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Welcome to May folks! Last month we saw $1.6B flow into Digital Asset projects; about the same we saw last month. The biggest raise last month was Former Ethereum miner CoreWeave raising $221M in Series B.
Total: $962.6M
31 - $274M
- Blockchain firm raises $25M to develop third-generation architecture (Cointelegraph | Coindesk | Finbold)
- PayPal Ventures Leads $52M Round for Crypto Firm Magic (Coindesk | Cointelegraph | TB)
- StepStone VC Raises $97M for Two Blockchain Funds (Coindesk)
- Venture Capital Firm Tribe Capital Targets $100M for Latest Crypto Fund (Coindesk)
25 - $5M
- Hong Kong Asset Manager Metalpha Secures $5M from Bitmain for Grayscale-Based Fund (Coindesk)
23 - $47.4M
- Num Finance Raises $1.5M, Will Expand Stablecoins in Latin America, Middle East (Coindesk)
- Multicoin Leads $2.3M FastLane VC Deal, Continuing Its Bet on MEV Infrastructure (Coindesk)
- LabDAO Raises $3.6M to Decentralize Drug Discovery (Coindesk)
- Ripple Invests in $40M Decentralized Infrastructure Fund (UToday)
19 - $211M
- Miami blockchain folk hero secures $5M for community tokenization (Coindesk)
- Twitter Co-founder Dorsey Leads $6M Investment in Bitcoin Voucher Service (Blockworks)
- Hong Kong’s HashKey targets $1 billion valuation in raise of $100-200M: Bloomberg (TB | Coindesk)
18 -$50M
- Borderless Capital Leads Wormhole-Powered $50M Cross-Chain Fund (Coindesk | Cointelegraph)
17 - $7M
- Airstack Raises Over $7M for AI-Backed Web3 Developer Platform (Coindesk)
16 - $174M
- Asymmetry Finance Joins Liquid Ethereum Staking Market With Latest $3M Raise (Decrypt | Coindesk)
- Red Beard Ventures Closes $25M Funding Round With Animoca Brands, SuperRare (Coindesk)
- Bitcoin Miner Cormint Raises $30M Series A to Build Texas Data Center (Coindesk)
- Bitcoin services startup River Financial secures $35M from Peter Thiel, others (TB | Cointelegraph | BM | Coindesk)
- Bitcoin Miner Marathon Digital-Linked Startup Auradine Raises $81M (Coindesk | TB)
14 -$115M
- Worldcoin Crypto Project: OpenAI CEO Targets $115M Funding (BIC | Cointelegraph | TB | Coindesk)
11 -$11.7M
- Smart-Contract Registry Cookbook Raises $2M to Create Web3 Developer Support Tools (Coindesk)
- Artizen Fund Raises $2.2M to Create NFT Cultural Artifacts (Decrypt)
- Decentralized Wallet Developer Odsy Network Raises $7.5M at $250M Valuation (Coindesk)
10 - $21M
- Pudgy Penguins secures $9M months after CEO denied raising money, called notion ‘fake news’ (TB)
- Blockworks Raises $12M at $135M Valuation (Blockworks)
09 - $7M
- Zero-Knowledge Privacy Startup Webb Protocol Raises $7M (Cointelegraph)
04 - $24M
- Alchemy Ventures Backs $4M Round for NFT Platform Vibe (Coindesk)
- Fuse blockchain pledges $10M for ecosystem development (Cointelegraph)
- Coinbase Ventures Backs $10M ZkLink Raise Ahead of Mainnet Launch (Coindesk)
03 - $15.5M
- New Crypto VC Firm Credibly Neutral Raises $5.5M (Coindesk)
- South Korean Publisher Neowiz Launches $10M Polygon Game Accelerator (Decrypt)
Other News
- Crypto Companies Raised $2.6B in Q1 2023 But There’s a Catch (CryptoPotato)