This week witnessed robust fundraising efforts, particularly with substantial capital raises, especially amidst the crypto market surge. Several highlighted deals underscore this trend.

• Artifact

About:

Artifact’s Universal Player Profile is a cross-game profile that allows you to connect all networks you play on.

Players accumulate XP and advance levels through the integration of their data, fostering a robust player profile. This progression unlocks social functionalities and enables players to ascend leaderboards, earning prized in-game items along the way.

Artifact’s mission is to make gaming rewarding for everyone involved. The universal player profile is built around discovery, rewards, monetization, and data for players, studios, and advertisers.

The project has team members who have worked for king studios, Amazon, Warner Bros, brex, Activision Microsoft, EA and more

Funds Raised: $2m

Round: Pre-Seed

Key investors: RW3 Ventures, IOSG Ventures, Raptor Group, Cypher Capital, Hercules Dao

Website: https://www.gotartifact.com

• Saga

About:

Saga, a protocol aimed at helping crypto game developers launch their own blockchains. Saga is centered around building an Innovators community, expanding its multiverse and building together. The team is lead by Rebecca Liao

Funds Raised: $5m

Round: Seed+

Key investor: Placeholder

Website: https://www.saga.xyz

• Panoptic

About:

Panoptic is a perpetual, oracle free options protocol.

The platform is tailored for Uniswap liquidity providers, perpetual traders, options traders and Panoptimist (online community who value innovative advancements in blockchain, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), and financial instruments)

Funds Raised: $7m

Round: Seed+

Key investors: Greenfield Capital,HashKey, gumi Cryptos Capital, L1 Digital, Heartcore capital, comma3 ventures, zee capital

Website: https://panoptic.xyz

• OMTrade

About:

OM Trade is an elite crypto copy trading tool and exchange which supports over 200+ trading pairs.

Funds Raised: $6m

Round: Seed

Key investors: Find Satoshi Lab, Stepn, Folius Ventures, Incuba alpha, meteorite labs, KSK Angel funds

Website: https://h5.omtrade.com/welcome

• Privy

About:

Privy is an authentication,authorization and data control tool built to onboard all of web 3 users with or without a Wallet. It offers embedded wallets for users who sign in with email or social, reliable link connectors and 24/7 reliability and security.

Funds Raised: $18m

Round: Series A

Key investors: Paradigm, Sequoia Capital, BlueYard Capital, Archetype, Justin Waldron, Ben Leventhal, Dan Romero, James Prestwich, Tarun Chithra, Linda Xie, Patricio Worthhalter, Cooper Turkey.

Website: https://www.privy.io

• IntentX

About:

IntentX is an OTC perpetuals DEX built on base. So far intentX has generated a trading volume of $60 million + with 5610+ trades and 1389+ unique users.

Funds Raised: $2.5m

Round: Seed

Key investors: Magnus Capital, Agnostic, Prismatic Capital, Contango Digital Assets, Castle Capital, Coral Capital, Ms2 Capital, Symmio, Blocmates, The roll up.

Website: https://intentx.io

• Blast

About:

Blast is an ethereum Layer 2 with native yield for ETH and stablecoins. It has a current TVL of $488 million.

Blast achieves its mission by Auto Rebasing, L1 Staking and Enabling T-bill Yield

Blast promises Airdrop for early access members.

Funds Raised: $20m

Round: Private

Key investors: Paradigm, Standard Crypto, Jez, Andrew Kang, Hasu, Footbar, Santiago R Santos, Larry Cermak, Hsaka, CL207, degenspartan, Loomdart, Bywassie, Evanss6, Manifold Trading, Gainzy, keyboard Monkey, Jandx, Brentsketit, icebergy, naniXBT, Cole

Website: https://blast.io/en

• Vistara Labs

About:

Vistara is building a Hardware Availability Layer for the modular web aiming to democratize access to decentralized hardware, designed from the ground up for the needs of developers. It is bridging the gap between traditional cloud services and decentralized aspirations, by offering a platform that virtualizes distributed systems. It offers a familiar developer environment with the unparalleled benefits of decentralization.

Vistara is offering The Decentralized Hypervisor, Hardware Orchestration, Diverse Trust Mechanisms, A Global Reach

Funds Raised: Undisclosed

Round: Pre - Seed

Key investors: D1 ventures, Factor

Website: https://docs.vistara.dev

• Expanso

About:

Expanso is a Decentralized Computer platform offering Decentralized Nodes for orchestration & execution where failures are fixed by the network and requires less permissioning with that platform keeping records, auditing & storing.

Expanso introduces a fresh approach to security and infrastructure by relying on minimal hardware instead of the hefty investments seen in traditional solutions. Its software integrates seamlessly with your current devices, reducing costs and bolstering data security by adding extra layers of protection without straining your resources.

Expanso simplifies data governance through its streamlined architecture, enabling easy management and control of data flows without compromising functionality. With Expanso, you retain complete control over your data, ensuring adherence to your governance policies. Additionally, by minimizing data transfers, we mitigate risks linked to data movement.

Expanso allows users to have all the flexibility of a global cloud platform, while still keeping your data on your premises. By deploying jobs and ML models directly to where data originates and resides, it remains securely within your environment. We operate on the principle of “compute over data,” ensuring that your sensitive information stays firmly under your control.

Funds Raised: $7.5m

Round: Seed

Key investors: General Catalyst, Hetz Ventures

Website: https://www.expanso.io

• Matr1x Fire

About:

Matr1x Fire is an NFT gaming company offering the first FPS Mobile Game in the Metaverse

It currently has a global team with 8+ yrs in gaming & blockchain, 10+ mega games, $3B+ project flow, 100M active users.

Matr1x Fire is a combo of Unique NFT and game Ecosystem.

Funds Raised: $10m

Round: Series A2

Key investors: Folius Ventures, SevenX Ventures, ABCDE, Find Satoshi Lab, Initiate capital, Jambo Technology, Hashkey Capital, AmberGroups, 7upDAO

Website: https://www.matr1x.io

Source: Defilama