AI startup ElevenLabs announced the completion of a $180 million Series C funding round led by a16z and ICONIQ Growth, with participation from NEA, World Innovation Lab (WiL), Valor, Endeavor Catalyst Fund and Abu Dhabi investment firm Lunate, as well as Sequoia Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Smash Capital, SV Angel, NFDG and BroadLight Capital, valuing the round at $3.30 billion. ElevenLabs supports integrated AI agent systems, including Fetch.ai AI agent systems.
Singapore's Gulf Bank is seeking to raise at least $50 million in a funding round and plans to buy a stablecoin payments company next year, according to people familiar with the matter. The start-up bank, founded by Singapore family office Whampoa Group and licensed in Bahrain since February, is in talks with Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds and other investors to sell a stake of less than 10 percent by early 2025, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the matter is being done private...
Privacy blockchain project Nillion has raised $25 million in a funding round led by Hack VC, with Arbitrum, Worldcoin and Sei also participating. Nillion is trying to attract projects at the intersection of blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) that need to securely share and store large amounts of data. Blockchain converges with AI by attempting to decentralize ownership and leverage the data required by AI engines, preventing it from being dominated by a few centralized entities.
1. Web3 chain game Infinitar completed 9 million USD A round of financing; Layer2 network Odyssey developer Ithaca completed $20 million financing; 3. Coco Park, the TON ecological GameFi game project, completed a $800,000 financing; 4. Trendies completed a $1.75 million pre-seed round of financing, led by Archetype.
1. DeFi agreement Meridian completed a $4 million seed round of financing; 2. Daylight completed a $6 million seed round of financing, led by USV and 1kx; 3.2. Zulu Network completed the seed round financing, and Draper Dragon, CGV, etc. participated in the investment; 4. Darkbright Studios completed a $6 million seed round, led by Bitkraft Ventures.
1. carbon neutrality blockchain platform OFP completed seed round financing; 2. Derive, a derivatives trading platform, completed angel round financing, EtherFi Lianchuang and other investment; 3. People familiar with the matter: Tiger Global Management plans to participate in the OpenAI financing round; 4. People familiar with the matter: AI company Poolside is seeking nearly $500 million in financing at a valuation of $3 billion; 5. Solana on-chain mining project Ore established Regolith Labs ...
Japanese startup Sakana AI raises $100 million in Series A funding. 2. Gitcoin has partnered with Octant to launch a secondary financing (QF). 3. Encrypted social network 0xPPL completed a new round of financing, and AllianceDAO participated.
1. Nirvana Labs completed a $4 million seed round of financing; 2. The Manta Foundation announced a strategic investment in dappOS. 3. Wintermute is negotiating financing with companies such as Tencent at a valuation of about $2 billion; 4. Multi-chain DEX ZKEX completed the $2.50 million seed round financing, and distributed capital participated in the investment.
Allium, an enterprise-grade data platform, raised $16.50 million in a funding round led by Theory Ventures. Allium said it plans to use the newly raised funds to invest in data infrastructure, including providing a launch platform for Financial Institution Group looking to embrace digital assets. The company has partnered with Stripe and Visa, with Allium assisting the latter in launching the Visa Onchain Analytics Dashboard. Crypto-native customers include the Uniswap Foundation and Phantom, a ...
Tanzanian fintech startup Nala has raised $40 million in Series A funding to support its B2B payments platform called Rafiki. The oversubscribed round was led by San Francisco-based venture capital firm Acrew Capital, with participation from DST Global, Norrsken22 and HOF Capital.