Bitwala Raises €800k from Germany’s Largest VC Firm, Barry Silbert
The startup Bitwala has announced it has received €800k in seed funding for the company’s initiatives. The team says they closed its very first funding round on March 15th after already successfully bootstrapping many Bitcoin ventures by self-funding. Bitwala was founded by Jan Goslicki, Jörg von Minckwitz, and Benjamin Jones offering a way to send....
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Bitwala has announced that the company has successfully raised over 800000 euros in seed funding from the who's who of European industry. Bitwala, the bitcoin-based remittance service located in Netherlands has announced that it has successfully raised investments. Started in 2012, the company has been bootstrapping all this while until the very first fundraising round came along. In the recently concluded seed funding round, the company has raised about 800,000 euros. Bitwala is one of the leading remittance service providers with over 10,000 customers. The announcement about the closure....
Netherlands-based Bitwala, a crypto-to-SEPA service that enables fiat-currency transfers toward settlements from users who pay in bitcoin has announced the closure of its first seed funding round, raising €800k in the process. Bitcoin startup Bitwala, a Bitcoin services provider that uses its own bank account to provide fiat-currency transfers to settle payments for users who pay in bitcoin has announced the closure of its initial funding round. The funding round, closed in March and revealed today, notes that this is the very first funding round for a startup that began in 2012. Prominent....
See the announcement here. Barry Silbert sends out a teaser tweet. Founder and CEO of SecondMarket Barry Silbert, took to Twitter on Wednesday evening to tease his followers. Barry Silbert tweeted that he will be sharing some interesting news about the Bitcoin Investment Trust, the next day. Excited to share some @BitcoinTrust news tomorrow... The Bitcoin Investment Trust has received a great deal of interest since its announcement in September of last year, allowing accredited and institutional investors to be exposed to the bitcoin realm sans having to deal with buying, storing, and....
Inside Bitcoins New York will host Barry Silbert as a speaker on Day 3 of the event in a moderated “Fireside Chat”. Barry Silbert will discuss bitcoin investing, and the latest trends, changes, technologies, and companies currently shaping bitcoin. Barry Silbert has been a key leader in the rising bitcoin industry, even being selected in Fortune’s “40 under 40” in 2011, and this year has been named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young and Crain’s. He is most respected for his founding of the Digital Currency Group, SecondMarket, and the Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT)- the world’s....
Mexico-based bitcoin exchange Volabit has received $250,000 in new funding, an amount the company says will be used to further establish itself in the digital currency market. The capital comes from Bitcoin Opportunity Corp, a investment vehicle headed by SecondMarket and Bitcoin Investment Trust CEO Barry Silbert. Speaking to CoinDesk, Silbert said that he is confident Volabit can gain the users it needs to target the country's underserved consumer market, and that his firm's investment is a reflection of this belief. Silbert told CoinDesk: "Through the use of bitcoin, Volabit has the....