Tagged: coinbase ventures

August 14, 2025 @ 9:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mesh, the  crypto payments network, announced additional investments from PayPal Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uphold, Mirana Ventures (venture partner for ByBit), SBI Investment, Overlook Ventures, Kingsway Capital, Moderne Ventures and CE-Ventures, bringing total capital funding to more than $130 million. This support positions the company to… Read More

July 21, 2025 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The cryptocurrency industry experienced a notable shift in Q2 2025, as outlined in Messari’s State of Crypto Fundraising: Q2 2025 report. Total capital raised through venture funding declined by 20% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) to $4.99 billion, marking the third consecutive quarterly drop and the lowest deal… Read More

June 22, 2024 @ 7:17 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Coinbase Ventures is among the participants in a $1.75 million pre-seed funding round for Farworld Labs, a gaming and media consortium. The round was co-led by Lemniscap and Variant, with additional participation from Base Ecosystem Fund. The funding will enable Farworld Labs to expedite the… Read More

January 27, 2024 @ 4:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Eco Inc, the crypto payments company with $95 million in funding from a16z, Coinbase Ventures, and other top technology investors, announced the acquisition of Join, a stablecoin-powered shopping app. This acquisition aligns with Eco’s vision to “create a more efficient, decentralized payment system, breaking away… Read More

September 9, 2023 @ 4:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Socket, an interoperability protocol that allows asset and data transfer across chains for decentralized applications (dapps), announced a $5 million strategic investment from Coinbase Ventures, the venture arm of one of the world’s largest crypto platforms, and Framework Ventures, a crypto-native venture capital firm known… Read More

April 30, 2023 @ 11:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The crypto lending business model has come under intense scrutiny following a spate of recent credit events. Credora is helping “rebuild confidence in credit markets through transparency, and the lending infrastructure provider announced a $6 million strategic funding round with S&P Global and Coinbase Ventures… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 4:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

WalletConnect, the web3 communications protocol company, announced that it has raised $12.5 million in an ecosystem round, “with participation from Shopify, Coinbase Ventures, ConsenSys, Circle Ventures, Polygon, Uniswap Labs Ventures, Union Square Ventures, 1kx, HashKey, Foresight Ventures, and others.” The ecosystem round “lays the groundwork… Read More

July 29, 2022 @ 4:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CLST, an institutional-only lending and borrowing venue for stablecoins and crypto assets, has closed a seed round, led by Spartan Group, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, GSR, Menai Financial Group, Luno Expeditions, a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, and TX Ventures – the… Read More

March 4, 2022 @ 9:30 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Socket (previously known as Movr Network) has announced a $5 million seed round, led by Framework Ventures, an investment adviser with significant experience in decentralized finance (DeFi) space, and with participation from a group including Coinbase Ventures, Lightspeed, eGirl Capital, Nascent, Geometry, and entrepreneur Mark… Read More

February 4, 2022 @ 3:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tribal, a B2B payments and financing platform for emerging markets, has secured $60M in Series B funding led by SoftBank Latin America Fund. Coinbase Ventures also participated in the investment round, which included contributions from existing investors BECO Capital, QED Investors, and Rising Tide. In… Read More

January 28, 2022 @ 1:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In 2017, the team at CoinTracker began “tinkering” with cryptocurrency. CoinTracker writes in a blog post that they set up accounts on several different exchanges and started using a bunch of digital wallets. The company points out that while exchanges and virtual wallets have made… Read More

January 23, 2022 @ 10:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bahrain-headquartered cryptocurrency exchange Rain Financial has secured $110 million in capital via a Series B round. Rain Financial reports that its investment round has been co-led by Paradigm and Kleiner Perkins along with contributions from Coinbase Ventures, Global Founders Capital, MEVP, Cadenza Ventures, and CMT… Read More

January 20, 2022 @ 5:16 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Folks Finance, a capital markets protocol for borrowing and lending built on the top of the Algorand blockchain, today announced the closing of its $3 million seed funding round, led by Borderless Capital with participation from a group including Jump Crypto, ParaFi Capital, Coinbase Ventures,… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 10:10 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Alto, a self-directed IRA platform for individuals seeking to invest in alternative assets using tax-advantaged retirement funds, today announced the successful close of a $40 million Series B funding round. Advance Venture Partners was the lead on this round of funding, with additional participation from… Read More

December 15, 2021 @ 2:44 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Ledn, a global digital asset savings and credit platform, today announced it successfully raised $70 million in a Series B funding round which brings its valuation to $540 million. 10T Holdings led the round while Golden Tree Asset Management, Raptor Group and FJ Labs were… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 3:44 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

X-Margin, a company applying privacy-preserving technology to credit and financial market risk, has raised $8 million in a Series A funding round where Coinbase Ventures, HashKey Capital and Spartan Group were major investors. Bixin Ventures, Miranda Ventures (Bybit), Gemini, Primitive Ventures and Kenetic Capital also… Read More

August 3, 2021 @ 11:36 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Cryptocurrency wealth platform Vauld has completed a $25 million Series A round led by Valar Ventures, a VC firm cofounded by Peter Thiel. Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, CMT Digital, Gumi Cryptos, Robert Leshner and Cadenza Capital also participated. The funding will be used to hire… Read More

July 28, 2021 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Biconomy, a multichain relayer infrastructure network and transaction platform that enables Web3.0 developers to easily build applications, has revealed that it secured $9 million in a private funding round that was led by DACM and Mechanism Capital, along with contributions from  Coinbase Ventures, Coinfund, True… Read More

July 15, 2021 @ 9:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CertiK reports that it has finalized a Series B funding round, raising more than $37 million in capital. The CertiK Family of investors continues to grow with backing from Coatue Management, Shunwei Capital, and Coinbase Ventures. As mentioned in an update shared with CI: “We… Read More

June 21, 2021 @ 7:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Augmentum Fintech plc (LSE: AUGM), the UK’s only publicly listed investment firm that’s focused on the Fintech industry, has made a $10 million (c. £7.3 million) investment into Helsinki based Tesseract Group Oy, marking Augmentum’s first investment into Finland. As noted in a release shared… Read More