Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 25 – 31, Jul 2022

This week's biggest funding round

Aptos raised $150M in a Series A funding round from FTX Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Jump Crypto, Multicoin Capital, Franklin Templeton, Griffin Gaming Partners, Circle Ventures, Alameda Research.

Aptos is a Layer 1 blockchain on a mission to help people achieve universal and fair access to decentralized assets in a safe and scalable way.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

CLST raised undisclosed amount in a Seed funding round from The Spartan Group, Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, GSR Markets LTD, Menai Financial Group.

CLST Markets is a peer to peer lending and borrowing venue for professional traders and treasuries, looking to generate yields on excess liquidity or borrow digital assets with flexible terms.

Alchemon raised $1M in a Seed funding round from Borderless Capital, Pillar VC.

Alchemon is play-to-earn blockchain-based card game on Algorand incorporating NFTs and giving them a purpose due to their utility.

Center raised $11M in a Seed funding round from Founders fund, Thrive Capital.

Center is a non-fungible token indexing company.

Space and Time raised $10M in a Seed funding round from Framework Ventures, Digital Currency Group (DCG), Stratos Technologies, Samsung Next, IOSG Ventures, Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance).

Space and Time is a decentralized data warehouse for blockchain applications.

Quasar raised $6M in a Seed funding round from Polychain Capital*, Blockchain Capital*, Figment.

Quasar is a decentralized peer-to-peer gateway to IBC-enabled yield generation which solves liquidity, capital aggregation and volume inefficiencies through a single solution. It will serve as the premier hub that allows Liquidity providers (LPs) to provide capital and aggregate yield through active management across the Cosmos ecosystem controlled by Quasar Token holders.

DSCVR raised $9M in a Seed funding round from Polychain Capital, Shima Capital.

DSCVR is a decentralized social content platform that belongs to its community.

Mighty Action Heroes raised $10M in a Seed funding round from Framework Ventures*, Mirana Ventures, Sfermion, The Spartan Group, Dune Ventures, Sanctor Capital, Folius Ventures, Polygon Ventures, Ancient 8, Play future fund, Razer, Avocado Guild, DWeb3 Capital, Everblue Management, Great South Gate (GSG).

A multiplayer third-person web3 Arena Battler with an emphasis on fun, skill, and chaos.

STFX raised $2M in a Seed funding round from eGirl Capital, LedgerPrime, Space Whale Capital.

STFX is a DeFi and SocialFi protocol for short-term asset management. STFX are pioneering a concept of STFs — Single Trade Funds — short duration, non-custodial, actively managed vaults that are dedicated to one trade.

Other investment rounds

Sweatcoin raised $13M in a  funding round from The Spartan Group, Electric Capital, OKX Ventures (ex OKEx Blockdream Ventures), Goodwater Capital, GSR Markets LTD.

Sweatcoin is a free app which rewards your daily steps with a new-generation currency you can spend on cool products, donate to charity or convert into SWEAT.

E4C: Final Salvation raised undisclosed amount in a  funding round from The Spartan Group*, M13*, 6th Man Ventures (6MV), AXIA8 Ventures, Krypital Group, Red Building Capital, Clearvue Partnetrs, Paris Hilton.

E4C: Final Salvation is set to become the first mobile MOBA game in the Web3 game field to incorporate eSports into its gameplay. Created by Ambrus Studio.

Topl raised $15M in a Series A  funding round from Mercury Fund, Republic, Cryptology AG.

The Topl Blockchain is built for tracking, tokenizing, and monetizing positive impact. It consumes 10 million times less energy than earlier blockchain.

Unstoppable Domains raised $65M in a Series A  funding round from Pantera Capital, Alchemy Ventures, The Spartan Group, Polygon Ventures, CoinDCX, Coingecko.

Unstoppable Domains is a firm building out digital identity markers as non-fungible tokens.

Naoris Protocol raised $11.5M in a  funding round from Draper Associates, Holt Xchange.

Naoris Protocol is a novel cybersecurity network that utilizes a mesh-based decentralized validator structure and AI-based risk management. It supplements existing cybersecurity defense systems by providing real-time sharing of threat information and intelligence.

reNFT raised $5M in a Strategic  funding round from Mechanism Capital*, gumi Cryptos Capital*, Gemini Frontier Fund, The Sandbox, OpenSea, Sfermion, Morningstar Ventures, OP Crypto, Fourth Revolution Capital (4RC), Animoca Brands, Genblock Capital, Daedalus, GuildFi, Lattice Fund, LongHash Ventures, SkyVision Capital, Sparkle Ventures, Dragonfly Capital, Emoote.

NFT rental protocol. The reNFT vision is to bring any asset that has a rentable use case whether in the digital or physical realm on-chain as an NFT for trustless, secure, and quick rentability.

Kima raised $1M in a  funding round from Blockchange Ventures*, Big Brain Holdings.

Kima is the fintech fixing DeFi's interoperability problem. Its dApp-agnostic protocol for universal liquidity unites fragmented blockchains and assets to create a new financial reality.

Meow raised $22M in a Series A  funding round from Tiger Global, QED Investors, FTX Ventures.

Meow is the compliant crypto yield offering for corporate treasuries.

* fund, that lead investment round