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

• Web3 Intelligence

About:

Builder of Dopamine Dapps: Gamified experience investment in decentralised finance (Defi) world

Funds Raised: $4.5m

Round: Private

Key investors: Dao Marker, Shima Capital, Gate Ventures

• Octavia

About:

Web 3 based Automous Assistant

Funds Raised: Undisclosed

Round: Strategic

Key investors: Duck Dao

• Axiom

About:

Zk platform empowering smart contract developers to build data rich on-chain applications.

Funds Raised: $20M

Round: Undisclosed

Key investors: Paradigm, Standard Crypto, Robot Ventures, Ethereal Ventures, Hasu, Ye Zhang, Haichen Shen, Alex Attalah, Sreeram Kannan, Calvin Liu, CTS, Brendan Farmer.

• Sygnum

About:

Crypto bank

Funds Raised: $40M

Round: Strategic

Key investors: Azimuth Holding, Animoca Brand

• ImgnAI

About:

Crypto Native AI generation platform

Funds Raised: $1.6M

Round: Seed

Key investors: HackVC, Dao5, Rana, Selini Capital, West Ham Capital, Motus.

• PublicAI

About:

Train to Earn platform rewards global workforce to build a Large scale Decentralised AI training Network

Funds Raised: $2M

Round: Seed

Key investors: IOBC capital, Foresight Ventures, Solana Foundation, EverState Capital

• Mesh

About:

Financial ecosystem that enables users to seamlessly move crypto between their disparate account financial account and Wallet

Funds Raised: $5M

Round: Private

Key investors: Paypal Ventures

• Infrared

About:

Liquid Staking in the context of Proof-of-Liquidity (POL)

Funds Raised: $2.5M

Round: Seed

Key investors: Synergis, NGC Ventures, Tribe Capital, Citizen X, Shima Capital, Dao5, sygnum capital, Ouroboros Capital, Decima, Oak Grove Ventures, Dorahacks, Tenzor Capital, Alex Shin, Albert Chon, Charles Lu, Mr Block, Chris Spadafora, DCF God.

• Tprotocol

About:

Blockchain RWA Aggregator

Funds Raised: Undisclosed

Round: Angel Round

Key investors: Summer Ventures, Matrixport, Spark Digital Capital.

• Forgotten playland

About:

Social Party Game

Funds Raised: $7M

Round: Private

Key investors: Merit Circle, The Spartan Group, C2 Ventures, Paper Ventures

• Gevulot

About:

Internet scale computer network for zero knowledge proof generation and verification.

Funds Raised: $6M

Round: Seed

Key investors: Variant, RockawayX, Bolt Capital, Staking Capital.

• Portal

About:

Decentralised Platform for peer to peer swapping of BTC across different blockchain.

Funds Raised: $34m

Round: Seed

Key investors: Coinbase Ventures, Arrington Capital, Okx Ventures, Gate Ventures.

• BBOX

About:

Decentralised derivatives trading platform

Funds Raised: $2.5m

Round: Presale

Key investors: Hashed, Arrington XRP capital, ConsenSys, CMS holding, Flow Traders, Manifold, Mask Network, Laser digital.

• Doubler

About:

Investment Strategy Protocol aggregating market liquidity.

Funds Raised: Undisclosed

Round: Seed

Key investors: Youbi Practical, Bixin Ventures, Mask Network, Comma3 Ventures, Continue Capital, Sanyuan Capital, Waterdrip Capital, DWF ventures, Gate labs, Formless Capital, Momentum Capital, CatcherVc.

• Puffer

About:

Decentralised and permissionless native liquid restaking protocol that combines Ethereum liquid staking with native restaking on EigenLayer.

Funds Raised: Undisclosed

Round: Strategic

Key investors: Binance Labs

• Ithaca Protocol

About:

Composable Options Protocol

Funds Raised: $2.5m

Round: Pre seed

Key investors: Cumberland, Winter Mute, Room 40 Ventures, Ghaf Capital Partners, Andrew Keys, Stan Miroshnik, Georgios Vlachos.

• Navi Protocol

About:

All in one borrowing, lending and liquid staking protocol.

Funds Raised: $2m

Round: Undisclosed

Key investors: OKX ventures, Mysten Labs, Comma3 Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Geek Cartel Capital, Coin 98 Ventures, Cetus Protocol, Maverick Protocol, ViaBTC, Assembly Partners, Gate io, Hailstones Labs, Benqui Finance, Lbank Labs.

• Squid

About:

Secure cross chain router that enables interoperability between blockchain and apps

Funds Raised: $4m

Round: Strategic

Key investors: Polychain Capital, Nomad Capital, North Island Ventures, Maelstrom, Chorus one, The Department of XYZ, Breed VC, Binary Builders, Typhon Builders, Distributed Global, Fabric Ventures, Node Capital, Chapter One

• Yet Another Company

About:

Fast trust minimized intent based solutions for Ethereum and L2s powered by multi proof storage proofs

Funds Raised: $1m

Round: Private

Key investors: Lambdaclass, C2 Ventures, Gagra Ventures.

• Reboot World

About:

Omnichain Metaverse powered by generative AI

Funds Raised: $2.5m

Round: Seed

Key investors: ZMT Capital, Eureka Capital, Dedata Technologies, Signum Capital, PAKA.

• Cube

About:

Hybrid Cryptocurrency Exchange offering a fusion of the best from traditional Finance and blockchain. It is tamper proof by design, with real time on-chain visibility, fast transactions, boundless interoperability, and advance trading interface.

Funds Raised: $12m

Round: Series A

Key investors: 6th Man Ventures, Foundation Capital, ParaFi Capital, Susquehanna Growth Equity, EverStake Capital, WWVentures, Big Brain Holdings, GSR.

• Salt Water Games

About:

It is a Web3 Gaming Studio bringing together the best of emerging technology, creativity and innovation with a track record of creating the high quality, most immersive gaming experiences where physical and virtual merge for competition, rewards, education and impact.

Funds Raised: $5.5m

Round: Seed

Key investors: Deus X, 4RC

• Velar

About:

First Perpetual DEX on Bitcoin.

Funds Raised: $3.5m

Round: Seed

Key investors: Bitcoin Startup Lab, CMS, Black Edge Capital, Samara Asset Group, GBV, Trust Machine, Cypher Capital.

• Clusters

About:

The First cross chain naming service protocol powered by layer zero

Funds Raised: $9m

Round: Seed

Key investors: Electric Capital, Arca, Variant Collab+Currency, Arrington XRP capital, Blocerrate, Palm Tree Crew, Mask Network, Coinbase Ventures, Polygon Ventures, Metastreet.

Source: Defilama