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Tres raises $7.6M to help web3 teams manage their financials and crypto data

September 20, 2022 Jacquelyn Melinek 276 ViewsBitcoin, blockchain, Crypto Economy, crypto wallet, cryptocurrencies, decentralization, economy, finance, Fireblocks, Israel, Solana, Tel Aviv 2 min read

Tres, a financial “data lake” for web3 companies, has raised $7.6 million in a seed round led by boldstart ventures, its founder and CEO Tal Zackon, exclusively shared with TechCrunch. Investors include F2, The Chainsmokers’ venture fund Mantis, New Form Capital, Kenetic Capital, Blockdaemon Ventures and Alchemy. As well as angel investors like Fireblocks CEO […]

Allocations just got valued at $150M to help private equity funds lure smaller investors

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Allocations just got valued at $150M to help private equity funds lure smaller investors

September 15, 2022 Anita Ramaswamy 225 Viewsallocations, alternative investments, backstage capital, Bank, finance, financial services, Private Equity, Startups, venture capital 4 min read

Interest in alternative investments such as private equity, real estate and crypto continues to surge, and Miami-based fintech startup Allocations is riding the wave. Less than three years after its founding, the company, which provides APIs to help private fund managers streamline processes, has crossed $1 billion in assets under administration on its platform, its […]

KKR dives into Avalanche blockchain to tokenize and ‘democratize’ financial services

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KKR dives into Avalanche blockchain to tokenize and ‘democratize’ financial services

September 13, 2022 Jacquelyn Melinek 277 ViewsAvalanche, blockchain, carlos domingo, cryptocurrencies, EC Blockchain, EC Cryptocurrency, economy, finance, financial services, investment, KKR, Private Equity, retail investors, securitize, United States 1 min read

KKR & Co. is tokenizing a part of one of its private equity funds – a step that may provide institutional private market strategies to more individual investors.

Want to survive the crypto winter? Start by inspiring regulatory confidence

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Want to survive the crypto winter? Start by inspiring regulatory confidence

September 8, 2022 Ram Iyer 245 ViewsBitcoin, Column, commodity futures trading commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, cryptocurrencies, EC Blockchain, EC Column, economy, Federal Trade Commission, finance, financial regulation, initial coin offering, money, Startups, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, virtual currency, wyoming 1 min read

Today’s weather may be harsh, but the next phase of cyrpto is coming. Those who can inspire regulatory confidence will be better positioned to be on its leading edge.

Varjo, an early mover in building XR headsets and software for enterprises, taps $40M

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Varjo, an early mover in building XR headsets and software for enterprises, taps $40M

September 6, 2022 Ingrid Lunden 210 ViewsAston Martin, augmented reality, Banking, Boeing, bytedance, ceo, Companies, CTO, eqt ventures, finance, finland, Foxconn, healthcare, helsinki, here, HMD Global, HP, Kia, Lifeline Ventures, Lockheed Martin, manufacturing, Mark Zuckerberg, meta, metaverse, Microsoft, mixed reality, mobile phones, Nokia, nokia mobile phones, smartphone, technology, teleport, timo toikkanen, United States, varjo, Virtual reality, volvo, XR 5 min read

Applications in the metaverse often feel like more of a marketing gimmick than something that a critical mass of consumers would use, let alone pay for. But turn to the enterprise, and there appears to be a very lucrative opportunity that’s well into finding traction. Today, one of the early movers in building solutions for […]

Nvidia the latest collateral damage in US-China tech war

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Nvidia the latest collateral damage in US-China tech war

September 2, 2022 Rita Liao 239 ViewsAI chips, alibaba, China, chips, Companies, computing, e-commerce, electronics, finance, healthcare, Huawei, Intel, manufacturing, nvidia, russia, semiconductor, semiconductors, smartphone, U.S. government, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, United States, Video Cards, washington 3 min read

Nvidia, the world’s largest maker of artificial intelligence chips, is at the heart of a new round of U.S. tech sanctions targeting China. Nvidia noted in an SEC filing that the U.S. government had imposed new export restrictions on two of its most advanced AI chips to China, including Hong Kong, its second-largest market after […]

Daily Crunch: Embedded finance fintech Pezesha raises $11M pre-Series A equity-debt round

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Daily Crunch: Embedded finance fintech Pezesha raises $11M pre-Series A equity-debt round

August 30, 2022 Christine Hall 245 Viewscryptocurrencies, Daily Crunch, Elon Musk, Facebook, finance, Gaming, goPuff, lawsuits, social apps, Startups, Tesla, Twitter, venture capital, Y Combinator 5 min read

Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.

TechCrunch+ roundup: Gen Z VCs, choosing a GTM model, crypto crisis communication tips

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Gen Z VCs, choosing a GTM model, crypto crisis communication tips

August 30, 2022 Walter Thompson 273 Viewsandrew chan, corporate finance, crisis communications, driver, EC roundup, energy, entrepreneurship, eqt ventures, finance, George Kellerman, Laura Yao, money, Private Equity, Startups, venture capital 5 min read

To be clear: Most investors want to say “yes.” No one becomes a venture capitalist just so they can stomp on someone’s dreams.

Investment clubs are cool again, and maybe community is, too

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Investment clubs are cool again, and maybe community is, too

August 27, 2022 Anita Ramaswamy 213 Viewsben-huh, Columbus, community, EC Blockchain, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, etoro, fenwick & west, finance, Fintech, fintech startup, gatsby, group investing, initialized capital, investing, investment, meme stocks, Ohio, OrangeDAO, Private Equity, r/wallstreetbets, Reddit, retail investors, social media, social media platforms, stanford, Startups, steph mui, TikTok, Tribevest, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, venture capital, VSC Ventures, WallStreetBets, Y Combinator 0 min read

The rise of group investing is just as much about culture as it is about cash.

Polygon founder raises $50M for emerging markets-focused web3 venture fund

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Polygon founder raises $50M for emerging markets-focused web3 venture fund

August 25, 2022 Anita Ramaswamy 238 Viewsadvisor, Apps, Asia, Axie Infinity, binance labs, blockchain, China, cofounder, crypto, cryptocurrencies, dapps, developers, developing countries, economy, emerging markets, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, ethereum, fantasy sports, finance, fund, GitHub, india, money, Polygon, Sandeep Nailwal, Silicon Valley, Sky Mavis, Southeast Asia, Startup company, Startups, TechCrunch, venture, venture capital, vitalik buterin, web3, Y Combinator 5 min read

Ethereum layer-two scaling platform Polygon raised $450 million earlier this year in its first major financing round. Now, the protocol’s cofounder Sandeep Nailwal is launching another project, he told TechCrunch exclusively — this time, in the form of Symbolic Capital, a venture capital fund built by and for web3 founders. Nailwal, alongside Cere cofounder Kenzi […]