VC Funding

AI Investment Heats Up Across Food, Fitness, Fashion, and Finance

AI Investment Heats Up Across Food, Fitness, Fashion, and Finance

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly revolutionizing nearly every sector, garnering immense investment and inspiring innovation across fields. Looking at how funds were raised in recent funding rounds tells a different story. AI applications are finally starting to address real-world challenges in very mature markets such as food, fitness, fashion and...

Aspora Secures $50 Million to Expand Banking Solutions for Indian Diaspora

Aspora Secures $50 Million to Expand Banking Solutions for Indian Diaspora

>Aspora, a fintech startup founded with offices in India and the US, has closed a $50 million Series B funding round. Sequoia and Greylock co-led the investment, with participation from Hummingbird, Quantum Light Ventures, and Y Combinator. The funding round currently values Aspora at $500 million and brings its total...

Vietnam's 2026 Digital Law to Integrate Cryptocurrency into Legal Framework

Vietnam's 2026 Digital Law to Integrate Cryptocurrency into Legal Framework

Vietnam will implement its new Law on Digital Technology Industry starting on January 1, 2026. This decision represents an important advance in the regulation of the digital economy and the introduction of cryptocurrency into the legal system of the country’s economy. This complex piece of legislation is the first of...

AI Innovation Drives Startup Ecosystems Amidst Funding Slowdown

AI Innovation Drives Startup Ecosystems Amidst Funding Slowdown

The combined value of startup ecosystems across the globe fell drastically. This was the first time since 2020 that total value of these ecosystems shrank. Artificial intelligence AI has remained the most influential force, redefining the entire field of transportation. Despite this contraction and a broader funding winter, it produces...

BlockDAG Achieves $304 Million Milestone Through Public Presale, Bypassing Venture Capital

BlockDAG Achieves $304 Million Milestone Through Public Presale, Bypassing Venture Capital

BlockDAG has reached a remarkable milestone, raising $304 million with its public presale. This landmark achievement is a testament to the project’s overwhelming grassroots community support. It highlights its unique approach to cryptocurrency distribution, making it different from most other blockchain projects. That the project succeeded without ever taking in...

JPMorgan Sees Favorable Crypto Regulation Boosting IPOs and VC Funding

JPMorgan Sees Favorable Crypto Regulation Boosting IPOs and VC Funding

According to JPMorgan analysts, increased regulatory clarity in the U.S. is fueling optimism among crypto companies. Consequently, these firms are today all the rage for IPOs and magnetizing VC. This makes for a real possibility that 2023 could see as many crypto IPOs as the previous bull market of 2021....

BlockDAG's $303 Million Presale Fuels 500x Potential, Mining Ecosystem Takes Shape

BlockDAG's $303 Million Presale Fuels 500x Potential, Mining Ecosystem Takes Shape

BlockDAG is becoming known as THE people-powered blockchain solution, raising over $303 million in its record-setting presale. The project has already presold 22.6 billion BDAG coins. It has further onboarded more than 2m other compatible users outside of the renewable energy space worldwide, with its free-to-use, X1 mobile miner application....

Crypto Companies Secure Millions in Funding Rounds

Crypto Companies Secure Millions in Funding Rounds

Several crypto-focused companies have recently announced successful funding rounds, securing significant capital for future growth and development. Investors are looking at all stages, from pre-seed to Series B. This trend illustrates their continued commitment to the digital asset space.Filling out that trio of new programs, SonicLabs is out of the...

AI and Cybersecurity Firms Lead Week's Funding Frenzy

AI and Cybersecurity Firms Lead Week's Funding Frenzy

This week, $1.75 billion went into the artificial intelligence and cybersecurity sectors – each one of them. Not familiar with Future Fuel Industrial Scale Manufacturing Facility? Glean, Scale AI, Canary Technologies, Laurel, Meter, Cyera, and Gecko Robotics all made impressive investment rounds. This trend reflects a remarkable level of investor...

Crypto Firms Eye Public Markets as Regulatory Winds Shift, JPMorgan Reports

Crypto Firms Eye Public Markets as Regulatory Winds Shift, JPMorgan Reports

What’s more, a big wave of crypto companies are lining up for IPOs this year. Instead, pretty familiar names, as Ripple, Kraken, ConsenSys and Bullish are one of them. JPMorgan analysts warned this IPO boom could be a sign that the market is becoming more bullish, like it was in...

Further Reading

Crypto's $150M Funding: AI & Infrastructure Lead the Charge

Why $150M Crypto Funding Signals a New Era for Asian Startups

Crypto's $150M Secret: Is DeFi's Revival Finally Here?

TON's Open Platform Hits Unicorn Status: What It Means for Web3

Why Telegram's Billion-Dollar Bet Could Reshape Asian Crypto Adoption

The Open Platform Secures $28.5 Million to Broaden Web3 Integration on Telegram

TON's Billion-Dollar Valuation A Bubble? 3 Data Points You Must Know

BlockDAG: The Web3 Crypto Set to Dominate 2025?