Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 15 – 21, Aug 2022

This week's biggest funding round

Tessera (ex Fractional) raised $20M in a Series A funding round from Paradigm, Focus Labs, Uniswap Labs Ventures, eGirl Capital, Yunt Capital.

Tessera is a collective NFT ownership platform.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

MatchboxDAO raised $7.5M in a Seed funding round from Starkware, Geometry, Big Brain Holdings, Delphi Digital, BITKRAFT Ventures, 1kx, Fabric Ventures, Lemniscap, Mirana Ventures, Chapter One, Neon DAO, C² Ventures.

MatchboxDAO is a StarkNet-based game dev community.

dWallet Labs raised $5M in a Pre-seed funding round from Node Capital, Digital Currency Group (DCG), Collider Ventures, Lemniscap, Zero Knowledge Validator (ZKV), Tokenbay Capital, Cerulean Ventures, Amplifi Capital.

dWallet Labs is a cybersecurity company specializing in blockchain technology. Firm is developing projects for the Odsy Network.

Wincast raised undisclosed amount in a Seed funding round from CoinFund, Polygon Ventures, Gate.io Labs, Hashkey Capital, Dream Ventures, Cypher Capital, MH Ventures, Cogitent Ventures, Ceras Ventures.

Wincast is an interactive NFT platform for live sports that allows users to bid, own, trade, or sell NFTs capturing their favorite moments in sports history. Through its unique and immersive experience, users can watch sporting events in real-time, bid on NFTs of live moments, and have the NFTs instantly delivered to their wallets through a dynamic minting engine.

Other investment rounds

Fnatic raised undisclosed amount in a Strategic  funding round from Hivemind*, GuildFi, IndiGG, Paribu Ventures, Polygon Ventures, WWVentures, Presto Labs, Trinito.

Fnatic is the world’s leading esports performance brand aims to natively develop and scale Web3 applications across its award-winning esports platform to benefit gamers and gaming as a whole.

Safeheron raised $7M in a Series A  funding round from Yunqi Partners*, Web3Vision*, PrimeBlock Ventures, Waterdrip Capital, 7 O’Clock Capital.

Safeheron is an open-source digital asset self-custody platform that specializes in providing comprehensive self-custody solutions for institutional customers, utilizing Multi-Party Computation (MPC) and Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technology. Its solutions enable customers to have complete control over their private keys and assets while enhancing security and efficiency.

Gearbox Protocol raised $4.2M in a Strategic  funding round from Placeholder, Zee Prime Capital, LedgerPrime, Polymorphic Capital, Global Coin Research (GCR).

Gearbox is a generalized leverage protocol: it allows you to take leverage in one place and then use it across various DeFi protocols and platforms in a composable way.

* fund, that lead investment round