{"id":60523,"date":"2022-04-22T16:43:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T13:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=60523"},"modified":"2025-09-05T03:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:46:19","slug":"certik-the-smart-contract-auditor-raises-60-million-from-softbank-vision-fund-and-tiger-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/certik-the-smart-contract-auditor-raises-60-million-from-softbank-vision-fund-and-tiger-global\/","title":{"rendered":"CertiK, the smart-contract auditor, raises $60 million from SoftBank Vision Fund and Tiger Global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The smart-contract security-auditing startup CertiK has raised $60 million from SoftBank Vision Fund and Tiger Global.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just two weeks since closing our B3 round of funding, here we are again sharing more exciting news! \ud83c\udf89<\/p>\n<p> We are pleased to announce an additional $60 million USD investment from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Tiger Global \ud83d\udcaa<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e0WaTbg1qS\">https:\/\/t.co\/e0WaTbg1qS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CertiK (@CertiKTech) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CertiKTech\/status\/1517497734839873537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The new funding is a continuation of the Series B3 round. In early April the startup raised<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/certik-the-smart-contract-security-auditor-raises-88-million-at-a-2-billion-valuation\"> $88 \u043c\u043b\u043d \u043f\u0440\u0438 \u043e\u0446\u0435\u043d\u043a\u0435 \u0432 $2 \u043c\u043b\u0440\u0434<\/a> from Insight Partners, Tiger Global, Advent International and other investors.<\/p>\n<p>According to the startup&#8217;s CEO Ronhuya Gu, SoftBank Vision Fund and Tiger Global became the sole participants in the additional round. For the Japanese financial conglomerate, this is its first investment in a firm focusing on smart-contract security.<\/p>\n<p>Partnership with the two investment giants will allow CertiK to forge ties with traditional companies looking to enter the Web 3.0 space.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of 2022, the amount of DeFi funds stolen from ecosystems has reached<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/crypto-industry-losses-from-hacks-reach-1-22-billion-so-far-this-year\"> $1,22 \u043c\u043b\u0440\u0434<\/a>. Notable among these were incidents involving<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ronin-the-ethereum-sidechain-hacked-attacker-siphons-625-million\"> Ronin Network<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hackers-drain-more-than-319-million-from-wormhole-cross-chain-bridge-pool\"> Wormhole<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hackers-drain-80-million-from-defi-platform-qubit-finance-pool\"> Qubit Finance<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hacker-siphons-4-3-million-from-meter-cross-chain-bridge\"> Meter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smart-contract security-auditing startup CertiK has raised $60 million from SoftBank Vision Fund and Tiger Global.<\/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":[1204,1111,1133],"class_list":["post-60523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-certik","tag-cybersecurity","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\/60523","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=60523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60524,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60523\/revisions\/60524"}],"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=60523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}