cards, bank transfers and Apple Pay.

Moonray raised $3.5M in a  funding round from Animoca Brands, LD Capital, Atesis, LucidBlue Ventures, Genesis Block Ventures Capital (GBV), Metavest Capital, Republic, DWeb3 Capital, LongHash Ventures.

Moonray is a multiplayer action-RPG, an NFT marketplace that is considered the first metaverse and gaming non-fungible token (NFT) exchange built on the Bitcoin network via Stacks.

* fund, that lead investment round