Tagged: incubator

March 10, 2024 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, has invested in seven top-performing projects from the sixth season of its Incubation program. The 2-month incubator which “commenced in December 2023, is designed to empower early-stage founders offering 1:1 mentorship from the Binance Labs… Read More

January 31, 2024 @ 10:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, has invested in Puffer, a decentralized and permissionless native liquid restaking protocol (nLRP) that combines Ethereum liquid staking with native restaking on EigenLayer. The invested funds will be used “to develop Puffer’s open-source technologies, its… Read More

November 16, 2023 @ 5:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance (which is being sued by US regulators for a wide range of issues along with facing major operational challenges globally) has reportedly invested in $ARKM, the native token of Arkham. Arkham is an AI-powered blockchain… Read More

October 17, 2023 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, which is being sued by US regulators for a wide range of issues while also dealing with major operational challenges, has invested in Initia, a network designed for highly interwoven modular rollups. The platform enables… Read More

October 15, 2023 @ 2:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Neo contributes almost $8M HKD to nurture start-up projects and foster the development of Hong Kong’s Web3 industry. Winners from Neo’s APAC Hackathon will join “an accelerator program alongside candidates from Hong Kong’s leading Web3 developer base.” Neo, the open-source, community-driven blockchain platform where developers… Read More

September 4, 2023 @ 9:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Keyrock, a digital asset market maker, is announcing the selection of eight web3 and Fintech startups for the 1st edition of its acceleration program in partnership with Tenity, a prominent global accelerator and incubator for fintech. The first edition of Keyrock’s Accelerator Program will “start… Read More

August 26, 2023 @ 11:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

11 early-stage startups from 7 countries (3 from Switzerland, 3 from Germany) have been selected for the upcoming Tenity Incubation Program starting “on August 28th, 2023, in Switzerland” Selected startups reportedly receive “an initial CHF50k investment from the Tenity Incubation Fund II.” The fund will… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 11:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, has invested in Delphinus Lab, an infrastructure provider that has implemented the first known open-source zkWASM virtual machine that supports trustless computation and application SDKs. zkWASM technology enables developers “to craft zero-knowledge (ZK) applications using… Read More

August 12, 2023 @ 11:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, has committed 10 Million USD to Helio Protocol, a project “combining over-collateralized lending of its native decentralized stablecoin, HAY, with staking-as-a-service (StaaS) and LSDfi infrastructure, with approximately combined 300 million USD in total value locked… Read More

August 1, 2023 @ 11:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Qatar FinTech Hub (QFTH), founded by Qatar Development Bank (QDB), has announced the final list of FinTech Startups to join Wave 5 of its Incubator and Accelerator Programs. The series is part of QDB’s efforts “to support startups in their entrepreneurial journey through various programs… Read More

July 22, 2023 @ 3:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, has invested in Radiant Capital, a lending and borrowing protocol built atop Binance Labs portfolio company, LayerZero Labs, and focused on “bridging fragmented liquidity across decentralized finance ecosystems.” This strategic funding round “emphasizes Binance Labs’… Read More

June 29, 2023 @ 7:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance (which has been sued by US regulators for a wide range of issues), continues to support the growth of the DeFi sector and has participated in a strategic funding round for Maverick Protocol, a DeFi… Read More

June 20, 2023 @ 11:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, which has been sued by US regulatory authorities and faces a wide range of regulatory/operational challenges, has made an investment in the five “best-performing” projects of Season 5 of its Incubation Program. More than 900… Read More

June 7, 2023 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sella is launching the “Artificial Intelligence Business Incubator”, which is described as the the initiative aimed at startups, researchers, entrepreneurial teams, university spin-offs and companies “with projects based on AI technologies in the financial services sector.” “Artificial Intelligence Business Incubator” is currently underway, the international… Read More

December 9, 2022 @ 12:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital, innovation and incubation arm of Binance, is pleased “to announce that it is leading a private round II for GoPlus Security.” GoPlus Security claims it is “a leading Web3 security infrastructure provider that covers most of the major blockchain networks… Read More

November 11, 2022 @ 3:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital arm and accelerator of Binance, has “selected 12 top-performing projects for season 5 of its accelerator program.” The new season “officially kicked off on November 7.” The biannual and “chain-agnostic” Binance Labs Incubation Program “offers a 8-week curriculum tailored to… Read More

July 21, 2022 @ 11:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

AQRU plc, an incubator specializing in decentralized finance (DeFi), announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Accru Finance Ltd., has entered into a partnership with Sweden’s crypto company Quickbit eu AB (publ), in order to “bring its yield generating products to a wider audience.” Quickbit is… Read More

May 31, 2021 @ 2:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

F10, a leading Fintech startup incubator and accelerator program, has teamed up with Seoul Fintech Lab which is supported by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and K accelerator, a Fintech support center headquartered in Seoul. Through the partnership, both organizations will aim to expand their incubation… Read More

May 29, 2021 @ 8:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Baloise, a Swiss insurance holding firm, has introduced its mobility accelerator with the goal of supporting innovative projects launched by early-stage startups under the new tagline Mobility@Baloise. This latest initiative from Baloise (in Switzerland) has come as the company launches its information platform, which has… Read More

January 21, 2021 @ 4:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Plaid announced on Thursday it has launched FinRise, an incubator program to empower early-stage entrepreneurs that are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color. “During an internal hackathon, Plaiderdays, last summer, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, a group of us got together to… Read More