Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 24 – 30, Oct 2022

This week's biggest funding round

Reap raised $40M in a Series A funding round from Acorn Pacific Ventures*, Arcadia Funds*, Hashkey Capital*, Hustle Fund.

Reap's online payments platform enables small businesses to pay expenses and collect revenue – anyone, anywhere – entirely via credit card. Reap aims to facilitate payments between Web3 projects and traditional businesses.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Martian raised $3M in a Pre-seed funding round from Race Capital, FTX Ventures, Aptos Labs, Superscrypt, Jump Crypto.

Martian wallet is a crypto wallet that can be used to manage digital assets and access decentralized applications on the Aptos blockchain.

Cryptosat raised $3M in a Seed funding round from Inflection, GoAhead Ventures, DoraHacks, Protocol Labs.

Cryptosat is the startup which is developing a Trusted Execution Environment for use in space and builds satellites that power blockchain and crypto applications. Company is leveraging the most secure root-of-trust in space to build trusted oracles and a space-based blockchain.

Kollider raised $2.4M in a Seed funding round from Lemniscap, Castle Island Ventures, Polychain Capital, Alameda Research, OKX Ventures (ex OKEx Blockdream Ventures).

Kollider is a bitcoin derivatives exchange. Kollider refers to its core product as “the world’s first Lightning-native derivatives exchange.” The company is also working on bitcoin-backed synthetic stablecoins and a Lightning-enabled bitcoin wallet.

Teleport raised $9M in a Seed funding round from Foundation Capital, 6th Man Ventures (6MV), Steve Vassallo, Thomas Bailey, Josh Mohrer.

Teleport is a web3 protocol for ridesharing that is owned and governed by its drivers, passengers, and builders. Developed by the Decentralized Engineering Corporation (DEC).

Notebook raised $3.3M in a Seed funding round from Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), Y Combinator, Soma Capital, NFX.

Notebook is a zero-knowledge identity protocol that enables Web3 protocols to create Sybil-Resistant login whilst protecting their users' anonymity.

Spice Finance raised $1.7M in a Pre-seed funding round from Shima Capital*, Protofund, Big Brain Holdings, Delta Blockchain Fund, NxGen.

Spice Finance is an aggregator and liquidity routing protocol for NFT lending marketplaces.

Hexens raised $4.2M in a Seed funding round from IOSG Ventures, Delta Blockchain Fund, Chapter One, Hash Capital, ImToken Ventures, Tenzor Capital.

Hexens is a cybersecurity boutique and blockchain startup aims to develop and implement new security standard, bringing Web3 mass adoption.

Thala Labs raised $6M in a Seed funding round from ParaFi Capital, White Star Capital, Shima Capital, Beco Capital, LedgerPrime, Saison Capital, Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC), Kenetic, Big Brain Holdings, Signum Capital, Qredo.

Thala is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol native to the Aptos blockchain. The protocol revolves around two key products: Move Dollar and Thala Swap.

Arf raised $13M in a Seed funding round from Circle Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Solana Ventures, FTX Ventures, Stellar Development Foundation, United Overseas Bank (UOB), Signum Capital, NGC Ventures, Blockchain Founders Fund.

Arf is the VQF-regulated global settlement banking platform using Web3 technologies.

Synota raised $3M in a Seed funding round from Ego Death Capital, Hivemind Ventures, Trammell Venture Partners, Rev1 Ventures.

Synota is a Bitcoin technology startup that wants to bring energy payments to Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. Synota integrates existing hardware and software products currently used by the energy industry with Bitcoin's Lightning Network.

Sealance raised undisclosed amount in a Seed funding round from Galaxy Digital, Ribbit Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Gemini Frontier Fund, Jump Capital, Luno Expeditions.

Sealance is a blockchain-based trust platform for privacy, identity and compliance, based on advanced mathematics, cryptography, and zero-knowledge proofs.

Ancilia raised undisclosed amount in a Pre-seed funding round from Binance Labs Fund.

Ancilia is a cybersecurity partner for web3 that provides automated and real-time threat detection and prevention software-as-a-service (SaaS) products, powered by its proprietary behavior analysis technology.

Other investment rounds

Origami raised $6.2M in a  funding round from Bloomberg Beta, Protocol Labs, Balaji Srinivasan, Orange DAO.

Origami supports all aspects of launching and running a DAO, including native token minting or creation, operational software, documents and the smart contracts needed for a project.

Fun raised $3.9M in a  funding round from Jam Fund, Soma Ventures, Nomo Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital.

Fun is a blockchain software development company that leverages new blockchain technology, in partnership with Odsy Network, to build cross-chain wallet infrastructure, provides foundational components for new wallet APIs & protocols.

Zoop raised $15M in a  funding round from .

Zoop is a digital collectibles trading platform that allows users to buy, sell, collect and trade 3D digital playing cards of their favorite celebrities.

Exclusible raised $5M in a  funding round from Dan Holzmann, Tioga Capital Partners.

Exclusible is a Web3 premium e-retailer for digital collectible assets in the luxury sector. The company works with luxury brands to develop their web3 offerings, including creating NFTs for clients.

Wave raised $5M in a  funding round from Stellar Development Foundation.

Wave is an African mobile money app that expanding access for users to deposit, withdraw, pay merchants and pay bills for free, and send money more affordably.

Paragraph raised $1.7M in a  funding round from Lemniscap, FTX Ventures, Binance Labs Fund, Global Coin Research (GCR), Seed Club Ventures, Sfermion.

Paragraph is a Web3 publishing platform that helps web3 writers, DAOs and NFT communities monetize their content through an all-in-one newsletter service.

* fund, that lead investment round