Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 20 – 26, Jun 2022

This week's biggest funding round

Magic Eden raised $130M in a Series B funding round from Electric Capital, Greylock, Lightspeed, Paradigm, Sequoia Capital.

Magic Eden is an NFT marketplace on Solana for users to discover, trade, and create NFTs.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

SithSwap raised $2.7M in a Seed funding round from Lemniscap, Big Brain Holdings, GSR Markets LTD, DWeb3 Capital, Ghaf Capital Partners.

SithSwap is a next-gen automated market maker on StarkNet featuring instant volatile and stable swaps with ultralow slippage, near-zero fees, and the full security of Ethereum.

Afropolitan raised $2.1M in a Pre-seed funding round from Hashed, Atlantica Ventures, Microtraction, Cultur3 Capital, Shima Capital, Savannah Fund, Ingressive Capital, Audacity, RaliCap Ventures.

Afropolitan is a community-as-a-service company for the African diaspora.

Increment raised $1.6M in a Seed funding round from ParaFi Capital, Delphi Digital, Dialectic, AngelDAO, LedgerPrime, SkyVision Capital.

Increment is a distributed, algorithmic exchange rate protocol building on zkSync 2.0, empowering open finance for non-USD participants in DeFi.

Astaria raised $8M in a Seed funding round from True Ventures, Wintermute, Genesis, LedgerPrime, Hypersphere, THE LAO.

Astaria is a non-fungible token (NFT) lending platform and liquidity engine. It allows users to put up their NFTs as collateral to earn instant liquidity.

Other investment rounds

Cryptoys raised $23M in a Series A  funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Mattel, Dapper Labs, Draper Associates, Acrew Capital, CoinFund, Animoca Brands, Sound Ventures.

Cryptoys is an NFT native digital platform crafting fully interactive collectibles, Play-to-Earn games, and immersive next-level experiences.

EyesFi raised $2M in a  funding round from Multicoin Capital*, Puzzle Ventures, Delta Blockchain Fund.

EyesFi is a Web3 lifestyle app that operates on the Ethereum Metaverse, allowing users to earn rewards by curating and liking NFTs using a curation-based reward mechanism and a "Like2Earn" model, promoting a more efficient value discovery platform with the help of its users.

MetaOne raised $2M in a  funding round from Huobi Ventures, LD Capital, Cypher Capital, GSR Markets LTD, Cogitent Ventures.

MetaOne is the chain game platform that aims to simplify onboarding and NFT processes via offering gaming data analytics to the gamers community.

Endaoment raised $6.7M in a  funding round from Shine Capital*, Coinbase Ventures, Circle Ventures, Higher Ground Labs, Framework Ventures, Quiet Capital, Hypersphere.

Endaoment is a nonprofit community foundation & public charity built on the Ethereum blockchain, allowing anyone to donate their digital assets to any qualified 501(c)(3) U.S. nonprofit organization. Endaoment.Org, a blockchain-based public charity, and Endaoment.Tech, the software development firm responsible for building Endaoment’s smart-contract driven protocol.

MachineFi raised $50M in a Series A  funding round from Hashkey Capital, IOSG Ventures, Jump Crypto, Goodwater Capital, Xoogler Ventures, Wemade, DHVC (Danhua Capital).

MachineFi is a startup that encourages the gathering of real-world data from IoT devices using decentralized applications. It provides a suite of infrastructure tools including an Ethereum Virtual Machine blockchain, multi-chain crypto wallet, blockchain bridge, onboarding platform, and SDKs, to help developers create dapps and machine networks.

* fund, that lead investment round