Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 25 Apr – 01 May 2022

This week's biggest funding round

Argent raised $40M in a Series B funding round from Fabric Ventures, Metaplanet, Paradigm, Index Ventures, Creandum, Starkware, Jump Crypto, Animoca Brands.

Argent is the most simple and secure smart wallet for crypto. It does everything you'd expect from a bank (and more). Without the bank.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Blue Network raised $100K in a Pre-seed funding round from Outlier Ventures*.

The Blue Network offers KYC/AML trading on DeFi protocols like Uniswap and Curve. In order to trade Safe Tokens, users must first mint their BlueID by completing KYC.

InfinitySwap raised $1.5M in a Seed funding round from Polychain Capital, ParaFi Capital, Draft Ventures, Dfinity Foundation.

InfinitySwap is a next generation AMM. It's platform to create, stake and swap tokens on the Internet Computer (Dfinity).

OurSong raised $7.5M in a Seed funding round from Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC), Animoca Brands, Circle Ventures, Cherubic Ventures, FBG Capital.

Music NFT marketplace.

Apeiron raised $13.5M in a Pre-seed funding round from Hashed, DeFiance Capital, Morningstar Ventures, The Spartan Group, DeFi Capital, GuildFi, YGG SEA, SnackClub, Avocado Guild, Ancient 8, Atesis.

Apeiron is NFT-based play-and-earn adventure god game on the blockchain.

Burn Ghost raised $3.1M in a Seed funding round from DraftKings, BITKRAFT Ventures, Pillar VC.

Burn Ghost is a Web3 casual game platform in which NFTs are the prizes.

Ola Guild Games raised $8M in a Seed funding round from Galaxy Interactive, BITKRAFT Ventures, Arca Fund, com2us, HTX Ventures (ex Huobi Ventures), Spark Digital Capital, BlockTower Capital, Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC), Morningstar Ventures, Polygon Ventures, Crypto.com Capital, YGG SEA, Bitscale Capital.

Ola GG, a regionally focused partner (hispanic) of the decentralized gaming startup Yield Guild Games (YGG).

Holograph raised $6.5M in a Seed funding round from Courtside Ventures, Wave Financial, Arca Fund, Mirana Ventures, Kenetic, Avalaunch, Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC).

Holograph provides omnichain NFT infrastructure for creators, developers, and enterprises.

Snackclub raised $9M in a Seed funding round from Animoca Brands, Ascensive Assets, Formless Capital, Jump Crypto, Mechanism Capital, OP Crypto, Shima Capital, Play Ventures.

The sister company of prominent Brazilian esports organization LOUD. A new company that plans to launch a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that will reimagine "ownership in gaming."

Vertex Protocol raised $8.5M in a Seed funding round from Hack VC*, Dexterity Capital*, Jane Street, Hudson River Trading (HRT), Collab+Currency, HTX Ventures (ex Huobi Ventures), GSR Markets LTD, Big Brain Holdings.

A decentralized FX protocol for multi-currency spot and derivatives trading.

GamerGains raised $5.8M in a Seed funding round from Cadenza*, FTX Ventures, Winklevoss Capital, BlockFi, Tiger Global, Alumni Ventures (AVG), Lightbank, Shima Capital, Coin Merge Strategy (CMS), Mirana Ventures, Republic, Third Prime, Global Founders Capital (GFC).

GamerGains is the first-ever token and cryptocurrency-based play and earn platform serving traditional gamers – a community of hundreds of millions of people around the world that enjoy playing on PCs and consoles such as Xbox and PlayStation.

Tonic raised $5M in a Seed funding round from Electric Capital*, Move Capital*, Framework Ventures, Daedalus, Bixin Ventures, Jane Street, Wintermute, GSR Markets LTD, Flow Traders, Near Foundation, Cumberland (DRW), dao5 (daofive).

Tonic brings the speed and convenience of centralized exchanges to NEAR while being fully decentralized.

Other investment rounds

SO-COL raised $3M in a  funding round from Blockchain Capital*.

SO-COL (Social Collectables) is a Web3 community-centric platform that empowers creators, communities, and brands by building tools for them to leverage on improved accessibility and utility of NFTs. SO-COL is building community management and governance tools, NFT minting tools and a marketplace which allows creators and fans to sell and trade their community NFTs.

Venly raised $22M in a Series A  funding round from Courtside Ventures, Transcend Fund, Coinbase Ventures, Tioga Capital Partners.

Venly offers users of blockchain projects digital wallets to store assets with a native solution that also works on mobile devices.

Centrifuge raised $3M in a Strategic  funding round from BlockTower Capital*.

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.

Mangata Finance raised $4.2M in a Strategic  funding round from Polychain Capital*, Altonomy*, TRGC*, Signum Capital, Headline, Figment, ZMT Capital, AngelDAO, Paribus Ventures.

Easy and secure decentralized trading for Polkadot and Ethereum. The first L1 DEX blockchain without insider trading and MEV.

Yield Guild Games Southeast Asia (YGG SEA) raised $500K in a Strategic  funding round from Solana Ventures*.

YGG SEA is a sub-decentralized autonomous organization (subDAO) for acquiring and managing NFTs used in the metaverse.

Ondo Finance raised $20M in a Series A  funding round from Pantera Capital*, Founders fund*, Wintermute, Tiger Global, Steel Perlot, Golden Tree, Flow Traders, Coinbase Ventures.

Ondo Finance is an open and decentralized investment bank that enables and facilitates connection between stakeholders in the emerging DeFi ecosystem.

* fund, that lead investment round