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ForkLog 21 12.04.2021

In 2021, the average size of venture investments in crypto companies rose by 120%.

In the first quarter of 2021, crypto companies attracted venture-capital sums of at least $50 million twice as often as in all of 2020.

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ForkLog 13 10.04.2021

Institutional Interest in Crypto Grows as Dapper Labs Raises $305m and Blockchain.com Valued at $5.2bn

The cryptocurrency industry is attracting an increasing number of institutional players. This is reflected in new investments in infrastructure and the growing attention companies are paying to Bitcoin as an asset class. The most important events of recent weeks are in ForkLog's overview.

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ForkLog 7 07.04.2021

Draper Associates Leads $1.2 Million Seed Round for Cryptio

The Cryptio cryptocurrency accounting platform raised $1.2 million. The seed round was led by venture fund Draper Associates.

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ForkLog 15 05.04.2021

TON Labs raises $6 million from Runa Capital and RTP Global

TON Labs has raised $6 million from the venture fund Runa Capital with participation from investment firm RTP Global led by Leonid Boguslavsky, Forklog reported, citing TON Labs CEO Alexander Filatov. The round, which closed last year, also included other investors whose names are not disclosed by TON Labs. TON Labs was one of the first external companies Telegram engaged to develop the core components of the Telegram Open Network (TON). Subsequently, TON Labs became one of the two dozen organisations that launched the Free TON project based on TON code.

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ForkLog 17 04.04.2021

Crypto firms raise more venture capital in Q1 than in all of 2020

In the first quarter of 2021, venture capital funding for crypto companies totalled about $2.6 billion. That exceeded the entire previous year, when the industry attracted $2.3 billion.

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ForkLog 17 31.03.2021

ImToken’s Ethereum wallet team raises $30 million

ImToken developers, the non-custodial wallet and DApps browser with asset-management features, raised $30 million in a Series B round.

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ForkLog 12 31.03.2021

NFT marketplace SuperRare raises $9m from Mark Cuban and Samsung

The non-fungible token (NFT) platform SuperRare announced the completion of its Series A financing round, raising $9m.

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ForkLog 16 30.03.2021

Developers of the NBA Top Shot NFT platform raise $305 million from Michael Jordan and other investors

The Dapper Labs project, behind the development of a blockchain ecosystem for fast dapps, closed a financing round worth $305 million with participation from NBA stars and venture investors.

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ForkLog 11 30.03.2021

Pantera Capital Leads $6 Million Series A Round for Liquity Protocol

Liquity Protocol, a lending platform, raised $6 million in a Series A round led by Pantera Capital.

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ForkLog 10 29.03.2021

PwC: Crypto M&A volume rises to $1.1 billion

Aggregate M&A deal volume in 2020 more than doubled from the previous year, reaching $1.1 billion, Bloomberg reports, citing a PwC report.

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ForkLog 13 27.03.2021

Dragonfly Capital launches $225 million fund to back NFT and DeFi investments

Investment firm Dragonfly Capital has opened a venture fund with $225 million in capital, with Sequoia China participating as a limited strategic partner.

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ForkLog 17 26.03.2021

Chainalysis valuation tops $2 billion after another funding round

Chainalysis has raised $100 million in a Series D round, valuing the company at over $2 billion.

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