According to incomplete statistics from Odaily Star Daily, there were a total of 14 blockchain financing events announced from August 21 to August 27, both domestically and internationally. This is a decrease from the previous week's 17 events. The disclosed total financing amount is approximately $81.1 million, significantly lower than the previous week's $190 million.
Last week, the project that received the most investment was AI-driven digital human service provider Prins AI ($22 million). Ideogram AI, a generative AI tool, also attracted attention with its impressive lineup of investors.
Below are the specific financing events (Note: 1. Sorted by disclosed amount; 2. Excluding fund-raising and M&A events; 3. * denotes "traditional" companies in fields involving blockchain):
On August 21, AI-driven digital human service provider Prins AI announced the completion of a $22 million Series A+ financing. The new funds will be used to advance deep learning technology, expand the team, strengthen product development capabilities, and optimize marketing and sales efforts.
It is reported that the platform uses blockchain technology and smart contracts to record the training and application records of AI digital humans, and uses a cryptocurrency reward mechanism, allowing users to participate in AI digital human training programs. This technology has been applied in various scenarios such as radio and television media, brand marketing, e-commerce live streaming/short videos, education and entertainment, AR/VR/AI, NFT/metaverse, and more.
AI tool Ideogram AI completes $16.5 million seed round financing, led by a16z
On August 23, generative AI tool Ideogram AI announced the completion of a $16.5 million seed round financing, led by a16z and Index Ventures, with participation from Raquel Urtasun, Jeff Dean, Andrej Karpathy, AIX Ventures, and Golden Ventures.
Ideogram AI's mission is to help people become more creative through generative artificial intelligence. It is developing cutting-edge AI tools to make creative expression easy, fun, and efficient.
Open-source tool Anytype completes $13.4 million financing, led by Balderton Capital
On August 23, decentralized local peer-to-peer open-source tool Anytype announced the completion of a $13.4 million financing, led by Balderton Capital, with participation from Inflection, Square One, Script Capital, Protocol Labs, Connect Ventures, New Forge, and Foreword VC.
Nodal Power, a mining energy company, completes $13 million seed round financing
On August 22, Nodal Power completed a $13 million seed round financing to build renewable energy power plants in landfills. Nodal Power aims to reduce methane emissions from landfills by providing power to Bitcoin mining data centers.
Maple Finance completes $5 million financing, led by Tioga Capital and Blocktower Capital
On August 22, crypto lending protocol Maple Finance completed a $5 million financing, led by Tioga Capital and Blocktower Capital, with participation from GSR Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Veris Ventures, and The Spartan Group.
Maple Finance will use this round of financing to expand its lending department, Maple Direct.
On August 24, Web3 user interaction platform Raleon announced the completion of a $3.8 million financing, with participation from Blockchange, Play Ventures, Alliance DAO, and Portal Ventures. The funds will be used to help project and brand development.
On August 27, DRiP, an NFT project on the Solana blockchain, completed a $3 million seed round financing, led by Placeholder and its partner Chris Burniske, with joint leadership from 6th Man Ventures, Anagram, and Collab+Currency, and participation from Boogle Ventures, B+J Capital, Big Brain Holdings, Interlace Ventures, Solana Ventures, and ArbVision.
On August 27, according to official sources, Web3 talent and project network BuidlerDAO announced the completion of a $2 million angel round financing, led by Sequoia China Seed Fund and SevenX Ventures, with participation from Bing Ventures, M77 Ventures, DRK Lab, Gate Labs, MirrorWorld, Conflux, Nicholas Hu (PlanckerDAO), Xiao Zhang (founder of zCloak Network), Paka, Vitalbridge, Inverse Ventures, and Doc Labs.
BuidlerDAO is a project of the Sequoia China accelerator YUÈ01, and has also received invitations to settle in the Hong Kong Science Park and Cyberport.
On August 23, Web3 game developer Hungri Games announced the completion of a $1.9 million seed round financing at a valuation of $23 million, led by Bogazici Ventures, with participation from Roko Finance, Preston Labs, Triple Dragon, Erol Ozmandiraci, Oyunfor, Caglan Tanriverdi, and co-founder of The Sandbox, Sebastien Borget.
Hungri Games will use this round of financing to accelerate the development of the Web3 role-playing horse racing game Metahorse Unity.
On August 27, decentralized social project Friend3.Group received $500,000 in Pre-Seed round financing, with participation from the Turkish crypto community KoinSaati, JRR Crypto, and other institutions.
Friend3 is a decentralized application that focuses on freely priced paid groups, allowing creators to customize price curves, and supports social platforms beyond X (formerly Twitter). Compared to friend.tech, it has made multiple optimizations in Web3 login, group chat functions, price rate customization, terminal compatibility, and privacy protection.
Mina ecosystem DEX LuminaDEX completes strategic financing, with participation from Jump Crypto
On August 24, Mina ecosystem DEX LuminaDEX announced the completion of a new round of strategic financing, with participation from the Mina Foundation, Jump Crypto, BigBrain Holdings, and the O(1) Labs development team. The amount of financing has not been disclosed.
LuminaDEX achieves privacy protection support through zkSNARKs and MPC technology, supports zkKYC for compliance, and enhances scalability and resistance to MEV.
Metaverse game developer Irreverent Labs completes new round of financing, led by Samsung Next
On August 24, metaverse game developer Irreverent Labs completed a new round of financing, led by Samsung Next. The amount of financing has not been disclosed. It is reported that Irreverent Labs chose to strengthen cooperation with Samsung Next in order to have more exposure to potential clients in Samsung Next's investment portfolio.
On August 25, the Middle East and North Africa cryptocurrency exchange BitOasis completed a new round of financing, with participation from CoinDCX, Wamda Capital, and Jump Capital.
Launched in 2016, BitOasis provides cryptocurrency trading services to users in countries or regions such as the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Kuwait. In 2021, BitOasis completed a $30 million Series B financing round, led by Jump Capital and Wamda, with participation from Alameda Research, Global Founders Capital, Pantera Capital, Digital Currency Group, and NXMH.
On August 25, according to official sources, Cryptoworth, a provider of cryptocurrency accounting solutions, announced that it has completed strategic financing, led by CMT Digital, with participation from Kyber Ventures, Saison Capital, ODA Capital, and Polygon Ventures. The specific amount of financing has not been disclosed. The new financing will be used to accelerate the market expansion of Cryptoworth's enterprise digital asset accounting solutions.
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