Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 26 Sep – 02 Oct 2022

This week's biggest funding round

Strike raised $80M in a Series B funding round from Ten31, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Wyoming.

Strike is the digital payment provider built on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Bitquery raised $8.5M in a Seed funding round from Binance Labs Fund, SIG DTI (a Susquehanna International Group Company), DHVC (Danhua Capital), INCE Capital.

Bitquery is a ​​blockchain data company that offers a full set of APIs and analytics tools to democratize data access and solve pain points associated with on-chain data.

Minteo raised $4.3M in a Seed funding round from Fabric Ventures, Dune Ventures, CMT Digital, SIG DTI (a Susquehanna International Group Company), SevenX Ventures, FJ Labs, Big Brain Holdings, Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance), Zero Knowledge Validator (ZKV).

Minteo is a Latin American-based NFT marketplace.

Solvo raised $3.5M in a Seed funding round from Index Ventures, CoinFund, FJ Labs.

Solvo is a ​​consumer-friendly crypto investment app.

Eclipse raised $9M in a Seed funding round from Tribe Capital, Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC), Soma Capital, Struck Capital, CoinList.

Eclipse is a customizable rollup provider that is compatible with multiple layer-1 blockchains. The platform enables developers to deploy their own rollup powered by the Solana operating system, using any chain for security or data storage.

Krypton raised $7M in a Seed funding round from Framework Ventures, Samsung Next, GSR Markets LTD, Foresight Ventures.

Krypton is the decentralized exchange. To power its matching engine, Krypton uses Chainlink’s Decentralized Oracle Network (DON). It can take complicated computations off-chain, lowering costs for traders.

Re raised $14M in a Seed funding round from Tribe Capital, Stratos Technologies, Framework Ventures, Morgan Creek Capital.

Re is a blockchain-powered reinsurance protocol.

Eclipse raised $6M in a Pre-seed funding round from Polychain Capital, Tribe Capital, Polygon Ventures, Accel.

Eclipse is a customizable rollup provider that is compatible with multiple layer-1 blockchains. The platform enables developers to deploy their own rollup powered by the Solana operating system, using any chain for security or data storage.

Other investment rounds

Blowfish raised $11.8M in a  funding round from Paradigm, Dragonfly Capital, Uniswap Labs Ventures, Hypersphere, 0x Labs.

Blowfish is the firewall technology created to empower and protect Web3 users by identifying malicious transactions in real time.

Tactic raised $11M in a  funding round from FTX Ventures, Lux Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Founders fund, Elad Gil.

Tactic is a Web3 cryptocurrency accounting firm.

AIKON raised $10M in a Series A  funding round from Morgan Creek Capital.

Aikon is a multi-chain onboarding platform. It aims to accelerate blockchain adoption with simple onboarding solutions for business and consumers. Aikon is built on the Open Rights Exchange (ORE) network and is powered by the ORE token.

Aptos raised undisclosed amount in a Strategic  funding round from Dragonfly Capital.

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.

Aspen Creek Digital Corp. (ACDC) raised $8M in a Series A  funding round from Galaxy Digital, Polychain Capital.

Aspen Creek Digital Corp. (ACDC) is a new solar powered bitcoin miner.

Space and Time raised $20M in a Strategic  funding round from M12, Framework Ventures, Polygon Ventures, Avalanche, SevenX Ventures, CoinDCX, HashKey Group, Mysten Labs, Fellows Fund, Stratos Technologies.

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

TokenScript Project (ex AlchemyNFT) raised $6M in a  funding round from Hash Global, Fenbushi Capital, MH Ventures, SNZ Holding, Signum Capital, United Overseas Bank (UOB).

TokenScript is a JavaScript/WebAssembly/XML framework to improve functionality, security and usability of blockchain tokens in a myriad of ways.

Harpie raised $4.5M in a  funding round from Dragonfly Capital, Coinbase Ventures, OpenSea.

Harpie is an on-chain firewall provider.

MPCH raised $40M in a Series A  funding round from Liberty City Ventures, QCP Capital, LedgerPrime, Animoca Brands.

MPCH dramatically extends what’s possible with MPC technology. Utilising cutting edge technology, bringing best practice across the security and crypto world. Multi-party computation (MPC) enables multiple parties to collectively come together to do a computation without ever revealing the private data each holds.

Backpack raised $20M in a Strategic  funding round from FTX Ventures, Jump Crypto, Multicoin Capital, Anagram, K5 Global.

Backpack is a wallet for executable non-fungible tokens (xNFT) created by ​​Solana-based developer Coral.

AQUA raised $10M in a  funding round from DIGITAL (Steve Cohen).

AQUA is a Web3 community platform for gamers, has launched its flagship marketplace for trading in-game assets.

OneKey raised $20M in a Series A  funding round from Dragonfly Capital*, Ribbit Capital*, Coinbase Ventures, Framework Ventures, Sky9 Capital, Folius Ventures, Ethereal Ventures, Santiago Santos.

OneKey is a decentralized multichain cryptocurrency hardware wallet. Currently, OneKey product line is rich, including OneKey Swap, Onekey desktop , Onekey browser extension and Onekey app.

* fund, that lead investment round