Japan's BitFlyer Raises $1.6 Million for Bitcoin Exchange Expansion
A former Goldman Sachs employee has raised $1.6m in funding to power a new Japan-based bitcoin exchange, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. Called bitFlyer, the exchange aspires to recapture the market position vacated by Mt. Gox, the Japan-based exchange that was once the ecosystem's largest trading platform. BitFlyer is seeking additional capital from overseas VCs and hopes to launch in markets outside of Japan before 2015, the report says. The exchange is the brainchild of 38-year-old former derivatives and convertible bonds trader Yuzo Kano, who left his job at Goldman Sachs in....
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Bitcoin exchange bitFlyer has raised approximately 510m JPY ($4m) through third-party allotment, which entails issuing new shares to a limited number of investors. According to a company statement, investors included VC firms Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co - one of Japan's largest investors - Venture Labo Investment Co and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital Co. Dentsu Digital Holdings Inc - a business management company in the digital communications market - and financial information provider Quick Corp also participated in the round. Japan-based bitFlyer said it would use the latest....
Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange bitFlyer has raised $236,000 in investment that the firm says will be used to fund additional services, as well as expansion outside Japan. BitFlyer previously raised $1.6m in July with the goal of becoming the leading player in the country's expanding bitcoin market. Notably, the latest funding was provided by Barry Silbert's Bitcoin Opportunity Corp (BOC), which has invested in a large number of bitcoin startups including Coinbase, Circle, BitPay, Safello and others. This is the first time, however, that the BOC has invested in a Japanese company. Silbert....
Leading Japanese bitcoin exchange bitFlyer has revealed the successful completion of a ¥3 billion ($27 million) funding round, the largest funding round ever by a bitcoin and Fintech company in Japan. In a funding round led by Japanese investor SBI Investment and Tokyo-based venture capital firm Venture Labo Investment, prominent Japanese digital currency exchange operator bitFlyer has raised around 3 billion yen ($27 million) in new capital. Shares were issued this week via a third-party to investors including the funds overseen by Venture Labo Investment and SBI Investment. The....
Here's some news of yet another investment in the cryptocurrency space. Bloomberg reports that Japanese bitcoin exchange BitFlyer has raised approximately 25 million yen (or about $236,000 USD) from Barry Silbert's Bitcoin Opportunity Corp. The exchange, which launched earlier this year, will use the funds to expand overseas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FZn5XwQKLY. Interestingly enough, the exchange hasn't quite decided where they're planning to plant their flag, though Singapore is likely to be a place of interest, according to Yuzo Kana, BitFlyer CEO and former Goldman Sachs trader.....