Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 16 – 22, Aug 2021

This week's biggest funding round

Bitpanda (ex Trustology) raised $263M in a Series C funding round from Valar Ventures, REDO Ventures, LeadBlock Partners, Jump Capital, Alan Howard.

Bitpanda is a European neobroker on a mission to democratize the complex world of investing.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

RSS3 raised undisclosed amount in a Seed funding round from Sky9 Capital, Hashed, Hash Global, Mask Network, Fosun Group.

RSS3 is a next-generation feed protocol that powers decentralized social, content, and e-commerce applications. RSS3 aims to be a bridge between blockchain technology and AI, search engines and social media. It's project RSS3 AIOP is an AI training environment providing Web3 information likes of ChatGPT.

DeFi Warrior raised $2.3M in a Seed funding round from Signum Capital, HyperChain Capital, OKX Ventures (ex OKEx Blockdream Ventures), GFS Ventures, Exnetwork Capital, NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital), Arche Fund (Coin98 Ventures), Spark Digital Capital.

Defi Warrior is a blockchain-based game genre inspired by the universe of cryptocurrencies.

ARterra Labs raised undisclosed amount in a Seed funding round from Woodstock, Youbi Capital, LD Capital, 42 fund.

ARterra is an NFT platform, Marketplace, and API solution to empower creators with the best tools and experiences to elevate fan engagement.

Tessera (ex Fractional) raised $7.9M in a Seed funding round from Paradigm, Robot Ventures, Delphi Digital, Variant Fund, Mechanism Capital, Divergence, Flamingo.

Tessera is a collective NFT ownership platform.

Catalog raised $2.2M in a Seed funding round from 1confirmation*, Delphi Digital, Inflection, WndrCo Ventures, Divergence, Dialectic, Free Company.

Catalog is an NFT marketplace built specifically for the music industry.

Highstreet raised $5M in a Seed funding round from Mechanism Capital, NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital), Jump Capital.

Highstreet World is a play-to-earn open-world metaverse that incorporates shopping, gaming, NFTs and brands with an MMORPG experience.

Ondo Finance raised $4M in a Seed funding round from Pantera Capital*, Triblock, THE LAO, Protoscale Capital, Genesis, Divergence, Digital Currency Group (DCG), CoinFund, Coin Merge Strategy (CMS), Bixin Ventures, Chapter One, Stani Kulechov.

Ondo Finance is an open and decentralized investment bank that enables and facilitates connection between stakeholders in the emerging DeFi ecosystem.

Cykura (ex Cyclos) raised $1M in a Seed funding round from Coin Merge Strategy (CMS), Hashkey Capital, HTX Ventures (ex Huobi Ventures), Arche Fund (Coin98 Ventures), MEXC, Gate Labs, Petrock Capital, SkyVision Capital, Solana Ventures, Illusionist Group, Youbi Capital.

A concentrated liquidity market maker protocol that aims to be the go-to liquidity provider for digital asset trading on Solana.

Other investment rounds

Yield Guild Games raised $4.6M in a  funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto)*, Kingsway Capital, Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC), Atelier.

Yield Guild Games is a decentralized gaming guild that invests in NFTs found in blockchain-based games and virtual world economies.

Chainflip raised $6M in a Strategic  funding round from Framework Ventures, ParaFi Capital, Distributed Global, Delphi Digital, Coinbase Ventures, Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance), Morningstar Ventures, Hypersphere.

Chainflip is a cross-chain AMM enabling native asset swaps without wrapped tokens or specialised wallets

MobileCoin raised $66M in a Series B  funding round from Alameda Research, Coinbase Ventures, Berggruen Holdings, BlockTower Capital, General Catalyst.

MobileCoin is a privacy coin with a focus on speed and user experience.

CertiK raised $24M in a Series B  funding round from Tiger Global, GL Ventures.

Certik is a cross-chain protocol with security scoring and decentralized reimbursements for building secure dApps and blockchains.

Figment raised $50M in a Series B  funding round from Senator Investment Group, Liberty City Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Anchorage Digital, Declaration Partners, Bonfire Ventures, 10T Holdings, Finality Capital, GSR Markets LTD.

Figment is one of the world's largest blockchain infrastructure and services provider.

* fund, that lead investment round