Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 19 – 25, Sep 2022

This week's biggest funding round

Sardine raised $51.5M in a Series B funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Nyca Partners, Sound Ventures, Activant Capital, Visa, Google Ventures (GV), Eric Schmidt, ConsenSys, Uniswap Labs Ventures.

Sardine is a real-time fraud prevention product for financial technology and Web3 customers.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Sintra raised $2M in a Seed funding round from Lemniscap, FTX Ventures, Chorus One, CMCC Global, Big Brain Holdings.

Sintra is a socially-powered NFT investment app that connects investors who strategize, together.

Headquarters raised $5M in a Pre-seed funding round from Crypto.com Capital, MassMutual Ventures, LongHash Ventures.

Headquarters is a Web3 back-office platform aims to help web3 firms better manage their financial operations and working capital across custodial and non-custodial wallets.

Skip Protocol raised $6.5M in a Seed funding round from Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), Galaxy Digital, Robot Ventures, Jump Crypto.

Skip is a Miner Extractable Value (MEV) infrastructure provider aims to democratize access to MEV opportunities and profits in the Cosmos ecosystem.

Hyperlane raised $18.5M in a Seed funding round from Variant Fund, Galaxy Digital, CoinFund, Circle Ventures, Figment, Kraken Ventures, NFX.

Hyperlane is a platform that helps developers connect applications across blockchains.

Block Green raised $3.7M in a Seed funding round from Founders fund, Coinbase Ventures, Blizzard.

Block Green is a lending protocol that aims to serve miners who lack access to capital.

Other investment rounds

KwilDB raised $9.6M in a  funding round from FTX Ventures, Digital Currency Group (DCG), Blockchange Ventures, AlleyCorp.

Kwil is a decentralized database infrastructure provider. Kwil's decentralized, community-owned platform - called KwilDB - is based on SQL, a standard programming language for interacting with large databases.

Loki raised $50M in a Series B  funding round from Makers Fund, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto).

Loki is a competitive, team-based game of adventure, creativity, and high-stakes combat. Is building by ​​game developer Theorycraft.

Yellow Card Financial raised $40M in a Series B  funding round from Polychain Capital, Valar Ventures, Third Prime, Castle Island Ventures, Fabric Ventures, DG Daiwa Ventures.

Yellow Card Financial is a Pan-African cryptocurrency exchange.

GRN Grid raised $50M in a  funding round from GEM Digital.

GRN Grid is an environmentally friendly, scalable and stable layer-1 blockchain with novel decentralized finance features.

Integral raised $8.5M in a  funding round from Electric Capital, Elad Gil, Hustle Fund.

Integral is a real-time accounting platform that builds financial management software for Web3 teams.

Messari raised $35M in a Series B  funding round from Brevan Howard Digital, Morgan Creek Capital, Samsung Next, FTX Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Coinbase Ventures.

Messari is a cryptocurrency data and analytics firm. It's mission is to promote transparency and smarter decision-making in the cryptoasset community. Their open-source data library helps researchers, investors, and regulators make sense of the industry.

Vulcan Forged raised $8M in a Series A  funding round from SkyBridge Capital.

Vulcan Forged is a premium blockchain game studio and also a cross-chain NFT marketplace.

Tres raised $7.6M in a  funding round from Boldstart Ventures, Alchemy Ventures, New Form Capital, Kenetic, Mantis VC (The Chainsmokers).

Tres is a web3 financial tooling software.

Unioverse raised $7.6M in a  funding round from Ignia, Polygon Ventures.

Unioverse is a "community owned" gaming franchise, which will allow developers and fans to use in-game assets as they please to make their own games, comic books or even T-shirts, said Random Games. It is created by blockchain gaming studio Random Games.

Nilos raised $5.2M in a  funding round from Fabric Ventures.

Nilos is a startup that aims to build a unified platform for managing crypto and fiat treasuries.

Binocs raised $4M in a  funding round from Beenext, Accel.

Binocs is a crypto tax reporting app aims to help crypto investors stay on top of their tax responsibilities.

Immunefi raised $24M in a Series A  funding round from Framework Ventures, Electric Capital, Polygon Ventures, Samsung Next, P2P Capital, North Island Ventures, Third Prime, Lattice Fund, Stratos Technologies.

Immunefi is a bug bounty security services platform that focuses on bug bounty and security services for Web3 projects.

3Commas raised $37M in a Series B  funding round from Alameda Research, Jump Capital.

3Commas is an automated crypto trading bot platform.

Lit Protocol raised $13M in a Series A  funding round from 1kx, 6th Man Ventures (6MV), A Capital, OpenSea.

Lit Protocol cryptography network.

Hadean raised $30M in a Series A  funding round from Molten Ventures (ex Draper Esprit)*, Epic Games, Alumni Ventures (AVG), Entrepreneur First, Aster Capital, 2050 Capital, InQTel.

​​Hadean is a metaverse infrastructure developer. Hadean are a venture backed startup, reimagining distributed, spatial and scalable computing for web 3.0 and the metaverse. The distributed cloud platform enables scalability, security, and interoperability, driving the metaverse and digital immersive experiences for enterprise, commercial, gaming and government customers.

Age of Zalmoxis raised undisclosed amount in a  funding round from Morningstar Ventures, EGLD GG, SL2 Capital.

Age of Zalmoxis is an ancient fantasy open-world MMORPG built in Unreal Engine 5.

Hume raised $11.7M in a Series A  funding round from The Chernin Group (TCG Crypto), Collab+Currency, Gemini Frontier Fund, Winklevoss Capital, Flamingo, Noise, THE LAO, Distributed Global.

Hume is the tech and music company behind virtual “metastar” angelbaby.

Immortal Game raised $15.5M in a  funding round from Kima Ventures, The Chernin Group (TCG Crypto), Alven, Kraken Ventures, Blockwall, Global Founders Capital (GFC), Blackpool.

Immortal Game is a startup that wants to turn chess into a web3 game with NFTs, play-to-earn rewards, quests, a marketplace and more.

Smoothie raised $1.2M in a  funding round from LongHash Ventures, Youbi Capital, Ghaf Capital Partners, King River Capital, Sneaky Ventures.

Smoothie is a product hunt for Web3.

Matr1x FIRE raised $10M in a Series A  funding round from Hana Financial Investments, Hashkey Capital, Amber Group, SevenX Ventures.

Matr1x is a mobile competitive first-person shooter (FPS) game, and also the first game in the Matr1x platform. Developed by Matr1x game studio.

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