Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 24 – 30, Aug 2020

This week's biggest funding round

NEAR Protocol raised $10M in a Public sale funding round from .

NEAR is a decentralized application platform which is built atop the NEAR Protocol, a revolutionary public proof-of-stake blockchain.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Framework Labs raised $8M in a Seed funding round from Station 13.

Yellow Card Financial raised $1.5M in a Seed funding round from Polychain Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Celo Foundation.

Yellow Card Financial is a Pan-African cryptocurrency exchange.

Zapper raised $1.5M in a Seed funding round from Framework Ventures*, Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, THE LAO, Libertus Capital, MetaCartel Ventures, Coingecko, Meltem Demirors.

Zapper provides some of the most robust DeFi related data, everything from liquidity and prices on different AMMs to complex DeFi protocol balances.

Frontier raised $1.9M in a Seed funding round from Sandeep Nailwal, NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital), Coingecko, Bitcoin.com, Danish Chaudhry, FTX Ventures, Alameda Research.

Notabene raised $125K in a Seed funding round from Y Combinator*.

Bella Protocol raised $4M in a Seed funding round from Arrington Capital*, Consensus Lab, Alphabit.

Perpetual Protocol raised $1.8M in a Seed funding round from Multicoin Capital*, CMS Holdings, Alameda Research, Three Arrows Capital.

Other investment rounds

DODO raised undisclosed amount in a Strategic  funding round from DeFiance Capital, SevenX Ventures, Jason Choi, Alexander Pack, MapleLeafCap.

UpBots raised $1.1M in a Strategic  funding round from CMS Holdings, Taureon, Alameda Research.

Acala Network raised $7M in a Series A  funding round from Pantera Capital*, CoinFund, Arrington Capital, CMS Holdings, ParaFi Capital, KR1 plc, Hypersphere, 1confirmation, Altonomy, The Spartan Group, Zee Prime Capital, Divergence, Polychain Capital, SNZ Holding.

Acala’s all-in-one DeFi platform to helps stake, swap, borrow, lend, earn, and more – all with micro gas fees.

Billon Group raised $2.4M in a Strategic  funding round from UK Government’s Future Fund.

Public com raised undisclosed amount in a Angel  funding round from .

ConsenSys raised undisclosed amount in a  funding round from J.P. Morgan Asset Management*.

ConsenSys builds Ethereum blockchain infrastructure and applications ranging from developer tools to enterprise solutions.

CCFOX raised undisclosed amount in a Series A  funding round from LD Capital, Quest Capital, Consensus Lab, SuperChain Capital.

OIN Finance raised undisclosed amount in a Strategic  funding round from CMS Holdings, FBG Capital, Ruby Capital, Signum Capital, Waterdrip Capital, Blockwater Capital, Alameda Research, FTX Ventures.

* fund, that lead investment round