Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 22 – 28, Feb 2021

This week's biggest funding round

Anchorage Digital raised $80M in a Series C funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Blockchain Capital, Lux Capital, SCB 10X.

Anchorage Digital is a global regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated digital asset financial services and infrastructure solutions.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Star Atlas raised undisclosed amount in a Pre-seed funding round from Megala Ventures, CryptoViet Ventures, Bixin Ventures, NxGen.

Star Atlas is a virtual gaming metaverse set in the year 2620, where three major factions vie for resources and control: humankind, a consortium of alien races, and sentient androids. This next-gen metaverse combines state-of-the-art blockchain, real-time graphics, and decentralized financial technologies, offering a unique gaming experience blending traditional core game mechanics with blockchain innovations.

AntiMatter raised $150K in a Seed funding round from NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital)*, Spark Digital Capital, Monday Capital, Morningstar Ventures.

Antimatter is an innovative lightweight on-chain and cross-chain DeFi perpetual options protocol based on a polarized token mechanism.

Other investment rounds

AntiMatter raised $50K in a Public sale  funding round from .

Antimatter is an innovative lightweight on-chain and cross-chain DeFi perpetual options protocol based on a polarized token mechanism.

Sorare raised $50M in a Series A  funding round from Benchmark*, Accel, Fabric Ventures, Gary Vaynerchuk.

Sorare is a fantasy football emulator built on NFT cards based on the Ethereum cryptocurrency. It provides digital soccer collectibles in collaboration with big-name teams.

NFTfi raised $890K in a  funding round from CoinFund, 1kx, Collab+Currency, Maven 11 Capital, THE LAO, Animoca Brands, Roham Gharegozlou, Sebastien Borget.

NFTfi is an NFT lending protocol that allows NFT holders to leverage their digital assets as collateral to borrow cryptocurrency. Users can list their NFTs, receive loan offers from other users, accept the best offer, and, upon repayment, automatically retrieve their NFTs in a secure, transparent, and non-custodial manner. The platform operates on Ethereum, offers fixed loan terms, and charges borrowers a 0% fee, providing a secure solution for unlocking financial opportunities tied to valuable NFTs.

AC Milan Fan Token raised $1M in a Public sale  funding round from .

A fan token for AC Milan football club on Chiliz Chain.

Mask Network raised $2.9M in a Public sale  funding round from .

Mask Network is a decentralized portal that allows users to seamlessly send encrypted messages.

Yield (Protocol) raised $200K in a Public sale  funding round from .

Yield Protocol is an open source platform allowing anybody to create and execute yield farming & trading strategies on the Ethereum Defi ecosystem. Yield Protocol is designed to minimize smart contract risk by simplifying the abilities of each contract.

Optimism raised $25M in a Series A  funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Paradigm, IDEO CoLab Ventures.

Optimism is a Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum that can support all of Ethereum's Dapps. Instead of running all computation and data on the Ethereum network, Optimism puts all transaction data on-chain and runs computation off-chain, increasing Ethereum's transactions per second and decreasing transaction fees.

Centrifuge raised $4.3M in a  funding round from Galaxy Digital, IOSG Ventures, FinTech Collective, Moonwhale Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, TRGC, Hash Capital, NxGen.

The untapped multi-trillion dollar market of real-world assets (RWA) is now entering Decentralized Finance (DeFi) through Centrifuge: the first protocol to connect DeFi to the real-world.

* fund, that lead investment round