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​​Binance Labs raises a $500 million fund

Edition #87 - 20 NOV 2023


Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of crypto exchange Binance, has raised a new $500 million fund to back web3 projects. Backers of the fund include DST Global Partners, Breyer Capital and unnamed private equity funds, family offices and corporations as limited partners.




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metaverses & AI

  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​AI-powered crypto intelligence platform for transparent market insights Arkham closed funding round led by Binance Labs Fund. Amount raised is not disclosed.

  • ​​Korean blockchain-based K-pop startup Modhaus raised $8M in a Series A funding round led by Sfermion, with participation from SM Culture Partners, Laguna Investment, KDDI Open Innovation Fund III (KOIF III), Foresight Ventures.


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funding rounds

  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Cryptocurrency Venture Capital Firm Foresight Ventures acquires majority stake in leading information services firm The Block, valuing the firm at $70 million.

  • ​​Centralized cryptocurrency exchange BlockchainCom raised $110M in a Series E funding round led by Kingsway Capital, with participation from Baillie Gifford, Lakestar, Lightspeed, Coinbase Ventures.

  • ​​Web3 messaging and social platform Beoble raised $2M in a Pre-seed funding round led by Digital Currency Group (DCG), Samsung Next, with participation from Hashkey Capital, Genesis Block Ventures Capital (GBV), Tokenbay Capital, Momentum 6 (M6).

  • First KYC'd layer-2 blockchain Kinto raised $3.5M funding round led by Kyber Capital, The Spartan Group, ParaFi Capital, with participation from SkyBridge Capital, Kraynos Capital, Deep Ventures, Modular Capital, Tane, Robot Ventures, Santiago R. Santos, Alex Klokus.

  • ​​Asset management firm Superstate raised $14M in a Series A funding round led by Distributed Global, CoinFund, with participation from Breyer Capital, Galaxy Digital, Arrington Capital, Road Capital, CMT Digital, Folius Ventures, Nascent, Hack VC, Modular Capital, Department of XYZ.

 


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