Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 28 Mar – 03 Apr 2022

This week's biggest funding round

Nova Labs raised $200M in a Series D funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Tiger Global, Deutsche Telekom (DTEGY), FTX Ventures, Seven Seven Six Ventures, Google Ventures (GV).

NOVA Labs is an Internet-of-Things developer platform for building the network and transferring IoT device data. Built on the Helium Network.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

GoodGhosting raised $1.3M in a Seed funding round from Arca Fund, DWeb3 Capital, Stake Capital, THE LAO, ZMT Capital.

GoodGhosting is a decentralized social savings app that combines game design elements with goal-based saving.

Footium raised $3.5M in a Seed funding round from Backed, Animoca Brands, Stride VC, Entrée Capital.

Footium is a Web3 Football Management game that allows players to become the owner, manager and scout for their very own football club.

Fractal raised $35M in a Seed funding round from Paradigm*, Multicoin Capital*, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Animoca Brands, Coinbase Ventures, Play Ventures, Solana Ventures, Shrug Capital, Do Kwon, Kevin Lin.

Fractal is an NFT gaming marketplace that offers numerous gaming NFTs.

Battlebound raised $4.8M in a Seed funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Dapper Labs, Play Ventures.

Web3 games developer.

DFlow raised $2M in a Seed funding round from Multicoin Capital*, Framework Ventures*, Cumberland (DRW), Parataxis Capital, Petrock Capital.

DFlow is a decentralized order flow marketplace powered by a payment-for-order-flow (PFOF) model that guarantees best-execution for retail investors and enables safe monetization for sources of retail order flow. DFlow provides a transparent and market-driven way to buy and sell order flow, ensuring fair incentives for all parties involved

Crypto Raiders raised $6M in a Seed funding round from Delphi Digital*, DeFiance Capital*, GuildFi, Merit Circle, Yield Guild Games (YGG), Three Arrows Capital.

A utility-based NFT RPG game.

zkLend raised $5M in a Seed funding round from Delphi Digital, Three Arrows Capital, Starkware, Alameda Research, Amber Group.

zkLend is an L2 money-market protocol built on StarkNet, combining zk-rollup scalability, superior transaction speed, and cost-savings with Ethereum's security.

Burrow raised $5M in a Seed funding round from Dragonfly Capital (ex Metastable Capital)*, ParaFi Capital*, Jump Crypto*, QCP Capital, Lemniscap, DeFi Capital, D1 Ventures, IOSG Ventures, Mentha Partners, SevenX Ventures, GFS Ventures, MetaWeb Ventures, Warburg Serres, Move Capital, Kronos Research.

Burrow is a decentralized, non-custodial, pool-based interest rate platform for lending and borrowing assets.

Aradena raised $2M in a Pre-seed funding round from Animoca Brands, Atesis, Double Peak Group, SkyVision Capital, Jump Crypto.

Aradena is a Play-to-Earn medieval metaverse built on Ethereum.

Cross the Ages raised $12M in a Seed funding round from Animoca Brands, Ubisoft, Polygon Ventures.

Mobile-first collectible card game set in a dystopian clash of worlds, based on seven fantasy and science fiction novels.

Blur raised $11M in a Seed funding round from Paradigm, eGirl Capital, LedgerStatus, 0xMaki, Santiago R. Santos, Zeneca, Deeze.

NFT marketplace for pro traders. Blurs mission is to move the NFT space toward becoming institutional grade.

Other investment rounds

Composable Finance raised $32M in a Series A  funding round from GSR Markets LTD, Ignite, Fundamental Labs, Coinbase Ventures, LongHash Ventures, Figment, Digital Finance Group (DFG), Blockchain Capital, 0x Ventures, Jump Capital, NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital), The Spartan Group.

Composable Finance is a cross-chain and cross-layer interoperability platform. It was developed to resolve the current problem of a lack of cohesion between different decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols.

Parallel Finance raised $5M in a Strategic  funding round from Coinbase Ventures, Starkware, Section 32.

Parallel Finance is a decentralized money market protocol that offers lending, staking, and borrowing in the Polkadot ecosystem.

Blockchain.com raised $14M in a Series D  funding round from Lightspeed.

Blockchain.com is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange established in 2012 and is registered in United Kingdom.

CoW Protocol raised $23M in a  funding round from 1kx, Delphi Digital, Dialectic, Blockchain Capital, Cherry Ventures, Collider Ventures, Ethereal Ventures, LongHash Ventures, THE LAO, Robot Ventures, SevenX Ventures, mgnr, ImToken Ventures, Hack VC, BR Capital, ATKA, P2P Capital, 0x Labs, Kronos Research.

CoW Protocol is a fully permissionless trading protocol that leverages Batch Auctions as its price finding mechanism. CoW protocol enables batch auctions to maximize liquidity via Coincidence of Wants (CoWs) in addition to tapping all available on-chain liquidity whenever needed.

LayerZero raised $135M in a Series A  funding round from Sequoia Capital*, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto)*, FTX Ventures*, Coinbase Ventures, Animoca Brands, Multicoin Capital, Tiger Global, CoinFund, Dapper Labs, Hypersphere, Gemini Frontier Fund, Ghaf Capital Partners, ImToken Ventures, Matrixport Ventures, Polygon Ventures, Uniswap Labs Ventures, Volt Capital, Zokyo Ventures, PayPal Ventures, Avalanche, cFund, Fantom Foundation, Kronos Research, Space Whale Capital, Echelon Capital, Blockdaemon Ventures, Operator Partners, MC Ventures (Muhabbit Capital), Santiago R. Santos, Stani Kulechov, Sandeep Nailwal, Roham Gharegozlou.

LayerZero is messaging protocol that allows for interoperability and facilitates seamless cross-chain messaging across countless blockchains. It provides the underlying infrastructure needed for decentralized applications (dApps) to live across multiple blockchains.

Wincast raised $675K in a  funding round from CoinFund*, BNB Chain Fund, Dream Ventures.

Wincast is an interactive NFT platform for live sports that allows users to bid, own, trade, or sell NFTs capturing their favorite moments in sports history. Through its unique and immersive experience, users can watch sporting events in real-time, bid on NFTs of live moments, and have the NFTs instantly delivered to their wallets through a dynamic minting engine.

Aptos raised undisclosed amount in a Strategic  funding round from Binance Labs Fund.

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.

* fund, that lead investment round