Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 18 – 24, Mar 2019

This week's biggest funding round

Bitfarms raised $20M in a funding round from Dominion Capital*.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Bison Trails raised $5.3M in a Seed funding round from Initialized Capital*, Accomplice Blockchain*, Galaxy Digital, Distributed Global, Homebrew, Charge Ventures, Notation Capital.

Donut raised $1.8M in a Seed funding round from Redalpine Capital*, N26, Entrepreneur First, AngelList.

Mudrex raised $500K in a Pre-seed funding round from Y Combinator*.

Globe Derivative Exchange raised undisclosed amount in a Pre-seed funding round from Y Combinator*.

Alpaca raised $5.8M in a Seed funding round from Y Combinator.

Alpaca is an API platform offering commission-free trading for stocks, options, and cryptocurrencies. It provides a suite of APIs—including Trading API, Broker API, and Market Data API—designed for fintech startups, algorithmic traders, and financial institutions to build and scale trading applications. Alpaca supports over 20 cryptocurrencies across 56 trading pairs, available 24/7, with secure custody solutions and real-time market data. Its infrastructure emphasizes low-latency order processing and scalability, making it suitable for a wide range of trading strategies and applications.

Other investment rounds

Numeraire raised $11M in a  funding round from Paradigm*, Placeholder*.

CoinDCX raised undisclosed amount in a  funding round from Bain Capital Crypto*.

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

* fund, that lead investment round