Edition #111 - 23 JUL 2024
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gaming developments
Footprint: beginner's guide to SHRAPNEL: the AAA blockchain shooter game.
F2P football game Soccerverse raised $3.1M in a funding round led by SQUARE ENIX, with participation from Hiro Capital.
Cyberpunk video game ecosystem Pixelverse raised $2M in a funding round from Galaxy Interactive, CRIT Ventures, Arcthecommunity (ARC), Mike Dudas.
Game developer behind 1v1 dueling game Duel Arena Cambria raised $2.5M in a Seed funding round led by BITKRAFT Ventures, 1kx, with participation from Hype.eth, Tom Shaughnessy, Bharat Krymo.
Web3 gamers community platform Oh Gamers raised $3M in a Seed funding round from AXIA8 Ventures.
Web3 gaming infrastructure startup NPC Labs raised $18M in a Seed funding round led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Makers Fund, Hashed, Collab+Currency, Sfermion, Mirana Ventures, Bitscale Capital, Mantle Network.
metaverses & AI
DEX data AI aggregation system Aidatify raised $8.3M in a funding round from Stix, Alter Global, Spencer Ventures.
Sentient closes $85M seed round for open-source AI.
Iconic AI raises $4M for AI game development.
Decentralized AI agentic workflow network Questflow raised $1.5M in a Angel funding round led by MiraclePlus, with participation from PAKA.
Decentralized AI infrastructure platform Mira raised $9M in a Seed funding round led by BITKRAFT Ventures, Framework Ventures, with participation from Accel, Mechanism Capital, Folius Ventures, MH Ventures, SALT fund, Symbolic Capital (ex Hyperedge Capital), Velocity Capital, Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal, Tekin Salimi, Prabhakar Reddy, Alex Svanevik.
defi
Lending and DeFi hub on Blast Pac Finance raised $1M in a funding round led by Manifold, Mapleblock Capital, with participation from Polychain Capital.
DeFi liquidity infrastructure Sumer.Money raised $2M in a Strategic funding round from Pantera Capital, Ant Capital (a&t), Sanctor Capital, Blockwall, ROK Capital, Waterdrip Capital, Kernel Ventures, AngelDAO, Sandeep Nailwal.
Unified CeFi and DeFi portfolio management platform Haruko raised $6M in a Series A funding round led by White Star Capital, MMC Ventures.
Ordinal lending platform Liquidium raised $2.75M in a Seed funding round from Wise3 Ventures, Portal Ventures, Asymmetric fund, AGE Crypto Asset Investment Fund, NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital), Coin Merge Strategy (CMS), Newman Capital, dingaling, Beanie.
funding rounds
Blockchain payment network Partior raised $60M in a Series B funding round led by Peak XV Partners (ex as Sequoia India & South East Asia), with participation from Valor Capital Group, Jump Trading, Standard Chartered Bank, Temasek, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
SocialFi platform RECRD raised $4M in a Seed funding round led by Sui Foundation, with participation from DNA Fund, Alphabit.
Web3 identity startup Carv raised $35M in a nodes sale.
Blockchain data network Chainbase raised $15M in a Series A funding round led by Tencent Holdings, Matrix Partners China, with participation from Folius Ventures, Hash Global, Jsquare, Mask Network, Bodl Ventures.
Enterprise blockchain data platform Allium raised $16.5M in a Series A funding round led by Theory VC, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Amplify Partners.
