Tagged: mark cuban

October 11, 2025 @ 6:55 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Yendo, the company behind a vehicle-secured credit card, this week announced a $50 million Series B funding round. It includes investors Spice Expeditions, Autotech Ventures, FPV Ventures, Pelion Venture Partners, Mark Cuban, and Clocktower Technology Ventures. The funding will accelerate Yendo’s expansion beyond secured lending… Read More

October 18, 2023 @ 7:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Elon Musk and Mark Cuban have joined with Phillip Goldstein, Nelson Obus, Manouch Moshwayedi, and the Investor Choice Advocates Network (ICAN) in filing an Amicus brief in regard to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) court case. The case has to do with Patriot28 and… Read More

September 18, 2023 @ 8:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Mark Cuban, a noted entrepreneur and shark, had his crypto wallet hacked, according to multiple reports.  Cuban is said to have lost around $870,000 in value when the crooks pilfered his funds. Apparently, the damage could have been worse, but Cuban prevented a greater loss… 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

August 18, 2021 @ 11:07 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bitcoin’s recent movements are encouraging, GlobalBlock sales trader Marcus Sotiriou said in a recent note to investors. Sotiriou said Bitcoin has closed its first decisive week above the 20-week moving average and the 21-week EMA for the first time since it was around $57,000. It… Read More

August 11, 2021 @ 11:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis is pleased to confirm that they now cover the world’s “premiere” memecoin: Dogecoin (DOGE). Once considered “nothing more than a light-hearted joke,” Dogecoin has become one of the “world’s most popular crypto assets, thanks in part to cheerleaders like Elon Musk… Read More

June 17, 2021 @ 3:48 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Iron Finance was left to explain itself today after a “bank run” left its TITAN token worthless, leaving investors including Mark Cuban to wonder what happened. Cuban was a liquidity provider in decentralized exchange QuickSwap. He announced his participation just four days ago but has… Read More

May 2, 2021 @ 3:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Peter Mallouk, President and CEO at Creative Planning, a nationally recognized “leader” in the wealth management community, recently noted that if you purchase a hundred stocks, “odds are most go up.” Mallouk also mentioned that if you buy a hundred cryptocurrencies, “most will go to… Read More

April 8, 2021 @ 6:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Billionaire Mark Cuban-backed Nifty’s has reportedly hired Olta Andoni, an NFT copyright legal expert as its new Chief Legal Officer. Andoni will notably be the first CLO of the nascent non-fungible token or NFT-focused social media platform. Nifty’s is a fairly new online network for… Read More

March 25, 2021 @ 2:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Esprezzo, a no-code blockchain automation and data platform, announced on Thursday it raised $2 million through its latest investment round, which saw participation from Mark Cuban, Arrington Capital, Longley Capital, Rarestone Capital, CMS Holdings, LongHash, Youbi, TBD Angels, and Zag Capital. Founded in 2017, Esprezzo… Read More

March 17, 2021 @ 2:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Mark Cuban-backed NFT [Non-fungible token] marketplace Mintable is auctioning off a 1926 painting “Abstract Composition” by Wladimir Baranoff-Rossiné. Now, this is somewhat different as the actual painting, frame and all, will be purchased by the highest bidder who will also receive an NFT authentication certificate…. Read More

March 1, 2021 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Consumers have reportedly spent over $230 million purchasing and trading digital collectibles of NBA game highlights. The NBA’s Top Shot product is a blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT)-powered digital trading card system that has managed to generate more than $230m worth of gross sales,… Read More

December 13, 2019 @ 6:39 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Comments made this week by Mark Cuban, famed owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team and a regular host on Shark Tank, have ruffled the feathers of prominent Bitcoiners. Veteran Bitcoin programmer Jimmy Song tweeted to dispute Cuban’s claims that Bitcoin lacks convenience and security:… Read More

February 12, 2018 @ 10:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

Current Media closed its private sale initial coin offering raising $36 million this past week. The company claims that it had signed up 250,000 people interested in the public ICO but management has since decided to skip the public sale and do a $4 million Airdrop… Read More

January 25, 2018 @ 11:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Unikrn, an esports brand, has formed a new partnership with MAINGEAR, a top manufacturers of high-performance PC systems.  The deal will see MAINGEAR creating co-branded UnikoinGold (UKG) crypto-mining capable PCs — the MAINGEAR ACM [Advanced Crypto Miner] and MAINGEAR ACM PRO — available later this… Read More

January 19, 2018 @ 11:25 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, multi-billionaire, television personality, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, announced that the NBA team would be accepting Bitcoin as a method of payment during the 2018-2019 basketball season. Cuban revealed the exciting news when he was asked by Mavericks fans… Read More

July 18, 2017 @ 1:50 pm By Victoria Silchenko, Ph.D.  |  

This article is my attempt at providing a definitive guide to the complex, and so far, self-regulated, landscape of ICOs. Warning: mature content. What on Earth is ICO? Just as how in the ancient movie “Eyes Wide Shut” the password “fidelio” gave access to a… Read More

May 15, 2016 @ 2:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Billionaire shark and outspoken entrepreneur Mark Cuban is considering using Title IV of the JOBS Act. He sees the updated securities exemption as a huge opportunity.  Currently, most of the Mark Cuban media coverage has focused on him taking up the banner of the #nevertrump… Read More

March 9, 2016 @ 9:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Intel has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Replay Technologies. Details of the transaction were not disclosed but was reported on the Intel blog. The chatter put the purchase price at around $175 million OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved, whose firm participated in Replay Technologies Series… Read More

January 7, 2016 @ 11:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Virtuix rocketed out of the gate on SeedInvest during its Test the Waters (TTW) campaign in preparation for a Regulation A+, mini-IPO type offer.  Virtuix, creator of the Omni motion – a device that puts the movement into the hot sector of virtual reality (for… Read More