August 9, 2020
The blockchain landscape is constantly reshaping itself as new companies emerge daily, those established strengthen their positions, the industry matures and investors dedicate more capital to see the greater ecosystem.
Last month, I began a new monthly series highlighting the recent investments made throughout the landscape. Later this month in August, I’ll be going further in-depth from the recent activity, use cases, and all investment activity analyzed through Q3 2020. We’re currently at the beginning of a new fundraising cycle this year and looking towards the past this will be a trend for the next three years ahead. Get ready! More on this topic in another article, first let’s get to the investments made during July 2020.
During July we did not see any M&A activity within the landscape, however, we continued to see significant investments in core infrastructure, Layer-2 solutions, DeFi, and FinTech. Here’s the full list:
Polkadot, $43M, investors include: various/ICO
Robinhood, $320M, investors include:IVP, TSG Consumer Partner
Chainalysis, $13M, investors include: Ribbit Capital (lead), Sound Ventures (lead)A General Strategy on How to Select a Crypto Fund, Part 1Digital assets, as a new asset class, exhibit interesting characteristics that could benefit a diversified portfolio of…cointelegraph.com
Bitcoin Suisse, $48.9M, investors include: Roger Studer
Metaco, $17M, investors include: Giesecke+Devrient (lead), Avaloq, Investiere, SICPA,, Standard Chartered Bank, Swiss Post, Swisscom, Zürcher Kantonalbank
Curv, $23M, investors include: CommerzVentures (lead), Coinbase Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Digital Garage Lab Fund, Team8
Quant Network, investors include: Alpha Sigma Capital
Radix DLT, $4.1M, investors include: LocalGlobe (lead), Taavet Hinrikus
Circulor, investors include: Plug & Play, SYSTEMIQ, Total Carbon Neutrality Ventures, Volvo Cars Tech FundGrowth at Any Cost: It’s Time for the Current VC Model to ChangeShocking as it may sound, the venture capital industry is built on the idea that it doesn’t really matter if most of…cointelegraph.com
Valid Network, $8M, investors include: Ten Eleven Ventures (lead), Jerusalem Venture Partners
Evertas, $2.8M, investors include: Morgan Creek Capital Management (lead), Kailash Ventures, Plug and Play, RenGen Labs, Vy Capital, Wavemaker Genesis
Aave, $3M, investors include: Framework Venture Partners, Three Arrows Capital
Zap, $3.5M, investors include: Greenoaks Capital Management (lead), Morgan Creek Capital Management
Everledger, $7M, investors include: Tencent, U.K. Government’s Coronavirus Future Fund
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