{"id":39590,"date":"2021-03-25T16:42:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T14:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39590"},"modified":"2025-08-30T10:27:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:27:52","slug":"soros-family-office-invests-in-lukka-a-crypto-data-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/soros-family-office-invests-in-lukka-a-crypto-data-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"Soros family office invests in Lukka, a crypto-data provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lukka, a provider of cryptocurrency data, has closed a $53 million Series D round. Participants include Soros Fund Management, founded by George Soros, S&#038;P Global, and CPA.com.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With this additional capital, Lukka has raised nearly $75mm in the past 12 months from Soros, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SPGlobal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SPGlobal<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateStreet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StateStreet<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CPAcom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CPAcom<\/a>  and other institutional investors.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B1IzD9n38l\">https:\/\/t.co\/B1IzD9n38l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lukka (@Lukka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lukka\/status\/1375073671153393665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>According to The Block, the company&#8217;s valuation reached $200 million.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to the publication, the company&#8217;s chief executive, Robert Materazzi, said that the funds would be used to develop existing products. They cover pricing data and tax accounting tools. Lukka works with 160 crypto funds.<\/p>\n<p>Materazzi expects further scaling of the business if the US Securities and Exchange Commission approves <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-cryptocurrency-etf\">Bitcoin ETF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>We can become partners of the administrators of these funds<\/em>, he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in December 2020, Lukka closed a Series C funding round of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sp-state-street-and-other-wall-street-giants-invest-15-million-in-lukka\">$15 million<\/a>, led by S&#038;P Global and State Street Corp.<\/p>\n<p>S&#038;P Dow Jones Indices, a unit of S&#038;P Global, announced<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sp-dow-jones-indices-to-launch-cryptocurrency-indices\"> the launch of cryptocurrency indices<\/a> this year. They will be based on Lukka&#8217;s data.<\/p>\n<p>For details on how this will affect the Bitcoin industry, read <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/how-sp-dow-joness-crypto-indices-could-transform-the-bitcoin-industry\">\u043c\u0430\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0438\u0430\u043b\u0435<\/a> ForkLog.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lukka, a provider of cryptocurrency data, closed a $53 million Series D round. Participants included Soros Fund Management, founded by George Soros, S&#038;P Global, and CPA.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2157,1616,2058,1133],"class_list":["post-39590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-george-soros","tag-index","tag-lukka","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39591,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39590\/revisions\/39591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}