Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 19 – 25, Apr 2021

This week's biggest funding round

Forte raised $185M in a Series A funding round from Griffin Gaming Partners, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Union Square Ventures (USV).

Forte is an end-to-end solution for token-based game economies and NFTs that benefits the community.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

NFTBank raised $1.4M in a Seed funding round from Hashed, 1kx, Digital Currency Group (DCG).

NFTBank is a platform that provides asset management services of NFT assets from various projects. It supports all of the non-fungible tokens built on Ethereum’s network, as well as on Polygon (formerly known as Matic). The platform allows users to view all of the NFTs in a single place.

Yield Guild Games raised $1.3M in a Seed funding round from Delphi Digital, BlockTower Capital, Scalar Capital, Youbi Capital, Ascensive Assets, gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC), Animoca Brands, Dialectic, SevenX Ventures, P2 Ventures (Polygon Ventures), Sfermion, Bitscale Capital, Flamingo, Free Company.

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

Phuture raised $1.5M in a Seed funding round from Ascensive Assets, NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital), SevenX Ventures, Moonrock Capital, Origin Capital, Waterdrip Capital, D64 Ventures, Vendetta Capital, Genblock Capital.

Phuture is a decentralised protocol built for the creation and investment of passive index strategies in a Web3 environment.

Roseon Finance raised $2M in a Seed funding round from x21 Digital, Alphabit, AU21 Capital, Genblock Capital, Moonwhale Ventures, Petrock Capital, Lotus Capital, GD10 Ventures, Kyros Ventures.

Roseon Finance is a mobile yield aggregator that manages your crypto + NFT portfolio and optimizes yield across DeFi and CeFi networks.

DexGuru raised $1M in a Seed funding round from ParaFi Capital, Lemniscap, Stake Capital, Bitscale Capital, THE LAO, Divergence.

Trading terminal made for traders in DeFi era, leveraging on-chain analytics combined with token swap execution capabilities.

Pancake Bunny raised $1.6M in a Seed funding round from Binance Labs Fund, IDEO CoLab Ventures.

Bunny is a yield farming aggregator & optimizer for the Binance Smart Chain.

Duet Protocol raised $200K in a Pre-seed funding round from OMNILab Foundation*.

Duet protocol is a synthetic asset protocol that allows traditional assets to migrate to high-growth crypto-assets.

Other investment rounds

TeraBlock raised $2.4M in a  funding round from AU21 Capital, Blockchain com (Blockchain Ventures), Blocksync Ventures, Magnus Capital, x21 Digital, Shima Capital, Petrock Capital, Genblock Capital, Lotus Capital.

TeraBlock offers machine learning-driven, personalized automated cryptocurrency portfolio management to help users easily manage assets.

Torum raised $1.5M in a  funding round from AU21 Capital, Momentum 6 (M6), Lotus Capital, Consensus Lab, Waterdrip Capital, AngelONE Capital.

Torum is a social media platform that is specially designed for cryptocurrency users and projects.

WeStarter raised undisclosed amount in a  funding round from Continue Capital, NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital), AU21 Capital, Spark Digital Capital, SevenX Ventures, LD Capital, Kyros Ventures, Sky Ventures.

WeStarter is a cross-chain token initial swap platform which based on HECO network.

ChainSwap raised $3.3M in a Public sale  funding round from .

ChainSwap is a cross-chain asset bridge & application hub for smart chains.

Mochi Market raised $650K in a Public sale  funding round from .

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

Busy raised $180K in a Public sale  funding round from .

Busy DAO is an engine for B2C/C2C platforms with cutting-edge blockchain technology, DeFi solutions, Utility Staking, and NFTs.

TradeStars raised $1.7M in a  funding round from AU21 Capital, OKX Ventures (ex OKEx Blockdream Ventures), LD Capital, Spark Digital Capital, Morningstar Ventures, Faculty Capital, NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital), Krypital Group, Free Company, Sfermion.

TradeStars is a Fantasy Sports platform where Fractional NFT markets enable a DeFi gamification system for trading digital assets.

CoinSwitch Kuber raised $25M in a Series B  funding round from Tiger Global*.

CoinSwitch Kuber is Indian cryptocurrency exchange platform allowing its users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies.

FC Barcelona Fan Token raised $2M in a Public sale  funding round from .

A Fan Token for FC Barcelona Built on the Chiliz Chain.

BSC Station raised $110K in a Public sale  funding round from .

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

Tokemak raised $4M in a  funding round from Framework Ventures, Electric Capital, Coinbase Ventures, North Island Ventures (NIV), Delphi Digital, ConsenSys.

Tokemak is a novel DeFi primitive designed to generate sustainable liquidity.

Nerve Finance raised $2M in a  funding round from Three Arrows Capital, Coin Merge Strategy (CMS), Alameda Research, Primitive.

Nerve is an AMM specifically designed for trading stablecoins on Binance Smart Chain.

Aleo raised $28M in a Series A  funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto)*, Placeholder, Galaxy Digital, Variant Fund, Coinbase Ventures, Polychain Capital, Slow Ventures, Scalar Capital, Dekrypt Capital, A Capital, Zero Knowledge Validator (ZKV), Ethereal Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan.

Aleo is a platform for private applications using zero-knowledge cryptography. Aleo is a Layer 1 blockchain – based on a novel consensus protocol – is designed to be faster and more efficient than traditional models by leveraging zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs.

Injective raised $10M in a Strategic  funding round from Pantera Capital, BlockTower Capital, Hashed, Coin Merge Strategy (CMS), QCP Capital, Mark Cuban.

Injective is a universal layer-2 DeFi protocol for cross-chain derivatives trading.

Filebase raised $2M in a  funding round from Multicoin Capital.

Filebase is the first S3-compatible object storage platform that allows you to store data in a secure, redundant, and performant manner across multiple decentralized storage networks.

NFTMart raised $1.5M in a  funding round from OKX Ventures (ex OKEx Blockdream Ventures), Bixin Ventures, Spark Digital Capital, Signum Capital, PrimeBlock Ventures, Prom (ex Prometheus Labs).

NFTMart is a scalable, decentralized, cross-chain trading platform based on an independent public chain.

Smoothy raised $2.4M in a  funding round from Hashkey Capital, DeFiance Capital, AscendEX, Spark Digital Capital, BTC12 Capital, Signum Capital, Morningstar Ventures, x21 Digital, Exnetwork Capital.

A novel single pool liquidity protocol specialized in same backed assets with low-cost zero-slippage swapping and maximize interest earning.

Blockswap Network raised $4.5M in a Public sale  funding round from .

BlockSwap Network is an automated stake liquidity protocol. The BlockSwap protocol aims to bring fixed income products to DeFi through its sustainable yield farming and Proof of Stake assets.

NAOS Finance raised $5.1M in a  funding round from The Spartan Group, Lemniscap, Coin Merge Strategy (CMS), Huobi DeFi Labs, Hashkey Capital, Maven 11 Capital, Genesis Block Ventures Capital (GBV), Incuba Alpha, Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance), Collider Ventures, OKX Ventures (ex OKEx Blockdream Ventures), Morningstar Ventures, Genblock Capital, AU21 Capital, Mechanism Capital, Primitive, PrimeBlock Ventures, Sora Ventures, GBIC (Global Blockchain Innovative Capital), SNZ Holding, Youbi Capital.

NAOS Finance facilitates DeFi lenders and SME borrowers to allow both parties to interact in a permission-less manner on the blockchain.

* fund, that lead investment round