Kraken Digital Currency Exchange Raises $5 Million in Funding
Digital currency exchange Kraken has just received a significant amount of capital - $5 million, in fact - in a funding round led by Hummingbird Ventures out of Europe. SecondMarket CEO Barry Silbert and Trace Meyer also contributed to the funding round. As one of the top-10 digital currency exchanges by volume, Kraken has gained an enormous amount of attention over the course of the past few months with their slick interface and ability to trade more than bitcoin. Other alt-currencies like litecoin, dogecoin, namecoin, and ripple can be traded on the platform. A result of their....
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Payward, Inc., the owner of US-based digital currency exchange Kraken, announced on 25th March that it has raised $5m in new capital as part of a Series A fundraising round. Kraken, first launched in September 2013, allows users to buy and sell bitcoin, namecoin, dogecoin and Ripple, among other digital currencies. The round was led by Hummingbird Ventures, an early-phase venture capital firm that has invested in digital properties like Dubai-based price comparison platform Souqalmal.com and object-based software defined storage service provider Amplidata in recent months. The funding will....
Buenbit, an Argentina based crypto exchange, has raised $11 million in a funding round. The firm plans to expand operations in Latin America. Crypto Exchange Buenbit Raises $11 Million The platform announced on Monday that it has raised $11 million in a Series A funding round led by Libertus Capital. Other members of the funding […]
Ripio, a Latin American (Latam) exchange headquartered in Argentina, raised $50 million in its latest funding round, led by Digital Currency Group (DCG). The exchange, which has a stronghold in countries like Argentina and Brazil, will use these new funds to further expand to new countries in the area and consolidate its spot as one of the pioneering companies in the crypto exchange business.
Ripio Gets $50 Million in Series B Funding Round
Ripio, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in Latam, has raised $50 million in its series B funding round, aiming to keep growing in....
Mexico’s first Bitcoin exchange, Bitso, announced that it has raised $2.5 million in venture capital. The company, founded in 2014, has now raised a total of $4.35 million, becoming the dominant cryptocurrency provider in the Latin American region. Mexico’s First Bitcoin Exchange Bitso Raises $2.5M in Series A Funding. Bitso was the first exchange that....
This piece has been updated with comment from ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees. Digital currency exchange ShapeShift.io has raised $1.6m in new funding. As reported by TechCrunch, the round drew support from Digital Currency Group, bitcoin entrepreneur Roger Ver and Bitfinex, the Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange. Bitcoin Foundation executive director Bruce Fenton, Transform PR founder and CEO Michael Terpin and Trevor Koverko, founder of education-oriented e-commerce platform eProf, also took part in the round as angel investors. The announcement comes nearly six months after ShapeShift....