Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 23 – 29, Jan 2023

This week's biggest funding round

Blockstream raised $125M in a funding round from Kingsway Capital*, Fulgur Ventures.

Blockstream is the global leader in Bitcoin and timechain technology, providing Bitcoin and blockchain technology solutions for financial markets. It builds crypto-financial infrastructure based on Bitcoin.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Vest Exchange raised undisclosed amount in a Seed funding round from Jane Street*, QCP Capital*, Big Brain Holdings*, AscendEX, Builder Capital, Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC), Pear VC, Cogitent Ventures, Fugazi Labs, Moonshot Research.

Vest Exchange is a decentralized perpetual futures exchange on Arbitrum that enables users to propose and trade almost any asset.

Spatial Labs raised $10M in a Seed funding round from Blockchain Capital*, Marcy Venture Partners.

Spatial Labs is a web3 technology infrastructure and hardware company powering Augmented Reality, blockchain, Omni-channel, and immersive experiences.

Discoball raised $6M in a Seed funding round from Collab+Currency*, Patron*, Blockchange Ventures, Sfermion, Packy McCormick, Floodgate, Flamingo.

The Disco Ball is a first space-themed story universe by StoryCo - a collaborative blockchain-based storytelling platform for fans to connect, co-create, and co-own story franchise IP.

PlanetWatch raised $3.3M in a Seed funding round from Borderless Capital*, Algorand.

PlanetWatch decentralizes, incentivizes, and gamifies environmental monitoring.

Tholos raised $1.5M in a Pre-seed funding round from North Island Ventures*, Lattice Fund*, Chainforest*, Dispersion Capital*, Reverie, 369 Capital.

Tholos is a crypto wallet secured by groups that allows users to view assets, transact, and interact with dApps across all major blockchains.

Asset Reality raised $4.9M in a Seed funding round from Framework Ventures*, TechStars*, SGH Capital*.

Asset Reality is a SaaS solution for complex asset recovery.

Hatchfi raised $1.2M in a Pre-seed funding round from Delta Blockchain Fund*, Orange DAO*.

Hatchifi is the crypto integration platform bridging web2 and web3 by supercharging fintech applications with the power of their users' crypto financial data. Platform provides way for consumers to connect crypto accounts across exchanges and wallets to any app, just like an online bank account.

Calimero Network raised $8.5M in a Seed funding round from Khosla Ventures*, Lyrik Ventures*, Near Foundation*, GSR, FJ Labs, Warburg Serres.

Calimero is a London-based blockchain infrastructure company lets users deploy a customisable, easy to use private shard with built-in privacy features and confidential native WASM or EVM smart contracts. Calimero Private Shard is a customizable sidechain built on top of NEAR Protocol.

Tribes raised $3.3M in a Pre-seed funding round from Kindred Ventures*, South Park Commons*, Script Capital*.

Tribes is a Web3-native messaging and group wallet app lets people co-own and manage digital assets while communicating directly through the wallet rather than through an outside messaging service.

Other investment rounds

Senken raised $7.5M in a  funding round from Obvious Ventures*, Kraken Ventures, Offline Ventures, Climate Capital, Inflection.

Senken is an easy-to-use platform to access the largest selection of climate assets for transparent climate actions and finance.

Gemba raised $18M in a Series A  funding round from Parkway Venture Capital*.

Gemba is a software developer providing virtual reality training to corporates.

Brave group raised $2.3M in a Strategic  funding round from Animoca Brands*.

Brave group is an entertainment company that is running various businesses in the Metaverse area, such as the IP business that operates ‘RIOT MUSIC’ (virtual music production) and ‘Vspo!’ (the next-generation Virtual eSports project) and the Platform business that utilizes its own metaverse engine, ‘Brave Engine'.

QuickNode raised $60M in a Series B  funding round from 10T Holdings*, Seven Seven Six Ventures, Tiger Global, Protocol Labs, QED Investors.

QuickNode is a Web3 infrastructure platform, helping developers & businesses build, launch, and scale blockchain-powered applications (dApps).

Voldex raised undisclosed amount in a Series A  funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto)*, Lalotte Ventures, Makers Fund, POW! Interactive, Dune Ventures.

Voldex is an innovative video games studio focused on UGC (user-generated-content) owns, operates and improves several top Minecraft and Roblox games.

Fractal raised undisclosed amount in a Strategic  funding round from Polygon Ventures*.

Fractal is an NFT gaming marketplace that offers numerous gaming NFTs.

* fund, that lead investment round