{"id":53922,"date":"2021-12-01T17:26:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=53922"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:35:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:35:49","slug":"sequoia-capital-china-leads-certiks-80-million-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/sequoia-capital-china-leads-certiks-80-million-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Sequoia Capital China leads CertiK&#8217;s $80 million funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The smart-contract security auditing startup CertiK raised $80 million in a Series B2 funding round. It was led by Sequoia Capital China.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udf89Exciting News<\/p>\n<p>We have recently closed an $80M, Series B2 round of financial funding<\/p>\n<p>This is not only the single largest round of fundraising for a company in the blockchain security space, but now brings CertiK\u2019s total valuation to nearly $1 Billion\ud83d\udee1\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gTrPaTjhZ1\">https:\/\/t.co\/gTrPaTjhZ1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CertiK (@certik_io) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/certik_io\/status\/1466035450796290048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The round also included Tiger Global, Coatue Management and GL Ventures. Total investments exceeded $140 million, with the startup valued at nearly $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In light of the news, the price of the CertiK token (CTK) rose by more than 70% over the last 24 hours, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/\">CoinGecko<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/certik-the-smart-contract-auditor-raises-37-million\"> the startup attracted $37 million<\/a> from hedge fund Coatue Management, Shunwei Capital and the venture arm of the Bitcoin exchange Coinbase.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in August <meta charset=\"utf-8\">CertiK was backed by Tiger Global and GL Ventures in a round of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tiger-global-backs-certik-in-24m-series-b-round\">$24 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog\u2019s news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smart-contract security auditing startup CertiK raised $80 million in a Series B2 funding round. It was led by Sequoia Capital China.<\/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":[2180,1223,1133],"class_list":["post-53922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-sequoia-capital","tag-startups","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53922","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=53922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53923,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53922\/revisions\/53923"}],"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=53922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}